irreticent@lemmy.world to Gif Recipes@lemmy.world · 3 months agoNot Your Grandma's Brussels Sproutsi.imgur.comexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up128arrow-down12
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minus-squareNuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoThat’s cause Brussel sprouts were bitter tasting ass in grandma’s day. They have literally been made to taste better in our lifetime.
minus-squareSturgiesYrFaselinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoBy the heroic efforts of a Dutch scientist that was sick of people hating brussel sprouts…well… That’s my headcannon anyway. In the 1990s, Dutch scientist Hans van Doorn identified the chemicals that make Brussels sprouts bitter: sinigrin and progoitrin.[11] This enabled Dutch seed companies to cross-breed archived low-bitterness varieties with modern high-yield varieties, over time producing a significant increase in the popularity of the vegetable.[12]
minus-squarepickman_model@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 months agoOooooo I owe a lot to Hans van Doorn… I hated brussel sprouts so much when I was a child, I thought it was because I always had them boiled. So modern ones are yummier than they used to.
minus-squareNuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 months agoAt first I read his name as Hans Van Doom. Much cooler
That’s cause Brussel sprouts were bitter tasting ass in grandma’s day. They have literally been made to taste better in our lifetime.
By the heroic efforts of a Dutch scientist that was sick of people hating brussel sprouts…well… That’s my headcannon anyway.
In the 1990s, Dutch scientist Hans van Doorn identified the chemicals that make Brussels sprouts bitter: sinigrin and progoitrin.[11] This enabled Dutch seed companies to cross-breed archived low-bitterness varieties with modern high-yield varieties, over time producing a significant increase in the popularity of the vegetable.[12]
Oooooo I owe a lot to Hans van Doorn… I hated brussel sprouts so much when I was a child, I thought it was because I always had them boiled. So modern ones are yummier than they used to.
At first I read his name as Hans Van Doom. Much cooler