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welcome to the cotkey ride home for thursday, June 24th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. The growing

attempts to put flavor back into our produce, because yes, apparently it left. An update on the

lumber industry and what it could mean for the economy overall.

And the surprisingly strange things astronauts have done with their dirty laundry,

plus the introduction of NASA Tide.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

I knew that a ton of work was being done in the food engineering world to diversify and modify our produce to various ends,

but what I didn't know is that the fruits and vegetables we buy at the store have been slowly getting less and less flavorful,

and that there's now a push to bring the flavor back.

Franco Fubini, founder of Fruit and Vegetable Supplier, Natura, told the BBC, quote,

supermarkets started demanding that varieties have a longer shelf life.

So, for example, in the case of a tomato, it has a thicker skin, so the skins don't split

more easily, a tomato that perhaps ripens faster that can absorb more water.

So over time, you breed your varieties for attributes other than flavor.

The flavor attribute starts falling in importance, and as nature has it, if you breed

for other traits, you breed out flavor.

End quote. So now many

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