Lettuce for diabetics.
Genetically modified lettuce has the insulin genome. This salad will help people with diabetes. These people are forced to constantly inject insulin with injections. Antidiabetic lettuce brings "implanted" insulin directly into the human intestine. Thanks to this, the body starts the mechanism of producing its own insulin.
Colorful carrots.
A multicolored carrot is shown - pink, yellow, red. But its main advantage is not in color. Everyone knows that calcium is not absorbed in the body without vitamin C. This genetically modified colored carrot allows you to absorb 40% more calcium.
Graisin is a giant raisin, gizum is a giant raisin.
By the name "gizum" you can not understand what was done to poor grapes. And it was made simply gigantic. Japanese scientists have decided that trifle is not necessary. Ate one berry - and full. The taste of raisins remained the same, but the size ...
But plants are not necessarily derived from improved qualities. Scientists cross different kinds of plants, vegetables, fruits.
Graydarin.
This new citrus combined grapefruit and mandarin. Now there is no problem, if you do not know what you want more sweet or refreshing-bitter. Scientists have tried to glory. Juicy, sweet with a small aftertaste of bitterness, the fruit is rich in fiber and vitamin C.
Vinogryablo.
And how do you get a genetically modified product - a wine cellar, or if you prefer an apple tree. Genetics combined apple and grapes - got grapple. Outwardly, this fruit is completely similar to an apple, but the flesh and peel of grape. The taste of this miracle of fruit is a combination of both. This hybrid is already freely available in stores. If you need a product rich in vitamin C - buy a wine cellar.
Pluto - the sembricot.
Another miracle of genetics is a hybrid of plum and apricot. Conditionally it is called a pluto - sludice. This fruit differs from its parents in that it does not contain sodium and cholesterol. This fragrant fruit has a unique taste and contains a large amount of vitamin C.
Limodor.
Genetics sometimes put experiments that do not bring any practical benefit. It is this experience that is a genetically modified product lemato - limodor. Of course, a lemon, crossed with a tomato is hard to imagine, but such a miracle already exists.
After reading about such miracles of genetics, an old anecdote pops up in memory:
Crossed Michurinians cherry with watermelon. The deduced cherry very much reminds a water-melon. But the size is not so - cherry is small. And the color is not the same - it's blue. And the taste is not the same - the cherry is sour. Similarity in the number of bones.
There is no limit to the imagination of man. The novelties described are only a small part of experiments on the genetic modification of food products. Not yet such miracles of genetics await us in the future.
Olga Stolyarova , specially for the site