Bananas ecuador gmo. List of GMOs - genetically modified foods. Now about specific products

28.08.2023

Much has been written about GMOs. Negative and positive. But I was touched by this phrase, read on the Internet: “There are no reliable methods for determining the consequences of the spread of GMOs and their products for nature and humans. Many of the negative effects of GMOs will only show up over generations.” This is a quote from a report that was written for Vladimir Putin four years ago. It was prepared by the committee of the Federation Council on agrarian and food policy.

So...

The impact on plant genetics is the same impact on nature, only more profound than the impact on the environment.
The use of such products in food cannot carry an improvement in the genetics of the consumer of this product. Simply because the current knowledge of genetics is only destructive, like that of small children who love to poke around in complex toys. As a small child can take apart an alarm clock and 'study' it with interest, but assemble, and even more so improve, he can only 'put it in a bag'.
The idea of the danger of GMOs by ordinary citizens is blunted. Most people do not think about it at all: some due to lack of attention to this topic, and some due to poor awareness.
It is important to understand that for those people who think about their descendants, it is useful to exclude all GMO products from the diet ... out of harm's way ... Take care of your children.
I think today it is no longer a secret to anyone that genetically modified foods are dangerous to the health of people and all living organisms on the planet. They have a particularly negative effect on the immune and genitourinary systems. The immune system is responsible for resistance to pathogenic bacteria and viruses, and the genitourinary system is responsible for the continuation of the Exclamation genus.
The influence of GMOs has not yet been fully studied, but there is a danger that they can lead to the complete death of all living organisms on the planet.
Alien DNA, entering the human body with food, is absorbed from the intestines into the blood, and from there it is able to penetrate into any cell of the body and change (mutate) its DNA. In addition, according to research data, the transgene has a strong resistance to antibiotics.

GMO - genetically modified foods:

List of genetically modified foods:

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are being developed as biological weapons, a means of curbing population growth, and a means of undermining the food security of nations.

So first on the list:

Lipton tea

Nescafe coffee

modified coffee now actively grown by the Nescafe company. So far, vast plantations of such coffee are grown only in Vietnam.

List of GMOs:

Manufacturing company Unilever

Lipton(tea)

Brooke Bond(tea)

Conversation(tea)

Calve(mayonnaise, ketchup)

Rama(oil)

donut(margarine)

Delmi(mayonnaise, yogurt, margarine)

Algida(ice cream)

Knorr(seasoning)

Manufacturing company Nestle

Nescafe(coffee and milk)

Maggie(soups, broths, mayonnaise, seasonings, mashed potatoes)

Nestle(chocolate)

Nestea(tea)

Nesquik(cocoa)

Manufacturing company Kellogg's

Corn Flakes (flakes)

Frosted Flakes (flakes)

Rice Krispies (cereal)

Corn Pops (flakes)

Smacks (flakes)

Froot Loops (colored flakes)

Apple Jacks (apple flavored cereal rings)

All-bran Apple Cinnamon/ Blueberry

Chocolate Chip (chocolate chips)

Pop Tarts (stuffed cookies, all flavors)

Nutri-grain (filled toast, all types)

Crispix (cookies)

Smart Start (flakes)

All-Bran (cereal)

Just Right Fruit & Nut (cereal)

Honey Crunch Corn Flakes (flakes)

Raisin Bran Crunch (cereal)

Cracklin' Oat Bran (cereal)

Manufacturing company Hershey's

Toblerone (chocolate, all kinds)

Mini Kisses (candy)

kit-kat(chocolate bar)

Kisses (candy)

Semi-Sweet Baking Chips (cookies)

Milk Chocolate Chips (cookies)

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups (peanut butter)

Special Dark (dark chocolate)

Milk Chocolate (milk chocolate)

Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup)

Special Dark Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup)

Strawberry Syrop (strawberry syrup)

Manufacturing company Mars

Snickers

milky way

Crunch(chocolate rice cereal)

Milk Chocolate Nestle(chocolate)

Nesquik(chocolate drink)

Cadbury(Cadbury/Hersey's)

Fruit & Nut

Company - manufacturer Heinz

Ketchup (regular & no salt) (ketchup)

Chili Sauce (Chili sauce)

Heinz 57 Steak Sauce (meat sauce)

Manufacturing company Hellman's

Real Mayonnaise (mayonnaise)

Light Mayonnaise (mayonnaise)

Low-Fat Mayonnaise (mayonnaise)

Manufacturing company Coca Cola

Coca Cola

Cherry Coca

Minute Maid Orange

Minute Maid Grape

Manufacturing company PepsiCo

Pepsi Cherries

Mountain Dew

Frito-Lay/ PepsiCo (GM components may be present in oil and other ingredients)

Lays Potato Chips (all)(chips )

Cheetos(all) (chips)

Manufacturing company Cadbury/Schweppes

Dr. Pepper

Pringles Manufacturing Company (Procter & Gamble)

Pringles(flavored chips Original, Low Fat, Pizza-licious, Sour Cream & Onion, Salt & Vinegar, Cheezeums)

Honeycan be collected from genetically modified plants.

There is a high frequency of information that bees cannot pollinate genetically modified buckwheat. So, there is one.

Rice.In general, it is better to buy not anonymous varieties of plant products, but quite specific ones. For example, Basmati rice. There is a high probability that in this case the product will not be GMO.

Anonymous rice, as well as Chinese or Taiwanese, is most likely transgenic.

Russia is one of the main importers of this product from China. However, according to environmentalists, the Chinese have been producing GM rice unofficially and exporting it for two years now.

The fact that genetically modified rice is illegally grown in China was reported by environmentalists in April. “In the spring of 2005, Greenpeace took samples of rice obtained from Chinese suppliers, farmers and millers for genetic testing at the German Genescan laboratory,” Greenpeace Russia spokeswoman Maya Kolikova told NI. – It turned out that more than 2/3 of the samples (19 out of 25) were genetically modified.

When interviewing farmers and grain suppliers from China, we found out that for more than two years, transgenic rice has been illegally grown and actively sold both domestically and abroad.”

The situation, according to environmentalists, is aggravated by the fact that the Chinese government is considering the possibility of legalizing the industrial production of GM rice. The Greens believe that the Russians will suffer the most from the actions of the Chinese authorities - deliveries of the product from this country account for more than 60% of all our rice imports.

However, in this case there are not only minuses, but also pluses. Indeed, until now, rice supplied to Russia was formally considered unmodified, and no checks were made for the content of GMI in it. Therefore, no one can say how many transgenes we have already eaten and will eat again. If the consumer has information about where the rice comes from, he will be able to decide for himself whether to buy this product or not.

Environmentalists, however, see the problem not so much in the cereal itself, which can really be abandoned, but in the distribution of products with the addition of rice flour, including many children's products - milk formulas and cereals, noodles, semi-finished products. Manufacturers, as a rule, do not indicate the country where the ingredients come from.

I would like to point out that "Indica", a term found on rice packs, is not the original name of any variety. It just means long grain rice. It may also be from China.

Attention! Signs of transgenic fruits and vegetables.

Is it possible to distinguish modified fruits and vegetables from natural ones?

Too clean, little different from each other potato tubers or perfectly shaped tomatoes - a reason to think. After all, a sure sign of natural natural products is the presence in the total mass of “eaten” by insects and rotten specimens. GM foods are never eaten by insects! If you cut a natural tomato or strawberry, they will immediately give juice, unnatural ones retain their shape.

The most famous products containing GM ingredients:

(according to Greenpeace)

1. Snickers chocolate bars

2. Pepsi

3. Maggi spices

4 Pringles

Vegetable stalls are littered"Volgograd" tomatoesorami like twins similar to Turkish ones. It turns out that in Volgograd for several years only imported "plastic" varieties without taste and smell have been grown on a mass scale.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if they turn out to be GMOs. I stopped buying tomatoes of these varieties, and I rarely bought them before.

From the article by E. Yakusheva “What are transgenic products?”:

Now 90% of transgenic food exports are corn and soy. Popcorn, which is sold everywhere on the streets, is 100% made from GM corn, and is still not labeled accordingly. Soy products from North America or Argentina are 80% GM products.

GM foods are attractive to retailers. For example, genetically modified vegetables and fruits are 4-5 times cheaper than their natural counterparts.

From the book of Liniza Zhuvanovna Zhalpanova:

"Foods That Are Killing You":

Transgenic products are purchased by Russia in other countries with the permission of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the Russian Federation. According to statistics, about 70% of imported products are made from genetically modified raw materials. Such products include: soy products, flour, chocolate, chocolate bars, wine, baby food, milk powder, milk, kefir, yogurt, cottage cheese, carbonated drinks, canned corn and tomatoes, corn oil, biscuits, starch, soy protein, soy oil, soy sauce, lecithin, cottonseed oil, syrups, tomato sauces, coffee and coffee drinks, popcorn, breakfast cereals, etc.

It is assumed that part of imported beer also contains genetically modified molecules taken over by the modified yeast drink.

According to the National Association for Genetic Safety, about 1/3 of all products on the Russian market contain genetically modified components.

Greenpeace handbook "How to avoid the use of products with genetically modified ingredients (GM products)?"

You can from here, from the Greenpeace website

The directory contains lists of food enterprises divided into three categories (green, orange and red lists) according to the criterion of the presence of GM components in products.

The New Year's menu often includes canned store-bought vegetables. But canned corn and green peas highly undesirable. They are GMO.

According to a month and a half study, our food is simply crammed with genetically modified organisms. Moreover, the food is the most popular in our area - sausages, dumplings, dry soups, canned vegetables, chocolates.

Ecologists (Greenpeace and the All-Ukrainian Ecological League) categorically include products of the most famous brands in this list - Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Nestle, Gallina Blanka, Knorr, Lipton, Bonduel. For a complete list of companies that have confirmed that their products may contain GM ingredients or have not denied their use, see .

“The results of the study showed that 18 out of 42 randomly selected foods contained genetically modified soybeans exceeded 3 percent,” said Mikhail Mukharovskiy, General Director of Ukrmetrteststandart. “Nine of them didn’t list the presence of soy protein at all.”

bonduel, thus blacklisted!

I understand that the accuracy of what is included in the list is not guaranteed, as the sources of information may be questionable. But otherwise, I have practically no way to keep such a list at all.

Orchard Puree Rich- Genetically modified foods.

By the way, the very first genetically modified product on the market is food banana, and any (to increase productivity, it has, roughly speaking, a duplicated set of chromosomes).

If about banana: artificially induced polyploidy is also a form of genetic modification (because the chromosome set becomes larger compared to the original organism), most importantly, cheap and angry. But journalists have not yet learned how to scare people with it.

Firm "Mistral", probably deliberately does not mark on the packs the country of growth of those cereals and legumes that are packaged in them. The fact is that she "lit up" in the sale of American crops, which, most likely, are genetically modified. Not labeled "Basmati Rice" either. Unfortunately, as I only found out today, it could be transgenic with a high degree of probability. From the book Seeds of Destruction. The Hidden Underlying of Genetic Manipulation, by William F. Engdahl:

RiceTech, a Texas biotechnology company, has decided that it will receive payments for a patent for basmati rice, a variation that has been a daily staple in India, Pakistan, and Asia for thousands of years. In 1998, RiceTech patented genetically modified Basmati rice, and thanks to US laws prohibiting the labeling of genetic products, RiceTech was able to sell it legally, labeling it as regular Basmati rice. RiceTech was found to have taken possession of precious Basmati seeds through dubious means, which had been deposited with the Rockefeller Foundation's International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines (IRRI). (10)

In the name of "security," IRRI duplicated a priceless collection of rice seeds from the Philippines and stored it in a seed bank in Fort Collins, Colorado, with the very dubious promise that the seeds would be kept as a safe seed stock for rice farmers. The IRRI convinced the farmers that it would serve their own security to provide their priceless finds in rice seed varieties to the IRRI.

In Colorado, far from the Philippines, MNIIR donated valuable seeds (without which RiceTech might not have made its patented genetic modifications) to RiceTech researchers, who immediately patented everything that was possible. They knew it was highly illegal: Even in Texas, rice researchers know that Basmati rice doesn't usually grow in the dusty plains around Texas' Crawford. (eleven)

RiceTek, in collusion with MNIIR, stole the seeds for its patent. In addition, according to the carefully crafted rules set by the Rockefeller Foundation's IRRI, although genebank seeds cannot be patented, any man-made improved variation based on them can be patented.

Variety "Jasmine" also has a GM modification.

From the article “Transgenic Senior Tomato and Dolly the Sheep…”:

You can delay the ripening of already harvested fruits by placing them in special conditions. With the help of carbon dioxide, the action of ethylene released by the fruits is blocked. These properties are manipulated by merchants carrying bananas, citrus fruits, and vegetables- and tomatoes and in particular. They are harvested green, and on the way they are treated with ethylene, which causes artificial maturation. Such fruits and vegetables lose their taste, ripen unevenly. And it's easy to verify this. For example, the tomatoes we buy on the market are red on the outside, but white on the inside. The delay in ripening is also connected with the fact that basically those tomatoes that we sell are imported from Turkey, and they are all transgenic. Even on the boxes in which they are packed, it is written: TRANSGEN.

Excerpts from the book of Mikhail Efremov: “Caution! Harmful products!

Additives with a high degree of probability of containing GI components:

E-153 - Vegetable Carbon (vegetable coal);

E-160d - Annatto, Bixin, Norbixin (annatto, bixin, norbixin);

E-161c - Paprika extract, Capsanthin, Capsorubin (paprika extract, capsanthin, capsorubin);

E-308 - Synthetic Gamma-tocopherol (synthetic y-tocopherol);

E-309 - Synthetic Delta-tocopherol (synthetic d-tocopherol);

E -471 – Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids ( mono - and diglycerides of fatty acids);

E-472a Acetic Acid Esters of Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids ( esters of mono - and diglycerides of acetic fatty acids);

E -473 - Sucrose Esters of Fatty Acids ( esters of sucrose and fatty acids);

E -475 – Polyglycerol Esters of Fatty Acids ( esters of polyglycerides and fatty acids);

E -476 - Polyglycerol Polyricinoleate ( polyglycerin polyglycerinoleates);

E -477 - Propane-1, 2-diol Esters of Fatty Acids ( propane -1, 2-diol esters of fatty acids);

E -479b – Thermally Oxideized Soya Bean Oll Interacted with Mono- and Diglycerides of Fatty Acids ( thermally oxidized soybean and bean oil with mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids);

E -570 - Fatty Acids (fatty acids);

E-951 - Aspartame (aspartame, or nutrosvit).

Additives based on GM components:

Riboflavin (B2)otherwise known as E 101 and E 101A, made from GM microorganisms, approved for sale in a number of countries. It is added in cereals, soft drinks, baby food and weight loss products.Caramel(E 150) and xanthan (E 415) can be made from grain.

Lecithin (E 322) is made from soythat can be genetically modified. Such soy uses, in particular, company Nesltein its chocolate, baby food and other products.Other additives that may contain GM components: E 153, E 160 d, E 161 c, E 308-9, E-471, E 472a, E 473, E 475, E 476 b, E 477, E479 a, E 570, E 572, E 573, E 620, E 621, E 622, E 633, E 624, E 625.

I emphasize that food additives for any purpose (technological, to “improve” consumer qualities) can be included, among other things, in dietary supplement. Therefore, it is important to know which of the food additives are prohibited or dangerous.

I saw how it works dairy production. Only milk after that is not very desirable to drink.

And only raw cow's milk can be consumed. You can make yogurt from the store, and not from anyone, but preferably from the one on which it is written that it is made from natural (whole) cow's milk (its fat content is usually indicated as 3.4-6%). Drinking such milk in its pure form is not worth it, because it is pasteurized and if you drink it regularly, your joints will start to hurt after a while - most likely due to the deposition of inorganic calcium in them, which appears during pasteurization (it passes from an organically bound form to an inorganic one). But you can make yogurt out of it - it turns out quite well and does not cause problems.

But any milk normalized for fat content is a real poison. And even yogurt from such milk turns out to be unimportant, except that from milk with a fat content of no more than 1% - lactobacilli at the very least cope with such concentrations of modified milk fat.

GMO - manufacturing company :

Catbury

Mars

Snickers

Twix

Milky Way

Uncle Bans

Coca Cola

Sprite

7 up

pepsi

Nestle

Knorr

Lipton

Parmalat (cookies)

Similak (baby food)

Potato (from Monsant USA)

LIST OF INTERNATIONAL MANUFACTURERS NOTICED TO USE GMOS:

''Greenpeace'' has published a list of companies that use GMOs in their products. Interestingly, in different countries, these companies behave differently, depending on the legislation of a particular country.
In total, more than 120 names (brands) of products with GMOs are registered in Russia, according to voluntary registration data and a special register of products imported from abroad. Among the manufacturers whose products contain GMOs are:
OOO ''Daria - semi-finished products'', OOO ''Meat-packing plant Klinskiy'', MPZ ''Taganskiy'', MPZ ''KampoMos'', CJSC ''Vichiunay'', OOO ''MLM-RA'', OOO '' Talostoprodukty'', LLC ''Sausage plant'' Bogatyr'', LLC ''ROS Mari Ltf''.
Unilever manufacturing company: Lipton (tea), Brooke Bond (tea), ''Beseda'' (tea), Calve (mayonnaise, ketchup), Rama (butter), ''Pyshka'' (margarine), ''Delmi'' (mayonnaise, yogurt, margarine), ''Algida'' (ice cream), Knorr (seasonings); Nestle manufacturing company: Nescafe (coffee and milk), Maggi (soups, broths, mayonnaise, Nestle (chocolate), Nestea (tea), Neseiulk (cocoa);
Company manufacturer Kellog's: Corn Flakes (flakes), Frosted Flakes (flakes), Rice Krispies (flakes), Corn Pops (flakes), Smacks (flakes), Froot Loops (colored cereal rings), Apple Jacks (flake rings with apple flavor), Afl-bran Apple Cinnamon/Blueberry (bran with apple, cinnamon, blueberry flavors), Chocolate Chip (chocolate chips), Pop Tarts (stuffed cookies, all flavors), Nulri grain (filled toast, all types) , Crispix (cookies), All-Bran (cereal), Just Right Fruit & Nut (cereal), Honey Crunch Corn Flakes (cereal), Raisin Bran Crunch (cereal), Cracklin'Oat Bran (cereal);
Hershey's Manufacturing Company: Toblerone (chocolate, all types), Mini Kisses (candy), Kit-Kat (chocolate bar), Kisses (candy), Semi-Sweet Baking Chips (cookies), Milk Chocolate Chips (cookies), Reese 's Peanut Butter Cups (peanut butter), Special Dark (dark chocolate), Milk Chocolate milk chocolate), Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup), Special Dark Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup), Setoawberry Syrup (strawberry syrup);
Mars Manufacturing Company: M&M'S, Snickers, Milky Way, Twix, Nestle, Crunch (chocolate rice cereal), Milk Chocolate Nestle (chocolate), Nesquik (chocolate drink), Cadbury (Cadbury/Hershey's), Fruit
Heinz manufacturing company: Ketchup (regular&no salt) (ketchup), Chili Sauce (Chili sauce), Heinz 57 Steak Sauce (sauce for meat);
Coca-Cola manufacturing company: Coca Cola, Sprite, Cherry Cola, Minute Maid Orange, Minute Maid Grape;
PepsiCo manufacturing company: Pepsi, Pepsi Cherry, Mountain Dew;
Frito-Lay / PepsiCo: (GM components may be contained in oil and other ingredients), Lays Potato Chips (all), Cheetos (all);
Manufacturing company Cadbury /Schweppes:7-Up, Dr. pepper;
Pringles Procter&Gamble: Pringles (Original, LowFat, Pizzalicious, Sour Cream&Onion, Salt&Vinegar, Cheezeums flavored chips).
1 Hershey's Cadbury Fruit&Nut chocolate products
2 Mars M&M
3 Snickers
4 Twix
5 Milky Way
6 Cadbury chocolate, cocoa
7 Ferrero
8 Nestle chocolate ''Nestle'', ''Russia''
9 Nestle Nesquik Chocolate Drink
10 Soft drink Sosa-Cola ‘‘Coca-Cola’’ Sosa-Cola
11 ‘‘Sprite’’, ’’Fanta’’, tonic ’’Kinley’’, ’’Fruittime’’
12 Pepci-Co Pepsi 13 ''7-Up'', ''Fiesta'', ''Mountain Dew''
14 Kellogg's breakfast cereal
15 Campbell Soups
16 Rice Uncle Bens Mars
17 Sauces Knorr
18 Lipton Tea
19 Parmalat cookies
20 Seasonings, mayonnaises, Hellman's sauces
21 Seasonings, mayonnaise, Heinz sauces
22 Nestle baby food
23 Hipp
24 Abbot Labs Similac
25 Yoghurts, kefir, cheese, baby food Danon
26 McDonald's (McDonald's) fast food restaurant chain
27 chocolate, chips, coffee, baby food Kraft (Kraft)
28 ketchups, sauces. Heinz Foods
29 baby food, products ''Delmi'' Unilever (Unilever)

Products in the preparation technology of which GMOs are used:

AOOT ''Nizhny Novgorod Oil and Fat Plant'' (mayonnaises ''Ryaba'', ''For the future'', etc.).
- Products ''Bonduelle'' (Hungary) - beans, corn, green peas.
- CJSC ''Baltimore-Neva'' (St. Petersburg) - ketchups.
- CJSC ''Mikoyanovsky Meat Processing Plant'' (Moscow) - pastes, minced meat.
- ZAO YUROP FOODS GB'' (Nizhny Novgorod region) - soups ''Galina Blanca''.
- Concern ''White Ocean'' (Moscow) - chips ''Russian Potato''.
- OJSC ''Lianozovsky Dairy Plant'' (Moscow) - yogurts, ''Miracle Milk'', ''Miracle Chocolate''.
- OJSC ''Cherkizovsky MPZ'' (Moscow) - frozen minced meat.
- LLC ''Campina'' (Moscow region) - yoghurts, baby food.
- LLC ''MK Gurman'' (Novosibirsk) - pastes.
- LLC ''Frito'' (Moscow region) - chips ''Layz''.
- OOO ''Ehrmann'' (Moscow region) - yoghurts.
- OOO ''Unilever CIS'' (Tula) - mayonnaise ''Calve''.
- Factory ''Bolshevik'' (Moscow) - biscuits 'Jubilee'.
- ''Nestle'' (Switzerland, Finland) - dry milk mixture ''Nestogen'', mashed potatoes ''Vegetables with beef''.

note how carefully products for children are screened out - everywhere there are GMOs, not there, and if your child does not eat yogurt, then he eats Nesquik or cereal or mashed potatoes. And one way or another, but GMO gets
into his body. In supermarkets, this is the situation now: absolutely all products are labeled ''GMO-free''. We read the composition on the label: modified soy, modified starch, and so on.

Ecology of life: Genetically modified foods have become the cause of much debate these days. Some believe that GMO products should disappear from our shelves altogether, others are sure that they are the future. However, not everyone understands that many of today's fruits and vegetables would not exist at all without careful selection.

10 Genetically Modified Foods

Genetically modified foods have become the cause of much debate these days. Some believe that GMO products should disappear from our shelves altogether, others are sure that they are the future. However, not everyone understands that many of today's fruits and vegetables would not exist at all without careful selection. In reality, most cultivated agricultural plants have very little in common with their distant ancestors.

10. Carrot

The earliest records of carrot cultivation date back to Asia Minor and Persia in the 10th century. But even before carrots were purposefully cultivated, wild carrots were growing all over the world. In Europe, its seeds were found, which are about 5000 years old.

Initially, carrots were small and white. She had many shoots, which made her look like a typical root of many plants. Most likely, in ancient times it was used for medicinal purposes.

It is believed that the transformation of carrots into the orange, sweet food so popular today was the result of centuries of artificial selection. Today, orange carrots are called "carotene" or "Western" carrots, while their closest relatives are known as "Asian" or "Eastern" carrots. Different varieties of the latter have purple, yellow or white roots.

9. Eggplant

It seems that a large, purple, shiny eggplant cannot be confused with anything. However, in fact, eggplants have many varieties. For the first time at home, eggplant was grown on the territory of modern India and Burma. Today it is widely cultivated in all areas from northeast India and Burma to northern Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and southwestern China.

During the British occupation of India, the British called this vegetable eggplant ("egg plant"), because then it was white and egg-shaped. Descriptions of eggplant appear in various manuscripts dating back to 300 BC, but they differ slightly: sometimes it is a “blue” fruit, sometimes it is a “royal melon”, some descriptions mention thorns. Over the centuries, the plant has migrated throughout Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and North America. It is present in various forms in early works of art and literary sources from these regions.

8. Bananas

These yellow, powdery, sweet-fleshed fruits, which can be seen almost everywhere today, were first specially grown in Papua New Guinea about 7,000-10,000 years ago. But, in addition to the usual yellow bananas, there are several more of their varieties, most of which today grow in Asia.

The most popular long yellow fruits belong to the Cavendish group (they are also “paradise banana”); it is the result of centuries of careful selection by conscientious farmers. These bananas are descended from two types of wild bananas: "pointy banana" - Musa acuminata - and "balbis banana" - Musa balbisiana.

The former has good firm flesh but is not very palatable when raw. The second is a short, small fruit with many hard, pea-sized seeds. Thousands of years ago, it was discovered that cross-pollination of these two varieties sometimes produces sweet, yellow, seedless fruits that are also rich in nutrients. Since this variety does not produce seeds, the plants propagate only with the help of humans, using various methods of asexual reproduction (cuttings, grafting, etc.).

This form of reproduction makes "paradise bananas" more susceptible to disease than their hardy ancestors were. Because plants are genetically homogeneous, epidemics can quickly and easily wipe out entire farms. Therefore, banana growers are very careful about their plants so that the world does not experience a banana apocalypse.

7. Tomatoes

Wild Tiny Pimp sounds like an unfortunate street name, but it's actually the name of a type of tomato. In fact, this is the same species from which all other tomatoes originated. Biologists call it Solanum pimpinellifolium, or simply "pimp" - "pimp".

Today, these pea-sized tomatoes grow in northern Peru and southern Ecuador. Once, in the pre-Columbian era, the inhabitants of South America domesticated them. Then these tomatoes spread throughout Europe and eventually returned to America, but already in North America.

All of today's wide range of tomatoes comes from a tiny "pimp" and, what is especially interesting, the genetic differences from it of any of the varieties are no more than five percent. Crossing modern types with earlier wild varieties, including pimpinellifolium, produces plants that are hardier and less susceptible to disease.

6. Watermelons

There are many theories about where exactly watermelons originated. Historians agree only that watermelons originally appeared somewhere in Africa, then spread across the Mediterranean, and then came to Europe.

Harry Paris, a breeder at the Israel Agricultural Research Organization, concluded that the earliest ancestor of the watermelon was first cultivated in Egypt about 4,000 years ago. This ancient fruit was nothing like today's sweet fruit - it was tough, bitter, and pale green in color. So why did the ancient Egyptians decide to spend their time and effort on breeding it?

Paris believes that they were grown simply as a source of water. During the dry season, watermelons kept well and the Egyptians could grind them up and extract the moisture they contained. He also believes that it was the Egyptians who started the process of selective breeding of watermelons that eventually led us to the watermelon we all know.

5. Corn

It is hard to imagine a world without this popular plant. Corn was one of the first plants that people began to grow specifically. This happened about 10,000 years ago in the region that is today Mexico. Once upon a time, corn cobs were very small, but they have grown larger over time thanks to artificial selection.

Looking even further, we find that the ancient ancestor of corn is a wild plant called teosinte. It bears little resemblance to corn, although it also has grains. However, at the genetic level, these plants are very similar.

Geneticist George Beadle discovered during his research that only five chromosomes distinguish them. Over time, teosinte underwent small genetic changes that eventually led to the emergence of corn.

4. Peaches

Peach has a rather ancient history. In China, fossilized peach pits have been discovered that are about 2.5 million years old. Obviously, peaches then were much smaller than modern ones. They looked more like small cherries and had very little pulp.

It took selective work over 3,000 years for the peach to take on its modern form. Not surprisingly, peaches play a prominent role in Chinese culture. They symbolize long life and are commonly found in markets throughout the country.

3. Avocado

These fleshy fruits, which are the main ingredient in the preparation of guacamole, served as food for prehistoric giant mammals 65.5 million years ago. In fact, these animals were the only carriers of avocado seeds, as they ate the whole fruit and later defecated in a completely different place.

Ancient avocados had an even bigger pit (if you can imagine) and much less pulp. After large mammals died out, avocados began to be grown by people, over time making them more fleshy and attractive.

2. Papaya

Although papaya can be seen all over the world today, it originated in the tropical climates of Latin America. The modern papaya comes from the wild papaya, and they look very different from each other.

Wild papaya is round and about the size of a plum. Some species are even very similar to cocoa fruits. The ancient Maya were the first to cultivate papaya around 4,000 years ago. Growing these fruits is a complex process, as the plant is bisexual and the grower does not know from which seeds the plants will grow to produce fruit.

1. Pumpkins

The ancient Greeks called the pumpkin "pepon", which means "big melon". It is believed that pumpkins originally appeared in America. The earliest gourds were about the size of a grapefruit, tasted bitter, and were toxic when eaten raw.

Only large prehistoric mammals could eat them, and they also spread the seeds. When these mammals died out, the pumpkin could have disappeared with them if people had not started to breed it.

People used hollowed gourds as flasks for water, but eventually they began to eat them and select the seeds of the most delicious varieties. Perhaps this will somehow make you appreciate pumpkin products more. published . If you have any questions on this topic, ask them to specialists and readers of our project .

Given the ubiquity of unadvertised chemical additives, the use of GM raw materials and other nasty things, you need to be very careful about what you buy in grocery stores.

Firstly, to begin with, it is quite difficult to determine the presence of GMOs in a product in a laboratory.

There is a huge error. This time.

And two - this is that the method of determination itself is far from perfect. A gene is inserted into a specific section of DNA. And if, for example, a gene is integrated incorrectly, not into this assigned link, then it will not be detected. Just as they will not find the built-in gene of any other type of GM organism - because it is a different gene, and is built into a different link. And they are looking for a specific match.

Well, for example. Let's take a potato. GM potatoes with the scorpion gene. Once in the laboratory, the first thing they will check is how many types of GM potatoes are registered that are allowed for sale on the territory of the Russian Federation.

For example, 3. One - with the snowdrop gene inserted in one section of the chain, the other - with the crocodile gene inserted in a completely different place, and the third with the Colorado potato beetle gene inserted in a different section of DNA.

Thus, even if your potato is definitely GMO, but this type of GMO is not certified, the scorpion gene will never be determined. Just because going through the entire DNA chain and checking it thoroughly for ALL POSSIBLE invariant inserts is an almost impossible task! In any case, it is so costly and time-consuming that it is unrealistic.

And now - attention.

In Russia, there are very few types of GM products registered and allowed for sale.

GMO food is dangerous!

This was proved by Professor Ermakova Irina Vladimirovna in experiments with laboratory animals. The results of these experiments are horrifying. Ermakova I.V. urges all scientists to repeat these simple experiments. The use of genetically modified plants (GMOs) leads not only to the death of animals. Where GM plants are grown, soil bacteria began to disappear.

In addition, GM plants are appearing that can displace conventional species. There is an urgent need for a state moratorium (as, for example, in France) on the import and use of GMOs in agriculture and the food industry.

And it is also necessary to equip laboratories to control the presence of GMOs in food.

In the meantime ... there is not only no ban, but also the possibility of control over the presence of GMOs in products by public services.

BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THERE ARE FEW GMOS IN RUSSIA. THIS ONLY MEANS THAT IT IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO IDENTIFY IT IN OUR LABORATORIES.

Therefore, forget about labeling. We will go the other way.

To begin with, it should be understood that the GROWING of GM products is prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation, but its sale to the public is allowed. Naturally, they, the bastards, need our lands, and we ourselves are the ballast that they are trying to get rid of.

Therefore, products grown on state farms of the Russian Federation are most likely not GM products. If state farms buy seeds from a reliable source, or use their own seed stock, then this is definitely a pure species.

However, the problem is that today there are almost no state farms left. All the land was bought or leased by foreign agricultural holdings (naturally, registered to the Russian uncle Vasya). So, these agricultural holdings are sowing and planting frank muck in our country. And sprinkle abundantly with the same muck.

Especially in the case of rent. They take the land for 5 years, and kill capitally during this time. All sorts of GMOs, fertilizers, growth hormones and roundups.

Basically, these products were processed - into chips, for example, canning, soups and fast food, briquettes ... etc. Because before people did not take such vegetables and fruits. So far, they were normal, and people could compare and choose.

That's why, try to buy as few semi-finished products as possible- dumplings, dumplings, pancakes, pizza, etc. These products, as a rule, are simply crammed with transgenes.

However, now there are almost no quality vegetables left. Private farmers just have, which is becoming less and less. Again, how conscientious are they and what kind of seeds are they buying?.. Basically, everyone has already been taught GMO poison, and in any case, they don’t sell nasty things IN THE REGION. If he has grown disgusting, then they go to sell away from home.

By the way, in our country a sufficient amount of really high-quality, elite products is still being grown. All of it is for export. And GMOs are imported to us in exchange.

Now about specific products.

However, basically all of our traditional cereals are non-GMO. Including food peas and beans. Bye. (I'm not talking about green peas). American GMOs are already starting to buy wheat - and they are driving their own quality for export.

Mostly, wheat we still have a good one. How and flour and pasta.

Rice. Question. Krasnodar seems to be natural. Expensive varieties of rice, eminent ones, are also real. Basmati, for example. Anything steamed and polished there is highly doubtful.

Buckwheat. Ideal cereal. She and the groats of a raw foodist - buckwheat can be poured overnight with water or kefir and it will swell, become porridge. This porridge can be eaten raw. This is the most helpful! In extreme cases, you can boil. And buckwheat is also valuable in that its genetic modification does not work out in any way. :))) In a word - good food.

The same and about white cabbage. It's not GMO. Can not be. Therefore, eat boldly. Stew, boil, make salads, sour, bake, gnaw on leaves ... It's so useful! Especially for our region.

All other crops are genetically modified.

So how do you define them anyway?

Let's start with fruits.

Fruit trees of the countries of the former USSR are definitely not GMOs. Therefore, one can take Russian apples, and Abkhazian tangerines, and Uzbek pomegranates, and grapes ... Russian cherries, berries… all this is ours, native and natural.

But with the countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Israel, India, China, Latin America, Argentina, the USA, Canada, Europe, it is not at all so rosy. Transgenes have been grown there for a long time. Transgenic bananas, oranges, kiwi, grapes, and further down the list ... Finishing corn, tomatoes and green peas. Therefore, I do not advise you to take risks. Yes, avocados, which seem to be real so far - they smell good and have a pronounced taste, .. and there are good pineapples ... but run into ...

Strawberries imported definitely will not come to us natural. You yourself know how it smells and how much strawberries lie from the garden. Or from a grandmother's basket. It has nothing to do with what they call strawberries and sell in stores.

By the way, this is one of the main rules: natural product smells. Smells like nectar. He is fragrant. GMO either does not smell, or smells “somehow wrong”, unpleasant.

Here you like, for example, how they smell bananas? I don't. I lived in Egypt for a long time, and I know how REAL bananas smell. It's the same with taste. Natural product is delicious. He wants to eat. GMO - has a taste, something repulsive.

Remember this rule . If you bought a product, but its taste seems repulsive, unpleasant, tasteless to you - do not eat it. This is a sure sign of poison. It won't bring you health.

A few words about China.

I wouldn't buy Chinese food at all. In addition to dried seaweed. Everything else is doubtful. Even tea GMO. Definitely GM Chinese pears. In the state where they grow these pears, all the bees have died out. And they pollinate their pears by hand. Tobacco, it was with GMO tobacco many years ago that China began its transgenization.

Yes, here is another important point. GM products are fruitless. And it has little or no growth momentum. That is, if you eat mandarin, and the bone in it already contains a green living embryo, this is a real tangerine. And he is full of vitality. This rule applies to all products.

A potato, if it grows, is already a good indicator. It is most likely non-GMO. And certainly not treated with radiation. Yes, yes, now to store the potato crop, it is industrially irradiated with radiation. To not grow. And then in the spring they sell it to us.

About cheese and milk. Basically, now GM starter cultures have been added to cheeses. By the way, Oltermani is also in doubt. Because wherever microbiological starter is written, we are talking about GM bacteria.

GM sourdough in almost all sour cream. The best option is cream (sour cream) from a private thrush. Precisely modified all dairy products with the “BIO” mark. biokefirs, bioyogurts, etc. I looked at certificates. These are GM components.

Soya all modified. DO NOT believe that a good one is being sold to you. As well as dry milk, dried cream. They are almost always diluted with soy milk. Soy is also in sweets, candy bars. Confectionery- Vegetable cream cakes are GM soy cream.

Badyazhat the same cottage cheese. Read the ingredients carefully. Taste it. Find one that's good and stick with it. Or buy from a private seller.

One of the most reliable sources of healthy products is our Slavic grandparents (not to be confused with migrant stalls, where the same low-quality imported products are mainly brought)

Bread, which stays fresh for a long time, almost certainly contains GMOs. Products from companies such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mars, Kettberry, Snickers was convicted by Greenpeace of using transgenes. Absolutely do not buy products NESTLE, DANON, Similac. That's really where the weapon of genocide. They screwed up on many points. And GMOs are among the first. In general, it is better not to take imported ... Although. now almost all Russian enterprises have been bought out by the same foreign transcorporations. And they drive the same nonsense under Russian brands there ...

GMOs are not planted in Belarus. Can buy from them green peas and other canned food. That's why milk they have quality. So strikingly different in taste from ours. In Russia, too, there are zones that have declared themselves free from GMOs. For example, the Belgorod region. Feel free to buy their products. From potatoes to granulated sugar with milk.

Lots of GMO drugs now. It is better to refuse them altogether. From GM interferon… to GM insulin… GM nutritional supplements…

AND IN GENERAL, YOU CAN LIVE. It is difficult at first, but then you can learn to navigate. Stick to the basic rules, trust your body. Eat more homemade, natural, then your sensitivity to chemistry will sharply increase.

Well, land now. Have your own, from the garden, potatoes, currants, strawberries, cherries and apples .... - it's so wonderful!!!

Probability of GMO content in the product

When buying products in a store using labels (for examples of labels and comments on them, see the appendix), you can indirectly determine the likelihood of GMO content in the product.

If the label says that the product is made in the USA and contains soy, corn, canola or potatoes, there is a very good chance that it contains GM components.

Most products based on soy, produced not in the USA, but outside of Russia, can also be transgenic. If the label proudly says "vegetable protein", this is most likely soy and very likely transgenic.

Often GMOs can hide behind E indices. However, this does not mean that all E additives contain GMOs or are transgenic. You just need to know which E can, in principle, contain GMOs or their derivatives.

This is, first of all, soy lecithin or lecithin E 322: binds water and fats together and is used as a fat element in formula milks, biscuits, chocolate, riboflavin (B2) otherwise known as E 101 and E 101A, can be produced from GM microorganisms. It is added to cereals, soft drinks, baby food and weight loss products. Caramel (E 150) and xanthan (E 415) can also be produced from GM grain.

Other Supplements That May Contain GM Ingredients: E 153, E 160d, E 161c, E 308-9, E-471, E 472a, E 473, E 475, E 476b, E 477, E479a, E 570, E 572, E 573, E 620, E 621 , E 622, E 633, E 624, E 625, E951. Sometimes on the labels the names of additives are indicated only in words, they also need to be able to navigate. Let's take a look at the most common components.

Soybean oil: used in sauces, pastes, cakes and deep fried foods in the form of fat to add extra flavor and quality.

Vegetable oil or vegetable fats: most commonly found in biscuits, "hard-fried" foods such as crisps.

Maltodextrin: A type of starch that acts as a "master agent" used in baby food, powdered soups, and powdered desserts.

Glucose or glucose syrup: Sugar, which can be produced from cornstarch, is used as a sweetener. Found in drinks, desserts and fast food.

Dextrose: like glucose, it can be made from cornstarch. Used in cakes, chips and cookies to achieve brown color. Also used as a sweetener in high energy sports drinks.

Aspartame, aspasvit, aspamix: The sweetener, which can be produced with a GM bacterium, has been restricted in a number of countries and is reported to have received a lot of criticism, mainly related to blackout syndrome, from consumers in the US. Aspartame is found in carbonated water, diet sodas, chewing gum, ketchups, etc.

Many people think that the label "modified starch" on a product means that the product contains GMOs. This even led to the fact that in 2002 the Legislative Assembly of the Perm region at its meeting included yoghurts with modified starch in the list of GM products illegally distributed in the region.

In fact, modified starch is obtained chemically without the use of genetic engineering. But starch itself can have a genetically engineered origin if it was obtained from GM corn, GM potatoes.

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With the ubiquity of unadvertised chemical additives, the use of GM raw materials and other nasty things, you need to be very careful about what you buy in grocery stores. The article provides some recommendations for choosing healthy foods.

GMOs - not GMOs? How to distinguish?

First, let me start by saying that it is quite difficult to determine the presence of GMOs in a product in the laboratory. There is a huge error.

And two - this is that the method of determination itself is far from perfect. A gene is inserted into a specific section of DNA. And if, for example, a gene is integrated incorrectly, not into this assigned link, then it will not be detected. Just as they will not find the built-in gene of any other type of GM organism - because it is a different gene, and is built into a different link. And they are looking for a specific match.

Well, for example. Let's take a potato. GM potatoes with the scorpion gene. Once in the laboratory, the first thing they will check is how many types of GM potatoes are registered that are allowed for sale on the territory of the Russian Federation. For example, 3. One - with the snowdrop gene inserted in one section of the chain, the other - with the crocodile gene inserted in a completely different place, and the third with the Colorado potato beetle gene inserted in a different section of DNA. Thus, even if your potato is definitely GMO, but this type of GMO is not certified, the scorpion gene will never be determined. Just because going through the entire DNA chain and checking it thoroughly for ALL POSSIBLE invariant inserts is an almost impossible task! In any case, it is so costly and time-consuming that it is unrealistic.

And now - attention. In Russia, there are very few types of GM products registered and allowed for sale.

BUT THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THERE ARE FEW GMOS IN RUSSIA. THIS ONLY MEANS THAT IT IS PRACTICALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO IDENTIFY IT IN OUR LABORATORIES.

Therefore, forget about labeling. We will go the other way.

Especially in the case of rent. They take the land for 5 years, and kill capitally during this time. All sorts of GMOs, fertilizers, growth hormones and roundups.

Therefore, try to buy as few semi-finished products as possible - dumplings, dumplings, pancakes, pizza, etc. These products, as a rule, are simply crammed with transgenes.

By the way, in our country a sufficient amount of really high-quality, elite products is still being grown. All of it is for export. And GMOs are imported to us in exchange.

Now about specific products.

I am convinced that hypermarkets sell mainly poison. In any case, imported products that fall into our hypernets are products of large food transcorporations. It is foolish to think that their food can be natural. Ordinary Russian farmers will not get on the counter of a hypermarket. In order for, for example, CROSSROADS to take your goods, you need to pay several tens of thousands of dollars in bribes. The same is true for other networks.
However, for the most part, all of our traditional cereals are non-GMO. Including food peas and beans. Bye. (I'm not talking about green peas). American GMOs are already starting to buy wheat - and they are driving their own quality for export.

Basically, our wheat is still good. Like flour and pasta. Rice. Question. Krasnodar seems to be natural. Expensive varieties of rice, eminent ones, are also real. Basmati, for example. Anything steamed and polished there is highly doubtful.

Buckwheat. Ideal cereal. She and the groats of a raw foodist - buckwheat can be poured overnight with water or kefir and it will swell, become porridge. This porridge can be eaten raw. This is the most helpful! In extreme cases, you can boil. And buckwheat is also valuable in that its genetic modification does not work out in any way. :))) In a word - good food.

The same goes for white cabbage. It's not GMO. Can not be. Therefore, eat boldly. Stew, boil, make salads, sour, bake, gnaw on leaves ... It's so useful! Especially for our region.

All other crops are genetically modified.

So how do you define them anyway?

Let's start with fruits.

Fruit trees of the countries of the former USSR are definitely not GMOs. Therefore, you can take Russian apples, and Abkhazian tangerines, and Uzbek pomegranates, and grapes ... Russian cherries, berries ... all this is ours, native and natural.

But with the countries of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Israel, India, China, Latin America, Argentina, the USA, Canada, Europe, it is not at all so rosy. Transgenes have been grown there for a long time. Transgenic bananas, oranges, kiwi, grapes, and further down the list… Ending with corn, tomatoes and green peas. Therefore, I do not advise you to take risks. Yes, avocados, which seem to be real so far - they smell good and have a pronounced taste, .. and there are good pineapples ... but run into ...

Imported strawberries will definitely not come to us natural. You yourself know how it smells and how much strawberries lie from the garden. Or from a grandmother's basket. It has nothing to do with what they call strawberries and sell in stores.

By the way, this is one of the basic rules: a natural product smells. Smells like nectar. He is fragrant. GMO either does not smell, or smells “somehow wrong”, unpleasant. Do you like, for example, how bananas smell? I don't. I lived in Egypt for a long time, and I know how REAL bananas smell. It's the same with taste. Natural product is delicious. He wants to eat. GMO - has a taste, something repulsive.

Remember this rule. If you bought a product, but its taste seems repulsive, unpleasant, tasteless to you - do not eat it. This is a sure sign of poison. It won't bring you health.

A few words about China.

I wouldn't buy Chinese food at all. In addition to dried seaweed. Everything else is doubtful. Even GMO tea. Definitely GM Chinese pears. In the state where they grow these pears, all the bees have died out. And they pollinate their pears by hand. Tobacco, it was with GMO tobacco many years ago that China began its transgenization.

Yes, here is another important point. GM products are fruitless. And it has little or no growth momentum. That is, if you eat a tangerine, and the bone in it already contains a green living embryo, this is a real tangerine. And he is full of vitality. This rule applies to all products. A potato, if it grows, is already a good indicator. It is most likely non-GMO. And certainly not treated with radiation. Yes, yes, now to store the potato crop, it is industrially irradiated with radiation. To not grow. And then in the spring they sell it to us.

As for cheese and dairy. Basically, now GM starter cultures have been added to cheeses. By the way, Oltermani is also in doubt. Because wherever microbiological starter is written, we are talking about GM bacteria.

GM sourdough in almost all sour creams. The best option is cream (sour cream) from a private thrush. Precisely modified all dairy products with the “BIO” mark. biokefirs, bioyogurts, etc. I looked at certificates. These are GM components.

Whole modified soy. DO NOT believe that a good one is being sold to you. Just like milk powder, cream powder. They are almost always diluted with soy milk. Soy is also found in sweets and candies. Confectionery - vegetable cream cakes - this is soy GM cream.

Badyazhat the same cottage cheese. Read the ingredients carefully. Taste it. Find one that's good and stick with it. Or buy from a private seller.

One of the most reliable sources of healthy products is our Slavic grandparents (not to be confused with migrant stalls, where the same low-quality imported products are mainly brought)

Bread that stays fresh for a long time almost certainly contains GMOs. The products of such companies as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Mars, Kettberry, Snickers were convicted by Greenpeace of using transgenes. Categorically do not buy Nestlé, Danone, Similak products. That's really where the weapon of genocide. They screwed up on many points. And GMOs are among the first. In general, it is better not to take imported ... Although. now almost all Russian enterprises have been bought out by the same foreign transcorporations. And they drive the same nonsense under Russian brands there ...

GMOs are not planted in Belarus. You can buy green peas and other canned food from them. Therefore, their milk is of high quality. So strikingly different in taste from ours. In Russia, too, there are zones that have declared themselves free from GMOs. For example, the Belgorod region. Feel free to buy their products. From potatoes to granulated sugar with milk.

Lots of GMO drugs now. It is better to refuse them altogether. From GM interferon… to GM insulin… GM nutritional supplements…

Well, land now. Have your own, from the garden, potatoes, currants, strawberries, cherries and apples .... - it's so wonderful!!!

Health to you. And prosperity.

"Only GM can save a banana" was a message to the world that first appeared back in 2001, revisited in 2003, and is still being hyped by the media today. According to the source, since bananas are sterile, it will be difficult for them to avoid dangerous diseases and therefore may disappear within ten years.

According to the source, "The common cultivar, Cavendish, is already threatened by diseases, including black Sigatoka, and a new strain of another fungus called Panama disease, which can destroy plants within 10 years." As we are told, the banana business is "doomed". "There will be no more fresh bananas, banana bread, banana muffin or banana cream pie." What's especially bad is that bananas are an important nutrient in many developing countries. "Half a billion people in Africa and Asia depend on bananas for half their daily caloric intake," reports say. may be the only answer." "Scientists believe that creating a banana that is able to resist disease may be the only option for preserving this fruit."

But the UN Food and Agriculture Organization ( FAO) disagrees with Dr. Frison's remarks that bananas are on the brink of extinction, saying that while there are some problems with vulnerability to disease, and this is exacerbated by the large-scale commercial use of the Cavendish banana. The FAO also notes that smallholders around the world grow a wide range of different types of bananas, which are generally less of a threat than the Cavendish. In fact, there are hundreds of different types of bananas, and only 10 percent of it is produced and consumed on par with the Cavendish.

Other scientists also refute the claim that bananas are on the brink of extinction. Thai scientist, Benhamas Silaio of Kasetsart University of Agriculture, says bananas simply can't disappear so quickly. She points out that there is a collection of banana plasma in the world at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, storing over 1100 connections. In addition, there is also an Asian banana collection in the Philippines, Thailand and also has its own banana collection Kasetsart University Tissue Culture Laboratory. According to Benhamas, pests and diseases cannot affect the disappearance of bananas in such a short time. "Only big cataclysms can do that," she says.

Plant pathologist Dr. David Jones, a banana specialist, also disagrees with the claim that genetic engineering may be the only option to improve "sterile" varieties of bananas. “To date, the agricultural research base in Honduras has been the most successful conventional banana breeding program. Honduran Agricultural Research Foundation (original - Fundacion Hondureña de Investigación Agricola - FHIA) developed disease-resistant bananas now widely grown in Cuba (which used to have serious disease problems). One banana called Goldfinger grown in Australia, while others are being tested in Africa and elsewhere. Conventional breeding can create normal bananas, especially when it comes to bananas approved in developing countries.” Even in the case of the Cavendish banana, with its alleged infertility problems, recent studies in Honduras have shown that some Cavendish plants are capable of producing viable seeds. Researchers at the FHIA believe that non-sterile fruits form the basis of promising hybrids that could be bred to be resistant to fungus.

Banana expert Dan Koeppel says: “Most banana researchers agree that the real way out, as with crops like potatoes, apples and grapes, is to abandon monoculture, which is prone to devastating diseases. Diversity among bananas would allow farmers to isolate bananas. susceptible to diseases, surround them with more resistant varieties.

The only way to save the banana is to follow the classic pattern. All these rumors are designed to be presented as a magical solution to this seemingly intractable situation. The goal is to reluctantly blackmail consumers and farmers into accepting GMO bananas.

Sources:
Mark Henderson, "Bananas will disappear without GM", The Times, January 16, 2003
Robert Alison, "Yes, we won't have bananas", Globe & Mail (Canada), July 19, 2003
Robert Uhlig, "Defenceless bananas will be gone in 10 years", Daily Telegraph, January 16, 2003
Mark Henderson, "Bananas will disappear without GM", The Times, January 16
“Bananas are not on the brink of extinction, says FAO”, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy, January 30, 2003;
"Bananas won't disappear until 2013", The Nation, January 30, 2003
David Jones, Bananas on GM, New Scientist, August 4, 2001, Letters
Dan Koeppel, "The Beginning of the End for Bananas?", Scientist, 22 July 2011