Crop Test (Final)

Question 1

Sugarcane/Sugar beets

Answer 1

Sugarcane:
Perennial grass
Old World
Tropical
Sugar beet:
Annual
Old world
non-tropical
everybody wants/needs sugar. Every country with a navy sent boats to the carribean to grow sugarcane.
Rum is made of sugarcane

Question 2

Cotton

Answer 2

perennial but grown as annual
tropical
Old world
Slavery in the americas. natural fiber. highly genetically modified.
dye bleeds out when washing
genetically modified so pesticides can be used on it without destroying crop
replaced wool and animal skins
dual origin in Africa and mesoamerica

Question 3

Corn

Answer 3

Annual
non tropical
New world
Most MAN MADE crop
small percentage of corn is eaten by humans the rest goes towards gas and animals.
we eat sweetcorn and popcorn

Question 4

Coffee

Answer 4

Perennial
Tropical
Old world
produced in countries that don’t really use it.
most of the money is spent on the aroma.
came from Ethiopia.
Turkey has really strong coffee
Beans are green when picked
Brazil, Colombia, and Vietnam grow it
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Question 5

Marijuana

Answer 5

Annual
tropical
Old world
Harvested and kept
thc- psychoactive
cbd - pain relief
thousands of cultivars and a long history that goes up until today
takes contaminants from air
illegal after opioid conventions

Question 6

Rubber

Answer 6

Perennial
tropical
new world
there are synthetic/artificial rubbers

Question 7

Rice

Answer 7

perennial
tropical
old world
rice is very important to people
its in many cultures

Question 8

Grapes/Wine

Answer 8

Perennial
tropical
old world
12% alcohol content
resveratrol is an antioxidant and is what makes red wine healthy found in the skin of red grapes
to make red wine u need skin of red grapes, to make white wine you need no skin
you can make white wine out of red grapes, just don’t include the red skin

Question 9

Chocolate

Answer 9

Perennial
Tropical
New world
Mood enhancer.
eat chocolate 1/2hr before a test
central america
DRINK OF GODS
many additives in chocolate
women need it more than men
white chocolate has no cocoa meaning its not real chocolate
the bean is taken out the pod and roasted
its not consumed where it is produced
dark chocolate has antioxidant properties and helps health but sugar harms teeth
its farmed in a dangerous part of Africa and childeren harvest it
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Question 10

Trees

Answer 10

Perennial
tropical and non tropical
old and new world
sustainable
palm trees aren’t trees
trees have cambium (palmtrees dont)
hardwood and softwood.
they are apart of every day life

Question 11

Coca

Answer 11

Perennial
Tropical
New world
cocaine
Bolivia is big on coca production
the material is used to make clothes

Question 12

Beer

Answer 12

5% alcohol content
Beer needs yeast, water, hops, and grains
its international
recreational
fungi is used to ferment

Question 13

Cassava

Answer 13

Perennial
tropical
New world

Question 14

Wheat

Answer 14

Annual
Old World
Not tropical
Good for carbohydrates
from the middle east
Wheat we have doesn’t grind, old wheat needed to be ground up to be palatable
you need to grind the wheat to get bread that rises
China developed pasta
Hard to store with rodents so they kept cats around
Egypt made wheat for Rome
it has many uses

Question 15

Soybean

Answer 15

Annual
Old world
Not tropical
used for different stuff, both food and industrial uses
Edamame is a immature soybean
One of the last agricultural crops that came to America
Came from Africa
Not too many genetically modified variations
Brazil is a leading producer

Question 16

Tobacco

Answer 16

perennial but used as a annual
Tropical
New world
you can get lung cancer from smoking tobacco
chemicals are added in it

Question 17

Peanuts

Answer 17

perennial but used as annual
tropical
new world
4 types: runner, Virginia, Spanish, Valencia
George Washington carver used them to save the south
grown from Georgia to Texas
different types of peanuts used for different things (eg. candy bars)
Has a high flashpoint and used in WOK
Pull out ground only wanted for root system
We cant grow it in NJ soil is too sandy

Question 18

Onion/Garlic

Answer 18

Onion:
perennial
Old world
non-tropical?

Garlic:
mostly used as annual but can be perennial too
Old world
non-tropical
good for pests and worm control

they have been around for a long time and people will keep them around as spices to make food edible

Question 19

Legumes (beans and peas)

Answer 19

annuals
Non-tropical
New world

Question 20

Potato

Answer 20

Annual
non tropical
New world
Irish potato famine -1845 - 1852. irish people had starvation, disease, and emigration because of The Great Famine. potato blight infected potatoes, also king took most of all the rest of the food.

Question 21

Opium Poppy

Answer 21

annual
non tropical
Old world
drug
unripe poppy seed pod

Question 22

Black Pepper

Answer 22

Perennial
Tropical
Old world
Peppercorn plant
KING OF SPICES
spread and is now found in many civilizations
old remedies used black pepper
it was like dealing with gold since people used it for bartering

Question 23

Clove

Answer 23

Perennial legume
tropical
Old world
bushy evergreen plant, clove is the fruit

Question 24

Saffron

Answer 24

Perennial
non tropical
Old world
very expensive and hard to harvest
the expensive kind does not exist in wild

Question 25

Ginger

Answer 25

perennial
Old world
tropical
doesnt exist in wild

Question 26

Tea

Answer 26

Perennial
tropical
Old world
made from leaves
different grades of tea
Bud, top 2 leaves are high quality, others are lower quality
1773 tea act passed in Britan and the boston tea party happened
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Question 27

Citrus

Answer 27

Perennial
Tropical
Old world
vitamins and minerals

Question 28

what Fischer had to say about spices in general

Answer 28

spices come from islands and saturated the mediterranean
no cooking without them
saffron vs artificial saffron
dutch monopolized the industry (eg. McCormick)
they don’t really go bad unless they are kept in bad environments