Bananas
Believe it or not, banana cultivation precedes the cultivation of rice. That’s right, we were changing bananas way before we were changing rice, one of the most ancient foods in the world. It’s said humans cultivated bananas in Papua New Guinea at least 7,000 years ago, and possibly up to 10,000 years ago. It’s said that “early bananas were green or red, and were prepared using a variety of cooking methods. The original bananas could only be eaten after cooking, which is contrary to the bananas we eat raw today. The current yellow sweet banana is a mutant of the plantain.” Mutant plantains? Sign us up! Before human interference, bananas had large, hard seeds. We weren’t able to sit back and peel a banana with the ease we can nowadays. Better yet, modern bananas have way more nutrition than their ancestors, including potassium, Vitamin B6, and Manganese (Business Insider).