irreticent@lemmy.world to Gif Recipes@lemmy.world · 27 days agoNot Your Grandma's Brussels Sproutsi.imgur.comimagemessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down12
arrow-up127arrow-down1imageNot Your Grandma's Brussels Sproutsi.imgur.comirreticent@lemmy.world to Gif Recipes@lemmy.world · 27 days agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squareSturgiesYrFase@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·27 days agoBy the heroic efforts of a Dutch scientist that was sick of people hating brussel sprouts…well… That’s my headcannon anyway. In the 1990s, Dutch scientist Hans van Doorn identified the chemicals that make Brussels sprouts bitter: sinigrin and progoitrin.[11] This enabled Dutch seed companies to cross-breed archived low-bitterness varieties with modern high-yield varieties, over time producing a significant increase in the popularity of the vegetable.[12]
minus-squarepickman_model@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·26 days agoOooooo I owe a lot to Hans van Doorn… I hated brussel sprouts so much when I was a child, I thought it was because I always had them boiled. So modern ones are yummier than they used to.
minus-squareNuke_the_whales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·27 days agoAt first I read his name as Hans Van Doom. Much cooler
By the heroic efforts of a Dutch scientist that was sick of people hating brussel sprouts…well… That’s my headcannon anyway.
In the 1990s, Dutch scientist Hans van Doorn identified the chemicals that make Brussels sprouts bitter: sinigrin and progoitrin.[11] This enabled Dutch seed companies to cross-breed archived low-bitterness varieties with modern high-yield varieties, over time producing a significant increase in the popularity of the vegetable.[12]
Oooooo I owe a lot to Hans van Doorn… I hated brussel sprouts so much when I was a child, I thought it was because I always had them boiled. So modern ones are yummier than they used to.
At first I read his name as Hans Van Doom. Much cooler