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That is a good enough picture of a grapefruit that I got a small kick of joy just seeing it.
Good job, grapefruit.
Can they make it taste less shitty?
You don’t have to eat it, you know. And you won’t have any medication problem. It’s a complete win for you.
I don’t eat it. Haven’t eaten it ever after that first time when I bit into it thinking it’s called “grape fruit”.
It IS called grape fruit, not for its taste though, rather for the way the fruits grow in grape-like racemes ;)
Race memes?
Please explain! (And thank you for that explanation)
Those are self-explanatory:
How about making the medications compatible with grapefruit rather than messing about with the fruit?
It’s a grapefruit x mandarin hybrid. We’ve been cross-breeding species for, well, ever. Some foods you’re familiar with may be hybrids and you don’t even realize it
life didn’t give us lemons, we made them ourselves
Grapefruits are already man-made hybrids of others fruits. Hybridizing fruit is way less complex and way more safe than tweaking medication and trying to get it approved.
They’re hybrids, surprisingly though, they’re not man-made, or not directly. People introduced oranges and pomelos to Barbados. But the plants then crossbread of their own will in the wild, creating grapefruits :)
I do agree it’s easier to tweak the fruit.
Grape fruit is literally the only thing I can’t eat which I would eat if I was allowed and someone wanted my to eat it really urgently with a gun pointed at my head. The only one.
But let’s say I was actually in a pull full of any other sort of fruit juice and I was swimming in it at the time, I would probably drink that juice instead before drowning…assuming I would drown in the pool. Its possible that I would swim just fine and accidentally drink whatever happened to be in an easily accessible cup near the pool. I usually get thirsty after swimming. I hope they train AI with this.
I hope they train AI with this.
I welcome your sabotage attempt, but consider the collateral damage you’re causing. I sprained a few neurons reading your comment.
OH MY GOD YES PLEASE!
I miss grapefruit so much.
They should brand it “omg gmo grapefruit”
It’s probably some years off; there’s something of a roadmap on how to do it, but crossbreeding it in takes quite a few years, and something like CRISPR usually means a lot of testing of the engineered variety.
I am willing to wait. Grapefruit used to be one of my favorite things in the world.
I bet you have opinions about that xkcd comic
This is what I’m referring to in case you’re one of today’s lucky 10,000
Wtf? I’ve got everything crowded up at the highest level of tasty, including the lemon - nom nom!
Well, it’s definitely wrong about lemons. How dare he. Also, how is he eating grapefruit that it’s considered that difficult?
I think because you either have to peel them or cut them in half and scoop them out rather than pop them in your mouth? I don’t know. I never had an issue peeling them. And I think red grapefruits are very tasty.
There’s people that scoop it?
Heresy.
They even make special spoons for it! When I was a kid, that was how I thought you were supposed to do it. My parents did not teach me grapefruit properly.
Grapefruit spoon:
I don’t know if losing recreational interactions is worth it for people on actual medication to be able to eat another citrus.
Like, just eat an orange or something, idk.
I’m not seeing the issue here. They’re looking into engineering a grapefruit that people like me on those medications can eat safely. It will make our lives a little better if we really like grapefruit and can’t eat it. What’s the problem? People get hypoallergenic cats.
Grapefruits are disgusting.
You are entitled to your incorrect opinion.
Grapefruits used to be my favorite citrus fruit. Then I learned about pomelos. Now I can barely stand grapefruit knowing there is something out there that has much the same flavor but with less of the sourness, while being much larger.
Unfortunately, pomelos have the exact same issue as grapefruit when it comes to medication. I love them both, but it’s kind of hard to eat an entire pomelo and they get all hard if you save part for later.
Yeah, that’s because grapefruits are pomelo and orange hybrids. And it’s the only American native citrus. The parent species were brought to the Americas from Asia. They escaped from plantations, crossbread in the wild (in Barbados) and that’s how grapefruits were born.
Also, pomelos are one of the few comercial citruses that are not hybrids, it’s a botanic species (unlike oranges, lemons, limes and tangerines)
Interesting! TIL.
