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Media: Eggs as food. Fried eggs and carrots with Parmesan and cream. Humans and their hominid relatives have consumed eggs for millions of years. [ 1] The most widely consumed eggs are those of fowl, especially chickens. People in Southeast Asia began harvesting chicken eggs for food by 1500 BCE. [ 2]
Many foods were originally domesticated in West Africa, including grains like African rice, Pearl Millet, Sorghum, and Fonio; tree crops like Kola nut, used in Coca-Cola, and Oil Palm; and other globally important plant foods such as Watermelon, Tamarind, Okra, Black-eye peas, and Yams. [ 2] Additionally, the regionally important poultry animal ...
Egg. Eggs of various birds, a reptile, various cartilaginous fish, a cuttlefish and various butterflies and moths. (Click on image for key) Diagram of a chicken egg in its ninth day. Membranes: allantois, chorion, amnion, and vitellus/yolk. An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to ...
Poultry. Poultry ( / ˈpoʊltri /) are domesticated birds kept by humans for the purpose of harvesting animal products such as meat, eggs or feathers. [ 1] The practice of raising poultry is known as poultry farming. These birds are most typically members of the superorder Galloanserae ( fowl ), especially the order Galliformes (which includes ...
Food history. Food history is an interdisciplinary field that examines the history and the cultural, economic, environmental, and sociological impacts of food and human nutrition. It is considered distinct from the more traditional field of culinary history, which focuses on the origin and recreation of specific recipes.
A selection of uncooked red meat, pork and poultry, including beef, chicken, bacon and pork chops. Meat is animal tissue, often muscle, that is eaten as food. Humans have hunted and farmed other animals for meat since prehistory. The Neolithic Revolution allowed the domestication of animals, including chickens, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, and ...
e. The evolution of mammals has passed through many stages since the first appearance of their synapsid ancestors in the Pennsylvanian sub-period of the late Carboniferous period. By the mid- Triassic, there were many synapsid species that looked like mammals. The lineage leading to today's mammals split up in the Jurassic; synapsids from this ...
Food is a basic necessity of life, and humans typically seek food out as an instinctual response to hunger; however, not all things that are edible constitute as human food. Display of various foods. Humans eat various substances for energy, enjoyment and nutritional support. These are usually of plant, animal, or fungal origin, and contain ...