The British shape vegetables as they grow, or how to teach children to eat healthy

The British shape vegetables as they grow, or how to teach children to eat healthy

The principle is simple: you slide a plastic tube in the desired shape onto a small fruit, and as the fruit grows, it takes shape. According to the seller, you can use the product excellently for fast-growing crops, such as cucumbers, which you can shape even in a week.

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The sales promotion for Suttons Horticulture and Seeds in Devon is comical. Plastic vegetable wrappers are sold as a substitute for the sweets that are commonly given on Valentine's Day.

The British shape vegetables during growth, or how teach children to eat healthily

However, the spokesman for the seed industry sensibly adds that shaped vegetables could be a way to make healthy foods more attractive, for example to children, who often refuse them.

As an interest, the shaping could interest home growers and as a birthday present they could try to grow a similar gift. And you definitely don't have to write in Devon, but you could try ordinary thin Plexiglas or a thicker thermoplastic film, which you can bend with a little skill, for example with a heat gun.

Plastic molds are not exactly cheap - like any fashion item. A set of four pieces of stars and hearts costs 10 pounds (approx. 330 crowns), for larger sets the price per piece is proportionally reduced according to the number of pieces sold.

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