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In 1800, French candy makers used the sap of the marshmallow plant combined with egg whites and sugar to create the very first marshmallows. Doctors used a very similar recipe to heal a sore throat and soothe a cough.
The pineapple starts out as a multi-fruit by producing up to 200 flowers. The flowers turn into interlocking spirals of berries and attach to the stem. They are typically arranged in a 8 by 13 matrix, both numbers being part of the Fibonacci sequence.