How to eat pineapple buns on the immigration ship

Chapter 201 The Concept of Green Food

Wow!
Hearing what Hill said, the students of the Agricultural University Attached High School instantly brightened up, especially the greedy Class 8 of Grade 1. They looked at the red tomatoes hanging in the field with hungry eyes. It seemed that as long as Hill gave the order, they would immediately rush over and eat a tomato left and right.

Butler Hill was worthy of her title as butler. She quickly recovered from the taste shock brought by the tomatoes. She looked around and saw the people sitting on the floating platforms around her with shining eyes. Need I say what they were thinking?

She looked at the tomato field in front of her.

This field has a good harvest this year. The tomatoes on the ground are bright red and very tempting, and the fruit-bearing rate is also very gratifying. When the AI-operated harvester comes over later, it will be no problem to harvest a whole container of large tomatoes.

In theory, it wouldn't be a problem to pick some for the students to try, but... who can guarantee that they will be satisfied with just one tomato?

Steward Hill looked at the tomato in his hand, then looked at the students around him who were drooling frantically, and announced without hesitation -

"Okay, we've finished touring the tomato field, now let's go check out the cucumbers!"

How could this happen——!
Amid the students' wails, Manager Hill used her authority without hesitation to operate the floating platform to allow the students to catch up, leaving them no wiggle room at all.

At this time, Kagawa was quietly biting on the second tomato that she had just picked when Manager Hill wasn't paying attention. Of course, her little action was immediately discovered by Ouyang Yating and the other two, but they didn't say anything. Ino quietly took out a mini compressed laser cutter and cut the tomato that Kagawa had bitten in half. The part that Kagawa had bitten belonged to her, and the rest was shared by the three members of the Tongue Club and the people from Class 8 of Grade 1 who came over to smell the fragrance.

After eating a small piece of tomato, the students in Class 8 of Grade 1 looked at the tomato field behind them with even more eager eyes.

In response, Kagawa couldn't help but speak out his true feelings: "If you want to eat tomatoes so much, why don't you go home and ask the AI ​​at home or go to the market to buy some for yourself?"

Modern food preservation technology and material conversion technology have enabled the Twelve Fleets to supply the average consumption of the population for 30,000 years. Even judging from the draft of the reduction in the production of escort ships, agricultural production capacity may even be in a state of excess.

It’s not so hard to buy even a tomato.

"You don't understand! The ones bought at the market are not as tasty as those picked on the spot! Whether it's chicken, fish, vegetables or tomatoes, they taste better when they are cooked right after they are processed!"

At this time, the cultural and arts committee member Mandy looked at Kagawa with the eyes of a young man who didn't understand anything.

Class monitor Lu Daiqing, labor committee member Fu Chengkai and other boys nodded in agreement.

"Oh, so you guys like farm stays and green food?" Kagawa endured it for a long time before he didn't roll his eyes at him.

Tsk, isn't this the concept of green food that people in the 21st century love to pursue? Cultivating fields in the countryside, building sheds on the rooftop to grow vegetables. When she was still a social animal, she had seen enough of this in short videos.

To be honest, it is healthy, but it is not suitable for office workers. Office workers either work 996 or 007, with one day off a week or even no days off at all. They spend more time in the company than at home. Sometimes, many people simply live in the company before the deadline. How can they have the time to take care of these vegetables? So most of them still go to the market to buy them.

Only middle-aged and elderly people who have achieved time freedom and a certain degree of economic freedom would like to think about these things. Those who have the conditions can grow their own food, while those who don’t can occasionally go to the countryside in the suburbs to live for a few days and eat some local chickens or vegetables grown by farmers themselves.

She originally thought that in modern times, when biotechnology has developed to the point where pests and pesticides can be completely eliminated, residents would not think that there is any difference between vegetables grown in the fields and those displayed in the market. However, she did not expect that there would be so many young people in her class who advocate the concept of green vegetables.

Perhaps it is because things nurtured by the land have a natural attraction to humans?
"Green food? What's that?"

Ino asked the biggest question on everyone's mind.

Upon hearing the new term, everyone in Class 8 of Grade 1 gathered again near the floating platform where the four members of the Tongue Club were, for fear of missing out on Kagawa's small class on ancient knowledge.

"Let me make it clear first, this is just my general understanding, not a formal explanation." Kagawa skillfully said this stacked armor declaration that has become a bit boring recently.

Mainly, as Kagawa brought up more and more recipes, movies and TV series, the various questions asked by people around him have entered areas that Kagawa cannot understand. For example, when eating porridge this morning, Wu Zongguan's question about the efficacy of porridge almost hit Kagawa's blind spot in knowledge.

What are the benefits of porridge? It is easy to digest and suitable for patients to eat when they are sick. This is what Kagawa knows about the benefits of porridge.

As a 21st century office worker, how could she know so many reasons? Even if the Geegle in her terminal knew, she couldn't just take out the terminal and open the Geegle to search directly in public, right? Then the Information Chaos Processing Office would come to arrest her that day, and she would probably be confined to the government's small piece of land for the rest of her life. She wanted to lie down, but that didn't mean she had to sacrifice her freedom.

So now sometimes when she explains something that can only be explained based on Kagawa's shallow knowledge, she will add this sentence to add some emphasis.

Of course, the people who asked her would not care too much about Kagawa's shallow knowledge of ancient knowledge. After all, there was such a long time gap, and Kagawa only came into contact with the parts related to food and entertainment. Not to mention that she was still a student, even if they got the ancient data texts given by Kagawa later, some questions involving the professional knowledge of ancient chemistry and physics would take adults like Xiang Weiguo and Wu Zongguan a long time to understand. Adults with professional knowledge were like this, and Kagawa, who was facing one ancient recipe after another, could only know the results but not the reasons.

After the armor was stacked, Kagawa began to explain the content and rise of green food and farm tourism.

In her impression, the rise of farmhouses is inseparable from the development of cities. During the period when car engines often emitted black smoke, the urban air pollution caused many wealthy city dwellers to go to the countryside to breathe some fresh air.

Later, as agriculture developed, in order to expand the planting area and increase income, many common vegetables and staple foods in daily life were treated with pesticides and chemical fertilizers. This made the dishes on people's tables more abundant, while also stimulating people to pursue higher quality diets.

Some people choose to go to higher-end restaurants and pursue expensive dishes that only rich people can afford, while others do the opposite. At that time, a saying just emerged: natural is the most expensive.

Where can we find natural vegetables and food? Of course, it is in the countryside!

As more and more people go to the countryside to eat, there are farmhouses in the countryside that are specifically designed to entertain city people.

The market smelled a business opportunity and began to launch various so-called "green foods grown without pesticides or fertilizers". The prices were also higher than those of general mechanized vegetable staples.

"But logically speaking, vegetables grown with chemical fertilizers are a more reasonable and efficient way of growing them, right? Why did the ancient people at that time look down on them?"

Qing Ke, who was standing next to the cultural and arts committee member Mandy, raised her hand and asked.

"From our modern perspective, chemical fertilizers are definitely better, because our chemical fertilizers are actually completely converted from biological fertilizers. They are harmless and can protect the fertility of the soil, while also maximizing the flavor of the fruits and vegetables themselves."

As Kagawa spoke, he leaned on the edge of the floating platform and looked at the surrounding farmland full of fruits. He thought that if his parents, who had been farming their entire lives, saw this scene, they would probably burst into tears.

"But the fertilizers in ancient times were literal fertilizers. Although the use of chemically synthesized fertilizers can promote the growth of fruits and vegetables, it will have a certain impact on their flavor. For example..." She shook the tomato she had not finished eating, "Take this tomato as an example. If it was grown with ancient fertilizers, it might still be rosy and plump in appearance, but the taste would be greatly reduced. Based on the ancient records I have seen, I can boldly speculate that the tomatoes at that time were less than half as fragrant and sweet as our current tomatoes."

This is not speculation, but Kagawa's actual experience - of course, she could never say this, after all, modern agriculture is too developed, where can she find tomatoes grown with chemical fertilizers in the 21st century to prove the difference in taste between the two?

However, even though it was only a subjective speculation made by Kagawa, the comparison between the mainstream vegetable flavors in ancient and modern times still opened the eyes of the first-year high school students and refreshed their understanding of ancient times.

Originally, judging from the ancient delicacies that Kagawa took out one by one, the ancient food culture was very rich, which must mean that they were in a peaceful era with no shortage of food, just like we are now. Who would have thought that they were in such a "dire straits".

Fortunately, fortunately, the agricultural scientists who led the Twelve Fleets left behind data and samples of biological fertilizers. Fortunately, these precious data and samples survived the dark virus crisis. Fortunately, the material conversion technology invented by great scientists allowed them to eat the original fruits and vegetables that the ancients coveted, even though their food culture has almost been completely lost 30,000 years later.

Kagawa shared the same gratitude as them, because modern food had become so unpalatable that if even the raw materials, such as fruits and vegetables, had a terrible taste, she would probably really consider reopening the restaurant.

In the novel, the protagonists who traveled back to ancient times could choose to go far into the forest or other areas to look for crop seeds. The fleet they were in had been away from the earth for 20,000 years. Where could they find wild crops?
Nature reserve? Never mind. Every weed in it was probably under the control of the fleet. What could she find there? If she could find a few wild vegetables like she did in the field training, it would be a big harvest.