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Giving fruit a nutritional boost

Blue tomatoes, pink bananas and red-fleshed apples. Meet the next generation of healthy fruits.

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Figure 1: Scarlet to the core.

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Figure 2: Taste tester.

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Figure 3: Gold standard.

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Gruber, K. Giving fruit a nutritional boost. Nature Plants 2, 16191 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.191

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