'Space Potatoes' and other fruits and vegetables are all the rage in China right now. The Space Potatoes are assumed to have mutated during China's most recent manned space flights. The potatoes are a little sweet and purple, according to CNN. Other fruits and vegetables, seeds of which were taken into space and presumably mutated, often have different characteristics than their non-space going counterparts. The Chinese claim that the fruits are often healthier, produce higher yields, or are more hardy.

The article also claims that zero gravity caused some of the mutations, which sounds like BS to this Biology minor. Plus it's amazing that the chance mutations of exposure to space radiation produced only beneficial mutations. Perhaps I should take my semen into space and birth the first superman. Certainly I wouldn't spawn any armless children?

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