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Hello, this is Minute English from BBC Learning English.

I'm Neil, and I'm Sam Calets.

Collie shoots and tender stems. Can you guess what they are?

Sam Umm. Well, they sound like the names of pop groups to me.

Yes. Well, good guess. But in fact, the truth is even stranger.

Their varieties of vegetable being grown in the Uks by a new generation of fruit and vege growers.

Forget traditional carrots, leaks and potatoes.

Vegetables today are getting a modern makeover, thanks to breeding methods, which makes two different plants to produce something completely new, known as a hybrid.

The hybrid collect e.g., is a mix between kale and a brussel sprout.

Tender stems are a mix of traditional broccoli with the type of Chinese kale.

Ancholy shoots are small green stems with many collarflower heads shooting out the side.

These exciting new varieties, which look very different from traditional vegetables, are increasingly popular on farms, in shops and in restaurants across the UK.

In this program, we'll hear all about these new vegetables and the people who grow, cook and eat them.

And as usual, we'll be learning some new vocabulary as well.

Sounds good, sam, but 1st, I have a question for you.

One of the 1st hybrids on sale in the UK was named cotton candy because of its sweet caramel flavor.

But is cotton candy? A-A, cherry, B-A?

Strawberry? Or see a grape? Well, if it's sweet, I guess it's a strawberry.

OK, well, we'll reveal the answer later in the program.

The colettes, which Sam mentioned earlier, were introduced to the British market in under the name flower sprouts.

They were advertised as a healthy vegetable that could be cooked or even raw, and became extremely popular.

The inventor of the kolette is Jamie Claxton, one of the uk's top seed producers and head of plant breeding firm Tosa Seeds.

Here's Jamie chatting with Leila Kazim, presenter of BBC radio, fors the food program.

And so how did the idea of the killer even come about in the 1st place?

We do a quite a lot of blue sky breeding, where we just try wacky stuff and see what happens looking at a sprout and account.

And I can do something inside, like this.

Whole of the Brassica family, those are all Brassic roller races, cows, cauliflowers.

And just thinking how, obviously we knew they would cross pollen, they easily and produce unusual veg And we were just kind of thinking, we need to create something that's more modern.

You know, brusselsprouts and cows are very traditional.

Throw our few things in together in a mixing pot and see what comes out.

Jamie says, kolette, with the result of blue sky breeding.

This phrase comes from another expression, blue sky thinking, which means using your imagination to try to come up with completely new and original ideas.

Some of jamie's plants were wacky, unusual in a funny or surprising way, but this was all part of the fun of breeding and growing new vegetables.

Jamie threw his ideas into the mixing pot, a place where different ideas mingle together to create something new.

Hybrid vegetables add exciting new colors and tastes to traditional veg such as the deep purple leaves of Rainbowcale or the sweet, nutty flavor of a collie shoot.

As a result, they have become fashionable with many British chefs, including Jack Stein, son of TV, chef Rick, who runs a restaurant in the seaside town of Padsto in Cornwall.

Here is presenter a BBC radio fors the food program, layla Cuisine.

Again, talking to Jack about what makes a great new vegetable.

When you're looking at new varieties of veg are there any particular traits that you're looking for that will help in the kitchen?

I mean, obviously it's going to be done to taste, really and it's going to be done to what it looks like on the plate.

So the color, the texture, the taste and all these things are really important.

But I think novelty and things like the carelets were great.

I mean, they were originally called Flower Sprouts Jack names.

Two features of great hybrid vege 1st, there's the texture, the way something feels when you touch it.

And 2nd, novelty, the fact that something is new and unusual, added to the surprising way many new varieties look.

And of course, their great taste.

Modern vegetables have provided a welcome new addition to traditional British cooking.

And don't forget the unusual names too, sam, like the cotton candy fruit I asked you about in my question.

Yes, I guessed cotton candies where a new variety of strawberry was I right?

You were wrong, I'm afraid. So, in fact, cotton candy is a variety of

grape, so called because they're very sweet and taste like you've been to the Fairgrund.

OK, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned from this program about new vegetable hybrids, plants which have been grown by mixing two different plants together.

Blue sky Thinking involves using your imagination to try and think up original ideas.

Something which is unusual, in a funny or surprising way, could be described as wacky.

The mixing pot is a place where different ideas or ingredients get mixed to create something new.

And texture means the way something feels when you touch it.

And finally, novelty is the quality of being new or unusual.

If you've enjoyed this program, why not take the taste test by cooking some hybrid vegetables yourself?

And remember to join us again soon for more trending topics and useful vocabulary.

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