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This change in colour also applies when glancing over an aisle of bright bell peppers. Our eyes help us find our favoured ripeness and sweetness. Green peppers, with more chlorophyll, are less sweet. As they turn yellow and red, the peppers become sweeter.
When we’re enjoying a salad, a brown piece of wilted lettuce or kale is almost always discarded. And our eyes tell us the lawn is overdue for some maintenance when the colour darkens.
So although we may not reside in the forests anymore, our keen perception of green continues to play a significant role in keeping us healthy.
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At fist our ancestors lived in the forests full of greenary.As they scavenged for food, the ability to differentiate its colour among the other colours of nature evolved.
The evolution of eyesight and the increasing ability to detect colour with fine detail gave our primate ancestors an evo...
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Humans are trichromats, meaning we perceive three primary colours: blue, green and red. The retina in a human eye can detect light between wavelengths of 400 nanometres (lowest-violet) and 700 nanometres(highest-red), a range known as the visible spectrum.
In the middle of the spectrum resi...
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Bananas, though widely considered to be a yellow fruit, start off as green due to the presence of chlorophyl. Just as grass and leaves have chlorophyll to give them colour, so do fruits.
Located in the cells of plants, chlorophyl plays a crucial role in photosynthesis, allowing plants to ha...
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Green, the mixture of blue and yellow, can be seen everywhere and in countless shades. In fact, the human eye sees green better than any colour in the spectrum.
In the Bible, meaning of colour green is immortality because green is obtained by mixing yellow (trials) with blue (Word of god). ...
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