The tomato has long been a controversial fruit, er, vegetable, though.
And a 15-year-old recently waged a successful campaign to get brominated vegetable oil, a controversial food additive, removed from Gatorade.
As we note in the Introduction, the protective role of the consumption of fruit and vegetables against cancer is controversial.
While Dew certainly packs a lot of caffeine, it derives its fizzy bite from phosphoric, citric, malic and tartaric acids, all kept afloat by a controversial additive known as BVO or brominated vegetable oil.
Only the other week, legendary chef Alice Waters alerted me to a controversial article published in the US on forgotten vegetables.
Epidemiologic investigations evaluating the association of fruit and vegetable consumption with depression risk have yielded controversial results.
Pictures of extremely large vegetables used to support the "Franken-food" image of GMOs are probably not GMOs at all; an unusually large vegetable would more likely be created through less controversial methods of selective breeding or nutrient supplements, not genetic engineering.
In July 2009, a controversial EU ban on fresh produce (26 types of fruit and vegetables) that failed to match standard shapes and sizes – such as bent carrots, curled cucumbers and knobbly potatoes – was lifted.
The influence of dietary factors, such as vegetable, fruit vitamin C, carotenoid, meat and milk product consumption, is controversial [ 10].
Those provisions have emerged as the most controversial aspect of the legislation, pitting organized labor against growers of fruit and vegetables.
