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Two swans relocated from Central Park were the first animals at this Chicago icon.
What is the Lincoln Park Zoo?
The USDA describes this agricultural system as a system that integrates cultural, biological, and mechanical practices that foster cycling of resources, promote ecological balance, and conserve biodiversity.
What is Organic Agriculture?
The USDA adopted this visual simplification of the "idea" American diet in 1992.
What is the Food Pyramid?
Known as the "sunshine vitamin," this essential vitamin supports bone health and immune support.
It is the only continent on Earth that has no historically active volcanoes.
What is Australia?
This Chicago CTA line has the fewest stops of any colored line.
What is the Yellow Line?
All items claiming to not contain these must be verified by third-party (ISO 17025) to be sold at Whole Foods Market.
What are GMOs?
Cilantro may taste like this to people who have a mutation in their OR6A2 gene.
What is soap?
What is a Tomato?
Natural occurring figs are pollinated by the miniature fig species of this, sometimes aggressive, insect.
What is a Wasp?
The Adler, located on Chicago's Museum Campus, is the first building of it's kind in the United States.
What is a planetarium?
These departments require that their products are never given antibiotics, added hormones, or fed animal by-products.
What are meat and dairy (eggs)?
Despite their rather specific name, French Fries were actually created in this country.
What is Belgium?
This crunchy vegetable is famously (and falsely) known as a negative-calorie food.
What is Celery?
These marsupials are the only of their group to be native to North America and cannot carry rabies because of their naturally low body temperature.
What is the (Virginia) Opposum?
Opening for business in 1893, this hotel was declared the most haunted place in Illinois by Travel + Leisure Magazine.
What is the Congress Plaza Hotel?
This Whole Foods Market program includes the Pizzioli, Grocery Expert, and Produce Professional certifications.
What is the Apprentice Program?
Derived from the autumn-blooming flower of a Crocus sativus, this is the most expensive spice in the world.
What is Saffron?
These microscopic organic compounds link together in long chains to form every protein in your body.
What are Amino Acids?
Weighing approximately 8 pounds, this is the human body's largest organ.
What is Skin?
Kurt Russell and William Baldwin play Chicago firefighters in this 1991 Thriller.
What is Backdraft?
The ability to track fish and shellfish through every stage of the supply chain, from the original catch or farm harvest to the final point of sale.
What is traceability?
This fruit is known as "the king of fruits" in much of Southeast Asia.
What is Durian?
Atomic Number 53, discovered by chemist Bernard Courtois, is essential in thyroid hormone creation and fetal brain development. It can be found in seafood, dairy, and some salts.
What is Iodine?
This weird little sushi fish, also known as Fugu, can contain a deadly neurotoxin if prepared incorrectly. Chef's usually have to train for three years before being allowed to prepare it for serving.
What is a Pufferfish?