b'FUN FACTS ON GRASSESYOU MAY THINK GRASS DOESNT AFFECT YOUR DAILY LIFE TOO MUCH, BUT GRASS ACTUALLY AFFECTS A LOT OF THINGS IN YOUR LIFE, FROM AIR TO ALCOHOL. HERE ATSEED WORLD EUROPE, WE THOUGHT YOUD ENJOY READING SOME OF THE INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE PLANT FAMILY THAT YOULL FIND ON YOUR PLATE, LIKELY EVERY DAY, AND WHICH GROWS ON YOUR LAWN. HERES A COUPLE OF FUN GRASS FACTS WE BET YOU DIDNT KNOW.A Huge Family The Family that Helped OK, first things first, if we talk grasses, were officially talkingMake us Humanabout the family PoaceaeGramineae(also called). This isAround 3.5 million years ago, our a very large family of monocotyledonous flowering plantsancestors seem to have changed commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses,their diet from eating exclusively fruits bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and speciesto include grasses. Scientists believe cultivated in lawns and pasture. The latter are commonlythat this change could have been an referred to collectively as grass. And with around 780important factoris the fifth in their survival genera and around 12,000 species, the Poaceaelargest plant family, following the Asteraceae, Orchidaceae,and evolution Fabaceae Rubiaceae and. from hominids to humans. And then, about a million years ago, people began cooking grasses to eat. Its believed this was a key factor in humans growing a larger brain because the cooked starch in seeds provided a huge hit of energy. In the space of a few thousand years there was around a tenfold increase in the world population of humans, largely fuelled by starch.38ISEED WORLD EUROPEISEEDWORLD.COM/EUROPE | SEPTEMBER 2025'