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infographic illustrating how in 1903, there were literally hundreds of varieties of popular foods like lettuce, cabbage, corn, squach and tomatoes, whereas most of those varieties had all but disappeared by 1983, with the varieties numbering in the tens by that point.. lettuce went from 497 varieties to 36, radishes from 463 to 27, beets from 288 to 17, sweet corn from 307 to only twelve.