Three Stories of Green in Quotation Marks

Most of our planet is green thanks to chlorophyll, the amazing pigment that allows many microbes and plants to make their own food. People have been working on using the chemistry of chlorophyll for other applications. So which is the true chlorophyll based innovation? Is it a gut imaging, smoothy, a plant ish base, laundry detergent, or a less frustrating cooking experience on your nice green pans?

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Grass... money... Ninja Turtles... some of the best things in the world are all the same color: green! This week, we're taking a deeper look at this most verdant of colors.

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https://www.wired.com/2012/06/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-ii/

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Green spaces reduce systolic blood pressure

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721075914?via%3Dihub

https://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/about.htm#:~:text=The%20second%20number%2C%20called%20diastolic,%E2%80%9C120%2F80%20mmHg.%E2%80%9D

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