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The Tiniest Hamburgers

Posted by Adam Kuban, July 16, 2007 at 1:30 PM

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To answer the burning question of what the constituent components of a burger look like magnified, Michael Davidson of Florida State University put up a web page detailing microscopic views of onion cells, cooked beef cells (above), a wheat kernel, cheese, potato starch granules, and lettuce tissue. My new question for Davidson: What about the pickles, ketchup, and mustard? [via the L.A. Times]

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