Meet Your New Gene-Edited Salad

Mustard greens that have been genetically altered to remove their pungent flavor are coming to US grocery stores.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Pairwise, an agricultural biotechnology company, created Conscious Greens Purple Power Baby Greens Blend, the first CRISPR-edited food available to U.S. consumers

• The company used CRISPR, or Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat, to edit mustard greens’ DNA, removing a gene that gives them their pungent flavor

• The green…