Carob in Scripture and Religious Traditions
Carob was so prevalent in the daily life of the Eastern Mediterranean that it found its way into religious texts and traditions. In the parable of the Prodigal Son in the New Testament, the pods eaten by pigs are often interpreted as carob; the name "St. John's bread" in English comes from a tradition of interpretation dating back to John the Baptist.
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Carob left its mark in different ways in the two great cultures of the ancient Eastern Mediterranean, the Egyptian and Greek world. The Egyptians used a sign in the form of a carob pod when writing the concept of "sweet"; The Greeks, on the other hand, compared the pod of the tree to the horn and gave it the name that forms the basis of today's scientific name.
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Carat Measurement and Carob Seeds: Myth or Reality?
The sentence "Carob seeds are all the same weight; that's why jewelers used them as scales and carat measurement was born from here" is one of the most repeated carob information on the internet. Some of this sentence is true and some of it is legendary.
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History of Carob
Carob (Ceratonia siliqua) is one of the oldest cultivated trees in the Mediterranean basin. It turned into a sign meaning "sweet" in ancient Egyptian writing, gained a place in the Greek and Roman world as both a food and weight unit, and became widespread in the Middle Ages with the interest of Arab and Andalusian agricultural writers.
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