Vegetables/Fruits Shape

_http://www.celestialhealing.net/internalhealth/foods_look_like_body_parts.htm

I wonder, why does many types of food have same shape as our organs. I don't think its mere coincidence.

Are they some "good pattern" and using that pattern is best choice?
Did those organs always have that shape?
If those organs would have different shapes it wouldn't be able to perform some of their functions?
Dis vegetables were artificially created with that shape so humans would know which food should they take for specific organ?
Or maybe our minds does make them appear like this?
 
This sounds like you're referring to the doctrine of signatures. Wiki link is here: _https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_signatures

As regard to shapes, this seems like confirmation bias. Sure, some plant edibles resemble human organs, but there are a good number that also don't, which are ignored due to a belief system filtering out the incongruent results. I notice in the link you provided that celery is compared to the shape of a foot, which is an enormous stretch - effectively reducing the feet to straight lines branching. Nature only has so many shapes it can take. :lol:

From the wiki article on scientific skepticism:

The signatures are described as post hoc attributions and mnemonics,[8] of value only in creating a system for remembering actions attributed to medical herbs. There is no scientific evidence that plant shapes and colors help in the discovery of medical uses of plants.[8] However, once a medicinal use has been discovered for a particular plant, selective propagation could lead to a resemblance between the herb and the organ system it treats; in Traditional Chinese Medicine, ginseng root's value is largely determined by its resemblance to the human form. Thus, ginseng with a propensity for taking such a shape has been preferentially propagated for thousands of years. In this way, it could be argued that such superstition is practically self-fulfilling, and that the observed similarities are indeed "signatures"—not of the plant's creator, but of its caretakers.[9]
 

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