Are stores selling cloned fruits and vegetables?

Answer 1

Probably more than your realize. I garden and take cuttings (suckers, actually) from my tomato plants and root them, so this effectively is a clone of the original plant.

Also, when fruit trees and fruits grown on woody canes or vines (berries, grapes) are produced, often shoots from a desirable plant are grafted onto hardy rootstock (which makes them more tolerant of colder conditions) so the new growth that's produced is a "clone" of the plant the graft material was taken from. So in this sense, cloning has been done for centuries.

I believe that what you may be considering as cloning (as a "bad" thing) is when genetically modified organisms are produced (those to which the first answer refers) - these are the foods that have been produced using injected hormones or have the DNA of unrelated organisms inserted into their DNA to increase size, disease resistance, nutritional value, etc.

Answer 2

Cloning has long been used in the floral trade. The majority of orchids you see for sale are clones. Cloning has long been used in the growing of grapes.

Winegrape Varieties and Clones
http://winegrapes.tamu.edu/grow/varieties.shtml

http://amos.indiana.edu/library/scripts/groceryclones.html

Answer 3

yes because most plants are cloned!! don't worry, humans have been cloning plants for ages. even the cells in your body are clones of one another.

maybe you're thinking "genetically modified"?