Plants have been selected and bred for millennia to become what we know them today. In a world where optimizing our health and wellness is big business, food and nutrition have been twisted using pseudoscience to mislead us. We will be focusing on the world of plants to examine how we got the foods we have, what we know about them, and how these facts are being misconstrued. We will find out why certain plants are successful in our food systems and culture, and how they have changed through traditional domestication, migration, and genetic modification. We will consider how old food systems and new nutritional science can be at odds within modern society, and how we can fact-check the science and pseudoscience around food. Classes will consist of introductory lectures to introduce a plant family or genus and how each plant was foundational to early agriculture and understood in the broader society. After each lecture, students will fact-check me, to see where I overstated, misrepresented, or accurately conveyed the facts. Ultimately, we are aiming to highlight the importance of plant foods in daily life while thinking critically about how they are hijacked for ulterior motives.