Can You Identify These Foods By Their Close-Up Images?

Our test kitchen mom Nicole McLaughlin can take on anything. She's the queen of cooking, mom extraordinaire, and laugh out loud hilarious. This week on Mom Versus, Nicole got her hands on a microscope to investigate how foods look super up close and personal. Do you think you can tell what these microscopic images of foods are? Just remember, things aren't always as they appear.

At a microscopic level, an almond looks almost like the crust of a good bread. But it's really just a brown skin covered in little salt crystals.

There was nothing moving in the rotten part of this fruit (thank goodness!), but it looked almost like the view of Earth from another planet. Nicole tossed that one right away.

It might look fine on your counter, but pineapples have a lot of hiding places for bacteria. Believe it or not, this close up image is revealing a very dirty situation. Wash your pineapples, people.

We're going to make sure we peel these babies well next time. That flaky skin does not look appetizing.

This one is pretty gross on the regular, but close up it's even worse. Nicole found through the microscope little bugs were crawling all over the moldy part of the onion... Yeah, not cute.

Nicole isn't a big fan of the way cooked bacon looks this close up, but she has no problem with it on her plate at breakfast. She thinks it looks "grossly like skin," and you can really see the oily residue. Moral of the story: We'd rather just eat some than take a close look.

The little bits of green on this watery veg might have given it away, so grab your tub of peanut butter and get dipping.

Look at those hairs! Yes, it's a strawberry. A favorite summer fruit.

It's obviously some kind of leafy green, but did you know that's what basil looks like on a super small scale?

Nicole says this "looks like skin that has rosacea," but it seemed clean of any bugs or tiny moving bits. We'd bite right into that for sure.

The gills on this fungi are pretty clear, but it's definitely not a fish.

The inside of an apple is exactly how you would expect it—juicy and watery. Even browner parts seemed to be safe to eat.

Nicole describes the raw bacon as resembling "an old person's skin." And yes, you can really see the fat trapped in there. Better get cooking!