Why aren't plants black? 🌿

It's a bit misleading to say that the most common color in sunlight is green.

First of all, you have to distinguish wavelength-space and frequency-space. In the video, we were shown the intensity of light as a function of wavelength, if we were shown the exact same graph as a function of frequency, the peak would no longer be in the "green", it would be in the infra-red.

So what is the dominant color in sunlight? It turns out the answer depends on whether you're looking at wavelengths or frequencies. More info here :

http://sciencequestionswithsurprisinganswers.org/2013/07/03/what-is-the-color-of-the-sun/