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This Fruit Tastes Like Custard
Fans of Central America's olosapo also compare it to butterscotch.
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This Fruit Tastes Like Peanut Butter
The peanut butter fruit looks like a grape tomato, but tastes and smells like the creamy spread.
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The Banana As We Know It Is Dying...Again
Monocultures have defined the banana industry for decades, for good and bad. Will banana producers keep slipping on the same problem?
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Scientists have created orange vitamin-A rich bananas that could save hundreds of thousands of children
Scientists in Australia have created golden-orange-fleshed bananas rich in pro-vitamin A that could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children who die from a deficiency of this vitamin every year. The “biofortified” bananas were developed by taking genes from a species of banana from Papua New Guinea, which is high in provitamin A but only produces small bunches, and combined it with that of a Cavendish banana, the high-yielding species most people are familiar with. Provitamin A is converted by the body into vitamin A.
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Humans Made the Banana Perfect—But Soon, It'll Be Gone
The history of coffee gives us surprising insight into the future of the world's most popular banana. In 1950, most bananas were exported from Central America. Guatemala in particular was a key piece of a vast empire of banana plantations run by the American-owned United Fruit Company. United Fruit Company paid Guatemala’s government modest sums in exchange for land. With the land, United Fruit planted bananas and then did as it pleased. It exercised absolute control not only over what workers did but also over how and where they lived.
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Life-saving fruit and vegetable diet need only be three portions – study
New research reveals daily dose of just 375g of fruit, vegetables and beans are sufficient to reduce risk of stroke, heart disease or premature death, and could help low-income consumers.
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These Genius Fruit Labels Tell Us Why 'Chemical-Free' Is a Useless Term
Australian chemistry teacher James Kennedy wanted to dispel the myth that chemicals are bad for us. He created an ingredient list for natural products, like the banana above, to show that there are many chemicals in our food's natural flavours and colours.
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How farmers put apples into suspended animation
How is it possible to buy apples all year round? Veronique Greenwood investigates the chemical alchemy that puts ripening on hold.
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Guerrilla Grafting: Public Trees Spliced to Bear Edible Fruit
A subversive urban agricultural group in San Francisco is turning ornamental trees into fruit-producing surprises for the local population but while technically breaking the law. A simple incision…
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SRI Spin-off Abundant Robotics Developing Autonomous Apple Vacuum
As an apple fan (the delicious fruit, not the horrible-tasting technology company), I take it for granted that apples will be available to me at affordable prices whenever and wherever I want them. This is because I’m a clueless consumer, who had no idea that in 2012, 4.2 million apples were picked in the United States. By hand. Apple picking is a task that seems like it should be easy to automate: The environment is semistructured, and you’re dealing with objects that are nearly homogenous.
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Getting tomatoes to ripen without going soft
Targeting one gene helps keep the plant's cell wall intact for longer.
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Pomegranates reveal its powerful anti-aging secret
Scientists have managed to prove pomegranates anti-aging potential: intestinal bacteria transform a molecule contained in the fruit with spectacular results. Although tests in humans are still underway, scientists have already published the initial promising results from animal studies in the journal Nature Medicine.
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Scientists invent silk food wrap that could replace cling film
Scientists have invented a cling film-like food wrap made from silk that can preserve fruit for more than a week, as a natural, biodegradeable alternative to plastic. International concern has been growing about plastic waste, particularly the amount that gets into the sea. One estimate is that by 2050 there will more plastic than fish in the world's oceans. Doctors have also warned that containers made from certain kinds of plastics could be harmful to health.
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Silk keeps fruit fresh without refrigeration
Half of the world's fruit and vegetable crops are lost during the food supply chain, due mostly to premature deterioration of these perishable foods, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Tufts University biomedical engineers have demonstrated that fruits can stay fresh for more than a week without refrigeration if they are coated in an odorless, biocompatible silk solution so thin as to be virtually invisible.
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This Is Why You Should Be Eating Banana Peels — Seriously!
Don't throw those banana peels away!
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Day-Off Diet Almond Butter Banana Smoothie
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Clashing clones: how Panama disease is killing the banana
Cavendish bananas saved the entire banana industry a century ago. The then most planted variety “Gros Michel” was being wiped out by the soil-borne fungal pathogen Fusarium oxysporum. The fungus was causing Panama disease, severe and progressive wilting and that eventually lead to plant death. The extinction of the first popular banana was a blow to the developing export trade, to growers and all associated workers and lead to huge societal unrest and economic collapse.
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People around the world are eating banana peels because they know something that Westerners do not
That's right, you can eat banana peels. And not only are they edible — they're also good for you. If you live in the US, you're probably used to tossing banana peels in the trash. But people in other countries, including India, have been taking advantage of their nutritional benefits for decades. While a banana's flesh is soft and sweet, the skin is thick, fibrous, and slightly bitter. To eat the peel, you can either blend it into smoothies or fry...
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Experts are hailing this exotic fruit that tastes like pulled pork as 'miracle' crop, which could save millions from starvation
On the outside, this giant fruit resembles something out of the Jurassic era and emits a sweet yet putrid stench. But don't be fooled: The fruit, known as a jackfruit, is being hailed as a "miracle" crop that could save millions from starvation. And the unique fruit inside of it is just the beginning of the jackfruit's many wonders.
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50 Amazing Benefits of Amla
Amla “the Indian gooseberry” is one such fruit which is enough to cure every heath issue. These days every second person is a target of diseases like diabetes, thyroid, blood pressure, muscle pain, white hair at young age and many such.
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