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3 Superfruits Coming Soon to a Juice Bar Near You
Meet the newly minted health-food darlings—sweet, tangy, and packing the kind of superior wellness benefits that will make you forsake your açai smoothie.
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Here's The Scoop On Jackfruit, A Ginormous Fruit To Feed The World
It's not every fruit that gets its own international symposium. Then again, the jackfruit is not your typical fruit. It's got a distinctive, musky smell, and a flavor that some describe as like Juicy Fruit gum. It is the largest tree fruit in the world, capable of reaching 100 pounds. And it grows on the branches — and the trunks — of trees that can reach 30, 40, 50 feet. (Trunk-growing is a good thing because it reduces the odds of a jackfruit bopping you on the head.)
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Nectarine Recipes: 20 Ways to Get Your Stone Fruit Fix
Nectarines: So seasonal, so summery, but most of all? So versatile! Get your nectarine fix while you can with these 20 delish recipes.
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'Super' banana to face first human trial
A super-enriched banana genetically engineered to improve the lives of millions of people in Africa will soon have its first human trial, which will test its effect on vitamin A levels, Australian researchers said Monday.
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How to Prep and Eat 14 Intimidating Fruits + Veggies
Let's face it — the produce aisle can be scary. Once you get past the apples, oranges, bananas and celery, fruits and veggies can get hairy (literally). It's time to face your fears and learn how to tackle intimidating produce once and for all. It's easier than you think. We promise.
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"Super Bananas" Enter U.S. Market Trials
While testing crops are legal, it's unlikely farmers will be persuaded to convert to the new bananas without a way to physically sell the fruit
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Peaches Sold as Sexy Butts in China
Peaches have long been compared to backsides. Because, well, peaches look like tushes! And now, thanks to some fruit venders in China, they really look like butts. Sexy butts. These peaches are apparently being sold to capitalize on the the upcoming romantic Qixi Festival. They're a novelty present! And should be taken as such. But, they aren't cheap: A box of nine panty fruit is 498 yuan or US$80.
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Honey-Nectarine Cheesecake
At the end of summer, there’s no more tantalizing smell than the floral aroma of a ripe nectarine. This surprisingly light no-bake cheesecake is sweetened with honey, a natural partner to stone fru...
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Peeling A Pineapple Clean And Easy
How fast can you peel a pineapple? Pineapple seller in Bankerohan market Davao City. Peeling time approx. 50 seconds. They Do This In Davao and Other Parts of Mindanao too.
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Fruit intake reduces risk of heart disease
Daily fruit consumption can cut the risk of overall death by 32 per cent and cardiovascular disease (CVD) by up to 40 per cent, according to a new Oxford study. The findings from the seven year follow-up study of nearly 0.5 million people in the China Kadoorie Biobank found that the more fruit people ate, the more their risk of CVD declined.
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Witch Finger Grapes
They call these grapes Witch Fingers and they taste just like normal grapes but have a weird shape that is more like peppers than grapes.
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Eat Bananas Regularly to Prevent Stroke after Menopause: Study
Binge on bananas to cut the risk of stroke after menopause, advises a research. Recently, experts at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York discovered that eating food that are high in potassium alleviates the possibility of suffering a stroke in post-menopausal women by 12 percent. They investigated health status and dietary habits of over 90,000 women aged between 50 to 79 for a period of 11 years.
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The Awful Reign of the Red Delicious
At the supermarket near his home in central Virginia, Tom Burford likes to loiter by the display of Red Delicious. He waits until he spots a store manager. Then he picks up one of the glossy apples and, with a flourish, scrapes his fingernail into the wax: T-O-M.
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How the global banana industry is killing the world’s favorite fruit
Scientists first discovered the fungus that is turning banana plants into this rotting, fibrous mass in Southeast Asia in the 1990s. Since then the pathogen, known as the Tropical Race 4 strain of Panama disease, has slowly but steadily ravaged export crops throughout Asia. The fact that this vicious soil-borne fungus has now made the leap to Mozambique and Jordan is frightening.
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Here's what 9,000 years of breeding has done to corn, peaches, and other crops
Fruits and vegetables have changed a lot since the onset of agriculture 10,000 years ago, as generation after generation of farmers artificially bred crops to select for more desirable traits like size and taste.
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Stop going cuckoo for coconuts
We've entered the age of the coconut. While the lactose intolerant quaff Starbucks' new coconut milk lattes, the gluten averse are busy baking with coconut flour. The number of coconut oil products—for both cooking and skin moisturizing—grew by 800 percent between 2008 and 2012.
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Unpeeling the Controversial History of Bananas
On Friday, shareholders for banana empire Chiquita will vote on a merger with European fruit distributor Fyffes, a decision that would create the world’s largest banana-selling company, to be headquartered in Ireland. Not because bananas grow plentifully in County Cork or the hills of Connemara, or because bananas are replacing potatoes anytime soon. It’s more likely because Ireland has among the lowest corporate tax rates in the banana-eating world.
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The rise and fall of orange juice
Despite the advice of dietitians, many of us still start the day with a glass of orange juice. Yet orange juice, and in fact the entire citrus growing industry, is in serious peril. Citrus greening disease wiped out the citrus industry in Asia and is damaging it in the US, and Australia could be next warns Professor David Mabberley.
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Summer Peach Pie
When peaches reach their peak in summer, showcase the fruit by serving it in this simple yet pretty pie. Serve it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream to beat the summer heat. Summer Peach Pie ...
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This Crazy Tree Grows 40 Kinds of Fruit
Sam Van Aken, an artist and professor at Syracuse University, uses "chip grafting" to create trees that each bear 40 different varieties of stone fruits, or fruits with pits...
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