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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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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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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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This Fruit Tastes Like Custard
Fans of Central America's olosapo also compare it to butterscotch.
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The Secret Cherry taking over Canada
Able to survive temperatures as low as -40C, Saskatchewan’s prairie cherries are tarter than traditional sweet cherries and can be eaten straight from the tree.
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Japanese Melons Fetch Record-Breaking $29,000 at Auction
This might be the one time in your adult life when it’s appropriate to say “Nice melons” to a stranger. Over the weekend, a pair of Yubari melons sold for a record-breaking ¥3.2 million (US $29,436) at an auction held in the city of Sapporo. The two melons were bought by Shinya Noda, the president of a fruit and vegetable packing company.
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Health Advantages of Eating Coconut
First and foremost, it must be understood that this fruit – yes, it is a fruit – can be consumed in more than one way. While some people prefer to eat the fruit raw, there are others who prefer to drink it in its water or milk form.
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Ripe And Unripe Bananas Have Different Health Benefits. Here's Which to Choose
While some people like their bananas green, others love a mushy brown banana. But is there really a difference between the two?
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Science’s search for a super banana
A fruit bowl favourite and a staple food to millions, the banana is under threat from a formidable foe
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People hiding needles in strawberries in Australia have started putting them in other fruit too
Over the past week, people in Australia have started noticing needles hidden in fruit: first in strawberries, and now in an apple and a bananas. Two people who accidentally ate the needles had to go to hospital, and the trend has thrown the Australian fruit industry into crisis.
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The banana is dying. The race is on to reinvent it before it's too late
The world's most popular fruit is facing extinction, and scientists are racing to use gene-editing to save it. To succeed, they'll need to overcome an even bigger problem: opposition to GMO crops
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What kind of fruit is avocado?
A fruit is the matured ovary of a flower. Basically, it consists of the ovary wall, or pericarp, which encloses one or more seeds (see figure right). The pericarp is differentiated into three layers of tissues: the outer layer is exocarp, which commonly is called the skin or rind. The middle layer is mesocarp which, generally,makes up the bulk of the pericarp. The inner layer is endocarp which, in some fruits is tough, leathery or hard, in other fruits is soft or fleshy.
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Virus lurking inside banana genome has been destroyed with CRISPR
Genome editing has been used to destroy a virus that lurks inside many of the bananas grown in Africa. Other teams are trying to use it to make the Cavendish bananas sold in supermarkets worldwide resistant to a disease that threatens to make it impossible to grow this variety commercially in future.
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The Only 5 Weight Loss Friendly Foods You Need to Know About - When Women Inspire
Dieting doesn’t need to involve starving; it just takes choosing the right weight loss friendly foods. They can help you shave excess pounds and also boost your overall health.
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23 Foodies & Nutrition Experts Share Their Favorite Smoothie Recipes
These 23 food bloggers & nutrition experts share their favorite smoothie recipes for a tasty breakfast, lunch, or anytime snack.
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The banana is one step closer to disappearing
A fungus that devastates banana plants has now arrived in Latin America, the Colombian government confirms.
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Alarm as devastating banana fungus reaches the Americas
The region produces most of the world’s banana exports — and the fungus affects the most popular commercial variety.
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Move over, Honeycrisp: New apple to debut at grocery stores
Cosmic Crisp is the first apple ever bred in Washington state, which grows the majority of the United States' apples. It's expected to be a game changer.
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Banana agri-waste converted into biodegradable, recyclable plastic
The bunches of bananas that we buy in stores grow off of a central trunk-like structure, known as the pseudostem. And while that part of the plant is typically discarded during harvesting, it may soon find use in a plastic that biodegrades and is fully recyclable.
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After 20 years in development, a new red apple might be your favorite fruit
Will the Cosmic Crisp unseat Gala as America's most popular apple?
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