Or to feel that a bag with ten apples weighs more than a bag with just one.
'More fruit more forceeven very young children have a sensory understanding of size. In a computer game Krause asked them to lift up a platform carrying a few
or many pieces of fruit by pressing a button. Although the amount of force applied to the button did not matter--simply pressing it was pushed adequate--children harder
when there was a lot of fruit on the platform and less hard when there was little fruit on the platform.
Applications in educationkrause believes his results can provide applications in math education.''If numerical size and other body-related size information are represented indeed together in the brain strengthening this link during education might be beneficial.
and international fruit importers to provide data on specimens they found in international cargo that had been submitted to them for identification.
The authors found that the most frequently submitted spiders were the pantropical huntsman spider (Heteropoda venatoria) and the redfaced banana spider (Cupiennius chiapanensis) and that the most common cargo from
which spiders were submitted was bananas with most specimens coming from Central america Ecuador or Colombia. Spiders of medical importance were rare.
Spiders found in international cargo especially those in banana cartons are typically harmless species they wrote.
and media attention whenever a large spider is discovered in a banana shipment and thereby reduce unwarranted paranoia
and anxiety when media stories about toxic banana spiders are unleashed onto an unsuspecting and easily frightened North american general public.
while crop citrus and relatively dry upland forest sequestered the least. Results of the study appear in the September issue of the journal Science of the Total Environment.
#An apple a day could keep obesity awayscientists at Washington state University have concluded that nondigestible compounds in apples--specifically Granny smith apples--may help prevent disorders associated with obesity.
The study thought to be the first to assess these compounds in apple cultivars grown in the Pacific Northwest appears in October's print edition of the journal Food Chemistry.
We know that in general apples are a good source of these nondigestible compounds but there are differences in varieties said food scientist Giuliana Noratto the study's lead researcher.
Results from this study will help consumers to discriminate between apple varieties that can aid in the fight against obesity.
The tart green Granny smith apples benefit the growth of friendly bacteria in the colon due to their high content of nondigestible compounds including dietary fiber and polyphenols and low content of available carbohydrates.
The study showed that Granny smith apples surpass Braeburn Fuji Gala Golden delicious Mcintosh and Red delicious in the amount of nondigestible compounds they contain.
The nondigestible compounds in the Granny smith apples actually changed the proportions of fecal bacteria from obese mice to be similar to that of lean mice Noratto said.
The discovery could help prevent some of the disorders associated with obesity such as low-grade chronic inflammation that can lead to diabetes.
pizza or burger canned fruit and green beans broccoli and milk. Sales data indicated that after the introduction of the new chef-made items 9%more students bought NSLP compliant meals.
and defend against invaders--an important step in preventing pathogens from contaminating fruits and vegetables. Now scientists have discovered that plants may package their commensal bacteria inside of seeds;
For scientific studies it is critical to make sure you're comparing apples to apples. Barnes said the team chose to make its comparison with simple relatively homogenous soil materials to compare results to established hydrologic models that relate water flow to a soil's physical properties like bulk density and porosity.
#Flying doctor bees to prevent cherry diseaseuniversity of Adelaide researchers are introducing a method to use bees to deliver disease control to cherry blossom preventing brown rot in cherries.
and fruit spoilage says project leader and bee researcher Dr Katja Hogendoorn postdoctoral research associate with the University's School of Agriculture Food and Wine.
All commercial cherry growers spray during flowering to control the later development of cherry brown rot.
The'flying doctors'technology is used successfully in Europe to control strawberry grey mould but it's the first time for Australia
With increasing availability of suitable biological control agents future application of the'flying doctors'technology is expected to become available for disease control in almonds grapes strawberry raspberry apple pear
and more fresh foods and creating a pilot program to provide for grants to test the use of incentives to encourage fruit and vegetable purchases by SNAP participants..
Their analyses revealed that compared with low-income nonparticipants SNAP participants had lower dietary quality scores overall and lower scores for fruits
#Fruit and vegetable consumption could be as good for your mental as your physical healthfruit
and found that high and low mental wellbeing were associated consistently with an individual's fruit and vegetable consumption. 33.5%of respondents with high mental wellbeing ate five
or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day compared with only 6. 8%who ate less than one portion.
The data suggest that higher an individual's fruit and vegetable intake the lower the chance of their having low mental wellbeing. 31.4%of those with high mental wellbeing ate three-four portions and 28.4%ate one-two.
but along with smoking only fruit and vegetable consumption was associated consistently in both men and women.
Along with smoking fruit and vegetable consumption was related the health behaviour most consistently associated with both low and high mental wellbeing.
These novel findings suggest that fruit and vegetable intake may play a potential role as a driver not just of physical
Our findings add to the mounting evidence that fruit and vegetable intake could be one such factor
and followed a healthy diet with a regular consumption of fruits vegetables legumes nuts reduced-fat dairy products whole grains and fish.
Less than half of the kids reported consuming fruit vegetables whole grains or low-fat milk. Seventeen per cent reported eating fast food 20 per cent reported eating packaged snack foods and 31 per cent reported drinking sugary drinks daily.
and recommended for a healthy diet are those that have a high amount of nutrients per serving including fruits and vegetables nonfat milk whole grains and fish and other lean proteins.
For example I will feel more full after eating 100 calories of strawberries which are high in water content than after eating 100 calories of pretzels.
This is because the fruit provides about 13 times more food by weight than the pretzels.
The European grape berry moth and the cicada Scaphoideus titanus are considered to be the major pests of cultivated grape.
Now as this science matures researchers are showing that it's useful to compare apples and oranges.
and intensive farmlands consisting of single crops such as sugar cane or pineapple with no adjoining forest areas.
and flowers of plant species such as water-plantain eyebright lousewort bitter root and European yellow-rattle which are weeds commonly present across Europe and Asia.
Their studies have revealed that the larvae of a certain moth species feeding on the fruits
Its usual host plants such as water-plantain also grow in Iran but peculiarly we couldn't find its damage symptoms on them.
which compounds in fruit and vegetables keep humans healthy. The research team are the first to record the continual movement cycle of Nrf2 which sees the protein oscillate in and out of the cell nucleus once every 129 minutes.
which is used on strawberries pome fruit and vine to protect against and treat fungal infestation.
Natural repellants such as clove oil citronella lemon grass eucalyptus castor oil peppermint lavender and cedar oil all work to a limited extent Pitts said
and maintain 28 globally important crops including rice wheat soybean sorghum banana apple citrus fruits grape stone fruits
and Vitis amurensis a wild relative of grape which has been used to improve cold tolerance. Worryingly of these 871 CWR native to China at least 17%are threatened with extinction in China
and Prunus ferganensis the crop wild relative of peach is tolerant to drought conditions. Globally the highest concentration of CWR per unit area is found in Syria and Lebanon.
The pair broke ground for their Central Texas Olive Ranch in January 2009. At some point you need to contribute to society
He built a building and bought an oil press from Italy knowing that not everyone who wants to grow olives will be able to buy a press.
or 15 acres we'll buy their fruit from them so that would be a productive thing for them
The more olives we get to harvest and press the better we are in the industry.
Olives are a Mediterranean crop. The severe occasional freezes we get in Texas can be a problem Nesbitt said.
The most recent and longstanding effort to produce olives began in the late 1990s Nesbitt said
The 2012 census recorded 760 acres of olives in the state. We think there is probably double that he said.
but they only set fruit after experiencing night temperatures of 35-50 degrees followed by less than 80 degree daytime temperatures.
Kamas said those interested in growing olives must keep weeds out of the orchard. What do weeds compete for?
Ancient peach stones offer clues to fruits originsas peach trees in the Niagara Region of Ontario give up the last of their fruit for the season their ancestors halfway around the globe are clamouring for attention.
and two Chinese colleagues propose that the domestic peaches enjoyed worldwide today can trace their ancestry back at least 7500 years ago to the lower Yangtze river Valley in Southern China not far from Shanghai.
Previously no one knew where peaches were domesticated said Crawford. None of the botanical literature suggested the Yangtze Valley
Radiocarbon dating of ancient peach stones (pits) discovered in the Lower Yangtze river Valley indicates that the peach seems to have been diverged from its wild ancestors as early as 7500 years ago.
Unlike most trees the peach matures very quickly producing fruit within two to three years
Peach stones are represented well at archeological sites in the Yangtze valley so they compared the size
By comparing the size of the stones from each site they were able to discern peaches growing significantly larger over time in the Yangtze valley demonstrating that domestication was taking place The first peach stones in China most similar to modern
if a seed will produce the same fruit as the tree that produced it. It's a gamble.
If they simply started grafting it would guarantee the orchard would have the peaches they wanted.
Crawford and his colleagues think that it took about 3000 years before the domesticated peach resembled the fruit we know today.
The peaches we eat today didn't grow in the wild Crawford added. Generation after generation kept selecting the peaches they enjoyed.
The product went from thinly fleshed very small fruit to what we have today. Peaches produce fruit over an extended season today
but in the wild they have a short season. People must have selected not only for taste
and fruit size but for production time too. Discovering more about the origins of domesticated peaches tells us more about our human ancestors too Crawford noted.
Crops such as domesticated peaches indicate that early people weren't passive in dealing with the environment.
Not only did they understand grain production but the woodlands and certain trees were being manipulated early on.
There is a general sense that people in the past were not as smart as we are said Crawford.
and the domestication of peaches helps us understand this. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by University of Toronto.
At about 0. 5 mg of sodium per calorie natural foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables generally contain much less so opt for them
In its 2010 dietary guidelines USDA recommends that Americans eat more fruits vegetables whole grains fat-free and low-fat dairy products and seafood.
--and to a lesser extent seafood fruits and vegetables--would have the opposite effect increasing diet-related emissions according to the U-M researchers.
Our findings give women another reason to eat their fruits and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables are good sources of potassium
and potassium not only lowers postmenopausal women's risk of stroke but also death. Researchers studied 90137 postmenopausal women ages 50 to 79 for an average 11 years.
Some foods high in potassium include white and sweet potatoes bananas and white beans. While increasing potassium intake is probably a good idea for most older women there are some people who have too much potassium in their blood
#Improving how companies use technology to ship fresh producea University of Florida-led research team's development of a tracking system could change the way companies ship fresh fruits
Jeffrey Brecht director of the UF Institute of food and agricultural sciences'Center for Food Distribution and Retailing studied strawberries beginning with their harvesting from fields in Florida and California to their delivery to stores in Illinois Washington Alabama
The researchers placed two radio frequency identification (RFID) devices into each pallet of strawberries as they were picked.
The devices allowed them to track the strawberries'temperature from the field through precooling and into trucks
or FEFO was a better way to distribute delicate fruits and vegetables Companies normally measure only the temperature of an entire truck.
what time of the day berries were picked and even their placement on the truck. Strawberries picked in the cool of the morning and placed on a refrigerated truck would stay fresher longer than strawberries picked in the afternoon heat.
Brecht said under perfect conditions strawberries can maintain a good quality based on researchers'scale of
what's acceptable for up to 14 days. Less than perfect conditions mainly due to a lack of temperature control drastically reduce the berries'postharvest life.
It can take as long as four days to go from field to store but that would be for a cross-country trip such as from California to South carolina.
Next the scientists looked at how coffee's genetic make-up is distinct from other species. Compared to several other plant species including the grape
Instead it maintained a structure similar to the grape's. As such evolutionary diversification of the coffee genome was driven likely more by duplications in particular gene families as opposed to en masse when all genes in the genome duplicate.
and in 2010 it caused $37 million worth of damage to apples alone. Now a new open-access article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management describes available management options for this invasive pest species as well as information about its origin
You may have to watch what your fruits and veggies eatpeople with food allergies always have to watch what they eat.
Now they may have to watch what their fruits and vegetables eat as it seems it's possible to have an allergic reaction to antibiotic residues in food.
After weeks of testing on both the young girl and a sample of the pie the article authors decided that what had caused the reaction was contaminated a streptomycin blueberry.
Streptomycin in addition to being used a drug to fight disease is used also as a pesticide in fruit to combat the growth of bacteria fungi and algae.
As far as we know this is the first report that links an allergic reaction to fruits treated with antibiotic pesticides said allergist Anne Des Roches MDFRCP lead study author.
This tax revenue would be used to offset the cost of subsidizing healthier foods such as fruits nuts vegetables fish beans
With a modest 10-30%tax on most packaged foods healthy foods such as fruits nuts and vegetables could be subsidized to cost pennies to consumers Mozaffarian said.
(which the fungus also needs) from pasture grape pomace coffee or pineapple crown. This preparation where the mushrooms are to be developed is called substrate.
For fruits vegetables whole grains nuts and legumes long-chain omega-3 fats and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAS) a higher score corresponded to higher intake.
Score increases of 0. 7 points for whole fruit 0. 5 points for whole grains 0. 5 points for PUFAS and 0. 4 points for nuts
#Fruit consumption cuts cardiovascular disease risk by up to 40 percentdaily fruit consumption cuts the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) by up to 40%according to research presented at ESC Congress by Dr Huaidong
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.
and risk factors we have conducted the first large prospective study on the association of fruit with subtypes of stroke in Chinese adults from both rural and urban areas.
Habitual consumption of fruit was recorded at baseline according to five categories never monthly 1-3 days per week 4-6 days per week daily.
Some 18%of participants consumed fruit daily and 6. 3%never consumed fruit. The average amount of fruit eaten by the daily consumers was 1. 5 portions (150g)( 2). The researchers found that compared to people who never ate fruit those who ate fruit daily cut their CVD risks by 25-40%(around 15
%for IHD around 25%for ischaemic stroke and 40%for haemorrhagic stroke. There was a dose response relationship between the frequency of fruit consumption
and the risk of CVD (see figure). Dr Du said: Our data clearly shows that eating fresh fruit can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease including ischaemic heart disease and stroke (particularly haemorrhagic stroke.
And not only that the more fruit you eat the more your CVD risk goes down.
It does suggest that eating more fruit is compared beneficial to less or no fruit. The researchers also found that people who consumed fruit more often had significantly lower blood pressure (BP.
Eating fruit daily was associated with 3. 4/4. 1 mmhg lower systolic/diastolic BP compared to those who never ate fruit.
Dr Du said: Our data shows that eating fresh fruit was associated with lower baseline BP.
We also found that the beneficial effect of fruit on the risk of CVD was independent of its impact on baseline BP.
In a separate analysis the researchers examined the association of fruit consumption with total mortality
and CV mortality in more than 61000 patients from the China Kadoorie Biobank who had CVD or hypertension at baseline.
They found that compared to those who never ate fruit daily consumers of fruit cut their overall risk of death by 32%.
%They also reduced their risks of dying from IHD by 27%and from stroke by around 40%.
Patients with CVD and hypertension should also be encouraged to consume more fresh fruit. Many western populations have experienced a rapid decrease in CVD mortality during the past several decades especially stroke mortality
Improved access to fresh fruit may well have contributed importantly to that decline. The researchers concluded: Our results show the benefit of eating fruit in the healthy general population and in patients with CVD and hypertension.
Fruit consumption is an effective way to cut CVD risk and should not only be regarded as'might be useful'.
'Policies are needed to promote the availability affordability and acceptability of fresh fruit through educational and regulatory measures.
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The study has motivated farmers to exchange information and monitor whiteflies outside greenhouses in potato and strawberry fields.
and leafy vegetables and fruits have a lower risk of developing diabetes even when they don't lose weight Dr. Hamdy says.
Foods such as oat cereal yogurt and dairy products green leafy vegetables grapes apples blueberries and walnuts were associated with reduced diabetes risk.
and the Citrus tristeza virus (given its name meaning'sadness'in Portuguese and Spanish by farmers in the 1930s)
which had reached 105 of 145 countries growing citrus by 2000. Fungi lead the worldwide invasion of crops
#How to prevent organic food frauda growing number of consumers are willing to pay a premium for fruits vegetables
However figuring out whether a fruit or vegetable was grown under organic conditions is fraught with complications.
Men should still eat a wide variety of fruits and vegetables maintain a healthy weight and stay active.
Only the recommendation on plant foods--high intake of fruits vegetables and dietary fibre--was found to be associated with a reduced risk of prostate cancer.
#Eat your fruits, vegetables for skin with sun-kissed glowforget sun beds sunbathing and fake tanning lotions.
through tanning (melanisation) or the assimilation of fruit and vegetables (carotenoid ingestion. While it is known that red and yellow pigments found in bright fruit
and vegetables increase skin yellowness recent studies have shown that carotenoid coloration is a more important factor in healthy appearance than melanin coloration clarify the academics.
Turning orange may not be that bad after all. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Taylor & francis. Note:
analysis showsa new analysis suggests the planet can produce much more land-plant biomass--the total material in leaves stems roots fruits grains
One third of our food is dependent on the pollination of fruits nuts and vegetables by bees and other insects.
#Creating pomegranate drug to stem Alzheimers, Parkinsonsdr Olumayokun Olajide's research will look to produce compound derivatives of punicalagin for a drug that would treat neuro-inflammation
and some of its symptoms curbed by a natural compound that is found in pomegranate. Also the painful inflammation that accompanies illnesses such as rheumatoid arthritis
The key breakthrough by Dr Olajide and his co-researchers is to demonstrate that punicalagin which is a polyphenol--a form of chemical compound--found in pomegranate fruit can inhibit inflammation in specialised brain cells known as micrologia.
but the punicalagin in pomegranate could prevent it or slow down its development. Dr Olajide worked with co-researchers--including four Phd students--in the University of Huddersfield's Department of Pharmacy and with scientists at the University of Freiburg in Germany.
He is still working on the amounts of pomegranate that are required in order to be effective. But we do know that regular intake
and regular consumption of pomegranate has a lot of health benefits--including prevention of neuro-inflammation related to dementia he says recommending juice products that are 100 per cent pomegranate meaning that approximately 3. 4 per cent will be punicalagin the compound
Dr Olajide states that most of the antioxidant compounds are found in the outer skin of the pomegranate not in the soft part of the fruit.
although this has yet to be evaluated scientifically pomegranate will be useful in any condition for which inflammation--not just neuro-inflammation--is a factor such as rheumatoid arthritis Parkinson's and cancer.
Faced with this all-or-nothing scenario Maude Baldwin co-first author of the paper had one reaction.
So began Baldwin's quest to understand how hummingbirds detected sugar and became highly specialized nectar feeders.
and hummingbirds--a three-year process--Baldwin needed to test what the proteins expressed by these genes were responding to.
This is the first time that this umami receptor has ever been shown to respond to carbohydrates Baldwin said.
but there are likely more contributing to this sweet switch Baldwin and Liberles suspect. If you look at the structure of the receptor it involved really dramatic changes over its entire surface to accomplish this complex feat Liberles said.
In the SYSDIET study the intervention group was advised to follow a healthy Nordic diet rich in berries vegetables fatty fish canola oil and whole grains.
and plastic bags could one day be made out of cocoa rice and vegetable waste rather than petroleum scientists are now reporting.
and husks from rice and cocoa pods. Then they poured the resulting solutions into lab dishes.
Fruit, vegetable intake still too low; Human nutritionist says to focus on lunchchanges to a supplemental nutrition program are improving the number of fruits eaten daily by children
but kids and adults still aren't reaching the recommended daily intake amounts. A Kansas State university human nutritionist says to reach that amount you need to focus on lunch.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that children between the ages of 2 and 18 are eating more whole fruits
Sandy Procter assistant professor of human nutrition and coordinator of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program in the university's College of Human ecology says the switch from fruit juice to whole fruit is a big improvement.
Procter attributes the fruit intake improvements to changes made to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children or WIC.
In 2007 on a trial basis the WIC program began allowing the purchase of fresh fruits
Despite the improvement most children and adults are not getting enough fruits and vegetables. According to the 2013 State Indicator Report on Fruits and Vegetables from the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion the average American eats one serving of fruit and 1. 3
servings of vegetables per day. In Kansas the percent of people who reported consuming fruit less than one time a day is 41 percent.
For vegetables 22 percent reported eating less than one serving of vegetables a day with French fries included as a vegetable option.
Procter emphasizes lunch as the most important meal for fruit and vegetable consumption and says that
if these nutritious components aren't included in lunch it is very hard to reach the recommended five servings a day of fruits and vegetables.
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