#10 Everyday Fruits and Vegetables that are Poisonous Even apples have a poisonous element. Most of us think that eating fruits
and vegetables can be nothing but healthy but there are hidden dangers in many common foods. Poisons that make you sick,
A few more and there is no wishing about it. 6. Chocolate (cocoa beans) Chocolate is included here though while it is not poisonous to humans,
it is offered still something on occasion. 4. Cherries, Apricots, Peaches and Plums Cherries, apricots, peaches and plums contain cyanogenic glycosides that creates cyanide in the pits.
Swallowing a pit or two is not going to have much effect#our bodies will deal with a certain amount of cyanide
and dont de-pit the fruit. Some people die every year (not just children) from eating too many pits,
or even death. 1. Apple An apple a day will keep the doctor away. Unless you eat the seeds.
Like cherries and other fruits, they contain cyanogenic glycosides causing cyanide. Seeds from one apple will not likely cause an effect
but people have eaten enough to die from it. These ten fruits and vegetables are consumed healthy
if carefully but remember that illness and death can be lurking where you least expect it!
Ultimately, Pepsi plans to also use orange peels, oat hulls, potato scraps and other leftovers from its food business.
and pineapple#2 Cups Sugar 1 Tsp Baking soda 1/4 Cup Citric acid Crystals (Can be tricky to find.
and cherry, you can use a small amount (about 1/4 teaspoon). Subtler flavors such as lemon, strawberry, orange,
and peach require more (1/2 to 1 teaspoon.)A few Drops of Food coloring of your choice Pop Rocks!(
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#Top 10 Photos of the Week As with most politicians, breathing fire creates a good sideshow Before you criticize someone,
If you can unravel a lime with your tongue, the rest of the world is a piece of cake...
The key to life can be found in bananas. Now, if we can only find the key to unlock the bananas...
In a brilliant stroke of marketing genius, Tonka is making a play to replace the stork in baby lore...
Apples. Its so rare when they come with a girl attached...Gangsta chicks...#and then this happened...
Being an apple shape is no less healthy than being a pear, according to a new study that turns the long-held belief on its head.
Doctors have thought long that people with an apple figure#a tendency to store fat around the belly rather than the hips#were at a higher risk of heart disease and stroke.
It found that having a higher waist-to-hip ratio#in other words being an apple#was three times more powerful an indicator of heart attack risk
And he still thought there was some truth in the apple maxim. He said: Abdominal fat seems to be associated with other risk factors for heart disease like raised blood pressure, cholesterol, a type of lipid and diabetes#.
otherwise#There are also diced apples, dried cranberries and raisins, the least processed of the ingredients (even the oatmeal contains seven ingredients,
#A more accurate description than 100%natural whole-grain oats,#plump raisins,#sweet cranberries#and crisp fresh apples#would be sweetened oats,
sugar dried fruit, cream and 11 weird ingredients you would never keep in your kitchen.####Incredibly, the Mcdonalds product contains more sugar than a Snickers bar and only 10 fewer calories than a Mcdonalds cheeseburger or Egg Mcmuffin.
Fruits and vegetables tend to be pretty neat and wont get anything on your hands.
Id be wary of the juicier fruits like apples, which could drip juice on your keyboard
Dried fruits and nuts are really good ideas too. th salad dressing. The great thing about salad is that,
They also drink a fruit-flavored punch with the fructose equivalent of about a can of soda a day.
a naturally occurring stimulant found in the cocoa bean. It affects the central nervous system as well as heart muscle. Its the theobromine that is poisonous to dogs in sufficient quantities.
Cocoa powder: 800 mg/oz Bakers chocolate (unsweetened: 450 mg/oz Dark chocolate: 150 mg/oz Milk chocolate:
1/9 of an ounce per pound of body weight (around 1. 8 ounces of bakers chocolate for a 16 pound dog) Cocoa powder:
1/16 of an ounce per pound of dog (around 1 ounce of cocoa powder to kill a 16 pound dog) On the other extreme end,
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#Chocolate Healthier Than Fruit: Study Researchers found that chocolates contain more healthy plant compounds and antioxidants, gram-for-gram, than fruit juice.
for scientists have claimed that its actually healthier than many fruit. Not only that, but chocolate is being heralded as the latest super food#by the scientists who carried out a study.
The scientists have based their findings on a comparison of cocoa powder the raw ingredient of chocolate, with powders made from fruits like acai berries, blueberries, cranberries and pomegranates, the Daily Express reported.
Research into dark chocolate, containing around 60%cocoa, and cocoa drinks found that they too had more antioxidant activity and more flavanols#health-giving plant chemicals#than fruit.
The discovery means cocoa beans meet the nutritional criteria needed for fruits to be classed as super fruits#according to the scientists at the Hershey Center for Health & Nutrition in the US.
The compounds in dark chocolate are just as good as the botanical compounds in fruit. Cacao seeds should be considered a super fruit
and products derived from cacao seed extracts such as natural cocoa powder and dark chocolate, as super foods,#said lead scientist Debra Miller.
However, the findings do not alter the fact that their favourite is high in fat and sugar,
meaning dieticians say it should be balanced with less yummy foods such as brown rice and pulses, say the scientists.
Dark chocolate needs to be considered as more of a tropical fruit like avocado which has a high fat content so you need to moderate the calories side of things.
But people could create drinks and recipes containing cocoa to get the benefits without the calories,
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Nothing says gross supermarket#quite like kiwi fruit with hairy backs...Wow! Cool beer and cool chicks!
Google has launched an operating system it hopes will break into the tablet computer market dominated by Apple. The company showcased the first version of its Android software specifically designed to run on tablets yesterday.
when Apple introduced the ipad last year. Google said Android developers will now be able to sell consumers goods from directly within their apps,
a key capability Apple introduced more than one year ago. And it has started a web version of its applications store for Android devices
Apple, which some analysts expect will unveil a new version of its ipad later this year,
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But wait, it doesnt stop there. 6%of British adults thought strawberries grew on trees,
More traditional is a basket containing papaya at left. Above it is a pile of bitter manioc, peeled prior to soaking.
with banana leaves used as covers. From the picture, the people appear in good health, said Watson.
along with details of banana plants and annatto shrubs in the garden. Papaya and manioc would also be grown there,
and perhaps cotton used to make bracelets, anklets and hammocks, said Watson. Three Men Look Upward Two men painted red and another painted black look up from their village clearing.
who in some stores can wave a smartphone above an apple or orange and learn instantly where it was grown,
who grew it and whether it has been recalled. They can even contact the farmer, if they feel moved.
mostly relying on bar codes that can be affixed after harvesting to a piece of fruit or a crate.
has developed a two-dimensional bar code sticker that can be placed on individual fruits and vegetables or packaging.
which is applying it to all of its private label fruits and vegetables in its more than 2, 400 stores.
and tell the farmer These are the greatest strawberries Ive ever had or whatever...Its about using technology to put people back in touch with the people who grow their food.#
#Thats new for Phillip Bauman, a 42-year-old watermelon farmer in Washington state. Bauman bought the Harvestmark system for his Pasco farm about three years ago
and preprinted bar code stickers for his melons. And during harvesting, he takes the laptop to a bank
Bauman traced the melon and discovered it had been picked in August but purchased by the customer in October.
It all comes back to a whole foods diet with foods loaded with calcium like figs (506 mg per serving), sesame seeds (88 mg), flaxseeds (255 mg), almonds (266 mg),
are areas where residents have little access to fresh fruits and vegetables because there are no grocery stores or farmers markets nearby.
The higher-income families ate more meat, more fresh fruit and more vegetables than others.
a childless household consumed about 4. 4 pounds more fruit and vegetables per person over the two-week period.
#The Color Orange Was named After The Fruit Life would be quite different if these would have been known as geoluhreads.
The color orange was named after the fruit, not the other way around. Before then, The english speaking world referred to the orange color as geoluhread,
The word orange itself was introduced to English through the Spanish word naranja, which came from the Sanskrit word nä raga,
In the early 16th century, the word orange gradually started being used to not only refer to the fruit
the market allows home cooks to sell their creations#from fresh baked fruit tarts to savory meat dishes#an idea that runs afoul of health codes.
Bumblebees pollinate tomatoes, blueberries and cranberries, she noted. The 50 species (of bumblebees) in the United states are associated traditionally with prairies and with high alpine vegetations#
pureed fruit in the form of something called Tropolis. From the Wall street journal: Tropolis, an 80-calorie fruit puree,
which comes in brightly colored pouches, will be marketed to moms and kids. Pepsicos Tropicana unit is rolling out apple, grape and cherry Tropolis pouches in test markets in the Midwest next month, at $2. 49 to $3. 49 for a four-pack.
Side question: Is it just us, or does Tropolis sound like a fictional hair-restoring drug,
and mashed-up bananas, #but the rest of it is sugar, #she tells the Journal.
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#Amazon remains on top for customer satisfaction while Apple drops out of the top 5 Amazon remains on top for customer satisfaction.
Amazon remains on top with customer satisfaction as Apple s online store slid out of the top five,
In fact, Apple had its lowest score in four years, achieving only an 80 percent rating.
#In Apple s defense, it might argue that those superior revenues are accompanied not by significant profits.
And that it s difficult to maintain high standards when the company increased net sales 144 percent from $108 billion in 2011 to $156 billion in 2012#a staggering number that is quadruple Apple s
What I can say from personal experience is that Apple seems to be working hard at improving.
Apple added an ipod Shuffle to the order, gratis. The Air did eventually arrive on time.
Over the last two years Shawn and Stephanie Grimes have spent much of their time in pursuing their dream of doing research and development for Apple, the world s most successful corporation.
But they did not actually have jobs at Apple. It was freelance work that came with nothing in the way of a regular income, health insurance or retirement plan.
Four of the most valuable American companies#Apple, Google, Microsoft and I b m.#are rooted in technology.
And it was Apple, more than any other company, that set off the app revolution with the iphone and ipad.
Since Apple unleashed the world s freelance coders to build applications four years ago, it has paid them more than $6. 5 billion in royalties.
And the tech industry has begun making claims about how apps are contributing to the broader economy A study commissioned by the tech advocacy group Technet found that the app economy##including Apple, Facebook,
Apple said this month that its app business had generated 291,250 jobs for the American economy,
During that time, the number of United states developers paying the $99 annual fee to register with Apple rose 10 percent to 275
Apple has become increasingly assertive in promoting the economic benefits of apps as its own wealth
Apple has become a jobs platform.##Michael Mandel, the economist who conducted the Technet study,
said it was problematic to slice the jobs data as Apple had done. The guy who writes an Apple app one day will write an Android app the next day,
#he said. You can t add up all the numbers from every study to get the total number of jobs.#
A quarter of the respondents said they had made less than $200 in lifetime revenue from Apple.
when someone buys or upgrades their app from Apple s online store, the only place consumers can buy an iphone or ipad app.
Apple keeps 30 percent of each app sale. While its job creation report trumpets the $6. 5 billion the company has paid out in royalties,
who runs the Apple app review site 148apps. com and closely tracks developments in the field.
Shawn Grimes started experimenting with apps almost as soon as Apple opened its doors for the iphone.
Those amateur apps pulled in more than $5, 000 from Apple. Late last year, Mr. Grimes was laid off as a computer security specialist by Legg Mason, the Baltimore financial firm.
But with hundreds of new apps introduced every day in Apple s store, the field is overcrowded#something the Grimeses learned quickly and painfully.
especially Apple technology. At one point they owned a 24-inch imac, a Mac Mini, a 24-inch cinema display screen, two 13-inch Macbook Airs, a 15-inch Macbook
Pro, two ipad 2s, two Apple TVS, two iphone 4s and an iphone 3gs. We justify buying new models by saying we need them to test out the apps,
Apple delivered little #but it also made no promises. People used to expect companies to take care of them,
Apple makes no money here, but it gets a long-term benefit: start-ups that succeed will embed the ipad and the iphone more thoroughly into society.
The company is, in a sense, another arm of Apple s research and development program. The applications are what sells the hardware,
Apple has limited appeal.##On one level, it was a strange move for Apple to open its devices to people like Mr. Grimes, Mr. Nicholas and the Millers.
Imagine a violinist s horror at letting a toddler play with his Stradivarius and you would have some idea of Apple s reluctance to let anyone outside of its walls fool with any of its technology.
This is a company that sealed batteries into its devices so people could not replace them.
Apple s brilliant but mercurial chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, agreed to unlock the gates of the fledgling iphone only after much internal argument
and he made sure that Apple would retain strict oversight of every app. In retrospect, it might have been the smartest decision ever made by a company that prides itself on creating the future.
#said Mr. Scott of148apps. com. Apple s financial documents show just how crucial app inventors are.
Developers have expressed flickers of grumpiness at Apple s 30 percent cut of each app sale.
#Apple declined to comment about the union, which disappeared from the Web as mysteriously as it had arrived.
Mr. Nicholas has the same philosophy about Apple now as he did wrote when he ishoot.
On an outdoor patio at his weekend house, he set a table with Kalamata olives, hummus, heavy Ikarian bread and wine.
and adding a little lemon. People here think they re drinking a comforting beverage, but they all double as medicine,
instead planting a huge garden that provided most of their fruits and vegetables. She lost weight without trying to.
and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food.#
require schools to serve more variety and larger portions of fruits and vegetables. And for the first time, there are limits on the calories that can be served at meals based on students ages.
#She says her district lets students take as many fruits and vegetables at lunch as they want from self-serve bars.
We love the extra fruits and vegetables. We like the freshness factor of those.##The quality of school meals has been debated hotly for years
Are organic fruits and vegetables more nutritious than conventional fruits and vegetables? Maybe#or maybe not.
They concluded that fruits and vegetables labeled organic were, on average, no more nutritious than their conventional counterparts,
Conventional fruits and vegetables did have more pesticide residue, but the levels were almost always under the allowed safety limits,
which publishes lists highlighting the fruits and vegetables with the lowest and highest amounts of pesticide residues.
examining a wide variety of fruits, vegetables and meats. For four years, they performed statistical analyses looking for signs of health benefits from adding organic foods to the diet.
Thus, a lush peach grown with the use of pesticides could easily contain more vitamins than an unripe organic one.
For example, a 2010 study by scientists at Washington state University did find that organic strawberries contained more Vitamin c than conventional ones.
Dr. Crystal Smith-Spangler, another member of the Stanford team, said that the strawberry study was erroneously left out
Factories like the one here in The netherlands are a striking counterpoint to those used by Apple and other consumer electronics giants,
Many industry executives and technology experts say Philips s approach is gaining ground on Apple s. Even as Foxconn,
Apple s iphone manufacturer, continues to build new plants and hire thousands of additional workers to make smartphones,
instead come in a uniformly drab shade of olive and feature dire health warnings and graphic photographs of smoking s health effects.
and health benefits of raw cacao and coconut oil and wanted to have them in my diet,
the dilemma of naming her product and how Apple actually created her product market for her The simple design is part of its genius
FROM ZERO TO APPLE IN FOUR WEEKS! Granny designs solution for ipad Cate Vincent, a grandmother, was bed reading in on her ipad last month,
Four weeks later, she was sitting in a glass conference room at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, California.
me to Apple when they heard what I did next; grab pinking shears and a plastic file folder, make a few cuts,
#At Apple headquarters they encouraged her to get her handle to market, and pledged their help in many ways.
Happily, Apple did that for us, by selling their fabulous ipad to over 60 million customers.
and focuses on fish, fruit, vegetables, nuts and whole grains, also saw improved cholesterol levels and other important markers that lower the risks of developing heart disease and diabetes.
almonds, brown rice, beans and healthy fats like olive oil, among other foods. The study was led by researchers at the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children s Hospital and funded by the National institutes of health and the New Balance Foundation,
#Apple s retail employees are long on loyalty but short on pay Apple employees During Jordan Golson s best three-month stretch last year, he sold bout
$750, 000 worth of computers and gadgets at the Apple Store in Salem, N h. It was a performance that might have called for a bottle of Champagne
I m an Apple fan, the store is doing really well. But when you look at the amount of money the company is making
Within this world, the Apple Store is undisputed the king, a retail phenomenon renowned for impeccable design, deft service and spectacular revenues.
But most of Apple s employees enjoyed little of that wealth. While consumers tend to think of Apple s headquarters in Cupertino, Calif,
. as the company s heart and soul, a majority of its workers in the United states are not engineers or executives with hefty salaries and bonuses but rather hourly wage earners selling iphones and Macbooks.
About 30,000 of the 43,000 Apple employees in this country work in Apple Stores, as members of the service economy,
And though Apple is unparalleled as a retailer, when it comes to its lowliest workers, the company is a reflection of the technology industry as a whole.
#By the standards of retailing, Apple offers above average pay#well above the minimum wage of $7. 25 and better than the Gap,
as well as Apple products, at a discount. But Apple is not selling polo shirts or yoga pants.
Divide revenue by total number of employees and you find that last year, each Apple store employee#that includes non-sales staff like technicians
and people stocking shelves#brought in $473, 000. These are sales rates for a consulting company,
Even Apple, it seems, has decided recently it needs to pay its workers more. Last week, four months after The New york times first began inquiring about the wages of its store employees
An Apple spokesman confirmed the raises but would not discuss their size, timing or impetus,
Apple wants to show that it cares about its workers, and show that it knows how much value you add to the company,
Though a significant increase, Mr. Moll s new salary of about $36, 000 puts him on the low side of the wage scale at the other large sellers of Apple products, AT&T and Verizon
In other areas, Apple has been a leader. Stores in a variety of fields have adopted the company s retail techniques
But Apple s success, it turns out, rests on a set of intangibles; foremost among them is a built-in fan base that ensures a steady supply of eager applicants and an employee culture that tries to turn every job into an exalted mission.
This is why Apple can do something unique in the annals of retailing: pay a modest hourly wage,
When you re working for Apple you feel like you re working for this greater good,
as anyone who has ever set foot in an Apple Store knows. And the relative youth of this work force helps explain why people are likely to judge the company by a different set of standards
but we don t find it offensive that Apple pays a young man $12 an hour,##Mr. Osterman said.
#Twenty-two-year-olds also tend to be more tolerant of the Apple Store s noise and bustle,
#says Shane Garcia, a former Apple Store manager in Chicago. Six years.##But the average tenure is two
or geniuses#in Apple s parlance, who work at what is called the Genius Bar. Apple declined requests for interviews for this article.
Instead, the company issued a statement: Thousands of incredibly talented professionals work behind the Genius Bar anddeliver the best customer service in the world.
and shows how passionate they are about their customers and their careers at Apple.##That 90 percent figure sounds accurate to Mr. Garcia,
The problem for Apple Store employees, they said wasn t just the pace. It was the lack of upward mobility.
There are only a handful of different jobs at Apple Stores and the most prestigious are invariably sought after by dozens of candidates.
Apple prohibits its staff from talking to the media, but several former employees who spoke for this article said they had fond memories of their jobs,
And Apple#can be a strong credential to have on a rã sumã these people said.
And even those who used Apple as a launching pad described a gradual evolution, from team player to skeptic,
Kelly Jackson, who was a technician at an Apple Store in Chicago, was thrilled when she was hired two years ago.
then Apple s chief, pitched the Apple Store concept to his board in 2000. Ultimately, approval was given for just four stores.
and if it involved Apple and I could be involved, #she said, it made me feel important.#
#Ms. Bruno was one of the first hard-core Apple fans hired for the nascent chain.
and boast that it was harder to land a job at an Apple Store than to get into Stanford,
My dream my whole life was to work for Apple and suddenly, you can, #he said.
You ve always been an evangelist for Apple and now you can get paid for it.#
But if the newly hired arrive as devotees, Apple s training course, which can range from a few days to a few weeks,
Apple managers and trainers give them a standing ovation. The clapping often bewilders the trainees, at least at first,
#says Michael Dow, who trained Apple employees for years in Providence, R i. There is more roleplaying at Core training,
If there is a secret to Apple s sauce, this is it: the company ennobles employees. It understands that a lot of people will forgo money
because aspiring sales employees would clearly be better off working at one of the country s other big sellers of Apple products, AT&T and Verizon Wireless,
At Apple, the decision not to offer commissions was made, Ms. Bruno said, before a store had opened.
Tellingly, Apple doesn t use the word sales#to describe members of its sales team.
Apple does more than just filter out people interested primarily in money. It also reduces the number of middle-aged and older people on the payroll,
Generally, an Apple employee is someone who can afford to live cheaply, is bothered not by the nonstop commotion of an Apple Store
and is comfortable with technology. People who fit that bill tend to be in their early or mid-20s,
There is no shortage of college graduates eager to dedicate themselves to Apple s vision, on Apple s terms.
That includes people like Asher Perlman, another former technician from a store in Chicago, who joined Apple three years ago,
I m happy with my time at Apple and where it landed me,#says Mr. Perlman, who now works in information technology.
brought unprecedented crowds to Apple Stores. The company tried to hang on to its culture, but naturally it changed,
Arthur Zarate, who joined Apple in 2004 and later worked as a technician at the store in Mission Viejo,
and 10 minutes for Apple s assortment of devices. If a solution took longer to find,
a lawyer, filed a class action alleging that Apple was breaking California labor laws. State law mandates two 10-minute breaks a day,
Jordan Golson, who now blogs at Macrumors, a site that keeps tabs on all things Apple,
the former Chicago manager, talked about Apple with a bittersweet mix of admiration and sadness.
many managers keep close tabs on sales of warranties, known as Apple Care, and One to One,
and 65 percent should include Apple Care for a sales employee who wanted to climb Apple s in store ladder#to technician or manager,
and Apple is often diligent about elevating from within its ranks of high achievers. Though not always.
you can hear occasional laments about the gradual Gapification of Apple.##In recent years, the level of unhappiness at some stores was captured by an employee satisfaction survey known in the company as Netpromoter for Our People.
It s a variation of a questionnaire that Apple has given long to customers, and the key question asks employees to rate, on a scale of one to 10,
How likely are you to recommend working at your Apple Retail store to an interested friend or family member?#
#Mr. Garcia would eventually quit Apple, and walk away from a job that paid a little more than $40, 000 a year,
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