what happens during fruit ripening. You may have heard that if you put a ripe and an unripe fruit together in the same bag,
the unripe one will ripen faster. This happens because the ripe one releases a ripening pheromone into the air,
and the green fruit smells it and then starts ripening itself. This happens not only in our kitchens
When one fruit starts to ripen, it releases this hormone which is called ethylene, which is sensed by neighboring fruits,
until entire trees and groves ripen more or less in synchrony. Another example of a plant using smell is how a parasitic plant called dodder finds its food.
Improvements like these have allowed roasters to make coffee that tastes like Seville oranges or toasted almonds or berries,
and turn a color#orange, say, for E coli. Then you could knock it out with a stronger disinfectant. 27.
Yogurt will be encased in a strawberry pouch, for instance. You could wash and eat the packaging, like the skin of an apple,
or you could toss it, like the peel of an orange, since it s biodegradable.
The newly wrapped ice cream and yogurt will be available later this month at the lab store in Paris,
#Apple turns over its entire inventory once every 5 days Apple s supply chain is ranked best in the world.
Apple s supply chain is ranked best in the world by the technology research firm Gartner.
According to a new report by Gartner. part of the reason is Apple turns over its inventory once every five days.
Apple ells hundreds of millions of hardware gadgets all over the world and yet it doesn need t actually to stockpile its goods. The only company on Gartner s list of 25 companies that turns over its product faster is Mcdonald s
Dell and Samsung rank two and three in Apple s category, turning over their inventory roughly once every 10 and 21 days respectively.
Apple s number is 74, according to Gartner (or 76, according to Forbes). From there, it s a common practice to divide by 365 to estimate the number of days of sales sitting in inventory.#
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. including fruits, vegetables, nuts, and livestock feed such as alfalfa and clover. Massive loss of honeybees could result in billions of dollars in agricultural losses, experts estimate.
Most fruits and vegetables come prepackaged in delicious edible containers. The biomedical engineer who came up with huffable food,
including an orange-flavored membrane full of orange juice, a tomato-flavored bottle with gazpacho inside, and grape packages that can hold wine.
Wikicells are capable of containing just about anything, from solids to liquids to foams. At their present stage of development, they re more on the biodegradable#end of things than the tasty and enjoyable#side,
#Scientific proof that popcorn is healthier than fruit and vegetables Popcorn. It s whats for dinner.
popcorn packs a better nutritional punch than fruit or vegetables. Kind of. The study, conducted at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, shows that popcorn has more antioxidants in it than fruit or vegetables.
Not just that, but those pesky little husks#he ones that get stuck right between your teeth#ontain incredibly high concentrations of both antioxidants and fiber.
#The study found that a serving of popcorn provides up to 300 mg of polyphenols#he antioxidants in question#hile a typical daily intake of fruit
Also, I wouldn t give up fruit and vegetables entirely just yet. Popcorn may be good, but it doesn t count as a balanced diet alone.
The number of available apps through Apple and Android now exceeds 1. 2 million with over 34 billion downloads so far between the two of them.
We forget we have all these fresh fruits and vegetables, and at the end of the week we have to throw them away,
In richer nations, edible fruit and vegetables end up in landfills because they are not pretty enough to meet a retailer s standards,
She buys frozen blueberries and raspberries instead of fresh ones that may spoil; purchases meat in bulk;
She also has introduced her kids to frozen banana treats, which means she s able to keep the fruit longer.
Milk is one thing we don t waste, though,#she said. My kids go right through it.#
And eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. They re nutritionally dense and an excellent use of your food budget.
when a fruit ripens or rots. have taken you ever a big gulp of milk only to find out then that the milk is sour.?
stamped onto fruit or floating in milk, they can warn you when your fruit is ripe,
or when your milk has gone sour. We see a huge market for food,#Hu Tiger#Tao,
and can curve according to the shape of the fruit it s being stuck on. The silk film doubles up as the sensor s glue,
tested the sensors on bananas, eggs, apples, cheese, and milk, and published the results in Advanced Materials.
When a fruit ripens or rots, chemical changes churn around inside it. Those changes and differences in the stiffness of the fruit translate to
what s called their dielectric properties. Tao s gold sensors pick up on that change, and emit a different electromagnetic signal
when monitored with a reader. We can tailor our sensor to be extremely sensitive to the change of the dielectric property,
Sensors for bananas, for example, are slightly bigger than sensors for milk. The working principles behind the sensors are based on existing RFID techthe difference here is that the sensors aren t hard electronics
The attractive color in our face is affected by our health especially by the amount of colourful antioxidant carotenoid pigments we get from fruit and vegetables in our diet.
but our research shows that eating lots of fruit and vegetables is actually more effective. He added:
We know that you can achieve a more healthy looking skin color by eating more fruit and vegetables,
NASA plans to invest $300 million to $500 million in each of the firms selected under new 21-month partnership agreements, Ed Mango,
Mango said. Goals of the demonstration flight include reaching an altitude of at least 230 miles,
Mango said. The test ships should be capable of carrying at least four people, he added.
Mango said about 75 percent of that money is available for the next phase of the program
#Mango said. NASA hopes to be able to fly its astronauts on commercial carriers by about 2017.
From an evolutionary perceptive, sugar in the form of fruit was available only a few months of the year, at harvest time,
not a dietary staple. 6 Easy Ways to Eat More Fruits & Veggies Today, added sugar,
as opposed to natural sugars found in fruits, is added often in foods ranging from soup to soda.
Added sugar, more so than the fructose in fiber-rich fruit hits the liver more directly and can cause more damage#in laboratory rodents, anyway.
Plus, there s the added benefit of growing herbs, vegetables and even fruit at your desk or in your city apartment.
#Apple s ibooks 2 initiative for the priviledged few could leave most children behind Apple s ibooks 2 Apple s new ibooks 2 initiative has the potential
and schools will be locked into Apple s ecosystem. It s an ecosystem so expensive that it will only help the privileged few.
At Thursday s event, Apple told All Things D s Peter Kafka that all of the textbooks would be $14. 99,
What Apple s supporters don t take into account is that many schools don t pay $75 every five years.
There s also no guarantee that Apple s pricing stays at $14. 99 for all titles forever
or that the titles you want will be made available via Apple s ibooks store. If your school buys a stack of paper textbooks,
Perhaps someone other than Apple could get textbook publishers to sell transferable book licenses to schools
Apple Runs Your Curriculum Publishers who want to create titles for Apple s ibooks store must use Apple s ibooks Author application,
Apple gets to decide what content gets in, based on its arbitrary standards. The Cupertino company is nothing if not risk-averse,
Strangely, Apple s EULA agreement, as currently worded, also prevents authors who use the ibooks Author software
or service) you may only distribute the Work through Apple.##Presumably, the text you write will still be your own
3d Food Printers-As we shop for apples in the grocery store, we find ourselves looking for the perfect apple.#
#Only a small percentage of apples grown on the farm are worthy of making it into the major leagues of food the fresh produce section of our grocery stores.
But what if we could take all of those bruised and damaged apples and turn them all into perfect apples#perfect size,
perfect color, perfect crunch when we bite into them, and the perfect sweet juicy flavor and aroma that makes our mouth water every time we think about them.
Instead, they are devices with the very real potential for turning real apples into perfect apples.
such as fruits and vegetables, and allows dieters to eat more while eating fewer calories. The Mediterranean plan includes whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, healthy fats such as olive oil,
and red wine in moderation. Weight watchers focuses on portion control and encourages plenty of fruits, vegetables, whole grains,
and low-fat dairy. A panel of 22 experts also rated the plans six other ways,
which encourages eating like ancient hunter-gatherers, with fruits, vegetables, and animal proteins. Those diets tied for last place.
Biggest Loser focuses on weight loss and includes fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, and whole grains.
Turning public trees into fruit-bearing trees Money doesn t grow on trees, but that doesn t stop a group of renegade agriculturists from turning public trees into a provider for bountiful harvest by grafting fruit-bearing branches.
Meet the Guerilla Grafters What makes them guerrillas is the fact that this grafting is illegal.
#That s both because of the mess they might create in the form of rotten fruit
or bird damage that leaves most apples somewhat marginalized. They may be perfectly good on the inside,
As we shop for apples in the grocery store, we find ourselves looking for the perfect apple.#
#Only a small percentage of apples grown on the farm are worthy of making it into the major leagues of food the fresh produce section of our grocery stores.
But what if we could take all of those bruised and damaged apples and turn them all into perfect apples#perfect size,
perfect color, perfect crunch when we bite into them, and the perfect sweet juicy flavor and aroma that makes our mouth water every time we think about them.
Instead, they are devices with the very real potential for turning real apples into perfect apples.
so its best not to select the high maintenance fruits and vegetables Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.#
and robots cultivate fruit and vegetables for home and overseas markets. In a world where technology has replaced people in many roles,
ipad-sized display pieces, including the Chinese-owned Facebook-Apple Corporation s iholo mobile device. Food in Qatar is assembled commonly by nanomachines.
This will include hydroponic plants for fruits and vegetables and in vitro cloning of muscle tissue for meat, that is meat without animals,
Unfortunate, then, that the majority of the world s cocoa supply comes from West Africa,
though, farming cocoa beans isn t financially lucrative for your average West african farmer. As these kids can surely tell you,
harvesting cocoa is damn hard work. It s time-consuming (each new crop takes five years to grow),
the Chicago tribune noted, proved that farmers were turning their backs on their crops for the same reason cocoa farmers are fading fast:
When Apple s new mapping software failed so spectacularly a year ago, he knew exactly why.
So they sent a delegation to the US, to Apple, to Microsoft, to Google, and they asked the people there who were inventing the future about themselves.
like those who ate fairy fruit, you can never be entirely content with the world that you grew up in.
#Levinson is current the chair of Apple s board. He has the blessing of Apple CEO Tim cook to start this new Google-y company.
In a release, Cook said,#oefor too many of our friends and family, life has been cut short
Arthur D. Levinson, Chairman and former CEO of Genentech and Chairman of Apple, will be Chief executive officer and a founding investor.
as well as Chairman of Apple. Commenting on Art s new role, Franz Humer, Chairman of Hoffmann-la roche, said:#
#Tim cook, Chief executive officer of Apple, said:##oefor too many of our friends and family, life has been cut short
Art Levinson, Chairman and former CEO of Genentech and Chairman of Apple, will be Chief executive officer. OK#so you re probably thinking wow!
the fruit of several years of intensive research for them to taste, even take for themselves.
A Japanese research company has developed a robot that performs stereo imaging of strawberries to determine their ripeness before picking them,
#oefrom whiskey distillers in Scotland to apple growers in Australia, major users of international shipping abandoned breakbulk freight as soon as regular container shipping was able to meet their needs,
Witwer s team fed monkeys a Silk fruit and protein shake, which happens to contain high levels of mir-168 and other plant mirnas.
In the other new paper, Stephen Chan of the Brigham and Women s Hospital in Boston found that healthy athletes did not carry detectable levels of plant mirnas in their blood after eating fruit chock-full of those molecules.
prunes, raisins, blueberries, blackberries, garlic, kale, cranberries, strawberries, spinach, and raspberries. Conclusion Increasing your brain power will allow you to live your best life.
the leaves and fruits (the bits we eat) are clean, healthy and don t sit in the water.
and fruits grown without pesticides, herbicides and other harmful chemical contaminants. At that point, vertical farming in tall buildings will replace less productive single-story greenhouses as the source of all city-grown produce.
I won t tell you about the rat hair limits#)Fig paste can harbor up to 13 insect heads in 100 grams;
#oebecause the owner gets a windfall for doing nothing.##2. Farming is now cool Farming in Africa is not only profitable,
whose goods it then sells at Dutch flower auctions. 3. International demand for Africa s crops is soaring Global prices for African cocoa,
Cocoa, the key ingredient in chocolate, commands double what it did in the 1990s, which means the farmers in Ghana who grow it are together collecting $2 billion annually.
Europe s surging demand for fresh vegetables and cut flowers has been a windfall for African farmers.
they grow fruits and vegetables. Greening projects are also succeeding in Mali Tanzania, and Ethiopia.
Colombia, found that cassava outperformed potatoes, maize, beans, bananas, millet, and sorghum in tests of 24 climate-prediction and crop-suitability models.
and fruits and vegetables from western and southern Africa adorned European tables. African farmers prospered,
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#Precision agriculture moves farmers into the high tech age A variable rate irrigation system installed to water crops saves hundreds of thousands of gallons of water.
#Apple unveils top iphone and ipad apps of all time Apple s App store launched nearly five years ago
and they are counting down to the 50 billionth downloaded app. In celebration, the company will reward the person who downloads that app with a $10, 000 App store gift card.
In line with this, Apple also revealed its updated lists of all-time top iphone and ipad apps.
The Top 25 All-time Paid iphone Apps Angry Birds Fruit Ninja Doodle Jump cut the Rope Angry Birds Seasons Whatsapp Messenger Camera+Words With Friends
Facebook Messenger Google earth Fruit Ninja Free iheartradio Movies by Flixster, with Rotten Tomatoes Bump ebay PAC-MAN Lite Groupon Google maps The Top 25
Fruit Ninja HD Angry Birds Space HD Garageband Words With Friends HD Cut the Rope HD Keynote Numbers Angry Birds Star wars HD
Radio Calculator for ipad Free Fruit Ninja HD Free Words With Friends HD Free Google earth ABC Player Calculator Pro for ipad Free Temple
but because sugary items often displace fruits, vegetables and other foods that contain essential nutrients.
Added sugars do not include the sugars that occur naturally in fruit and milk. As the name implies
from apples that stave off discoloration to Golden Rice and bright-orange bananas fortified with nutrients to improve the diets of people in the poorest countries.
Other next-generation crops will be created using advanced genetic manipulation techniques that allow high-precision editing of the plant s own genome.
could soon be seen in everything from Apple s much-rumured iwatch to larger tablets. The touted arrival this year of wearable gadgets such as computer displays strapped to wrists
Apple s iwatch concept A key selling point for Willow is more efficient production which involves so-called roll-to-roll manufacturing,
#In other languages, such as Mandarin, Japanese, and German, future markers are not obligatory. The future is talked often about similar to the way present is talked about
A Mandarin speaker who is going to go to a seminar might say#oewo qu ting jiangzuo,
For speakers of languages such as Mandarin future feels closer. As a consequence, resisting immediate impulses
and investing for the future is easier for Mandarin speakers. Chen analyzed individual-level data from 76 developed and developing countries.
such as Mandarin, makes people accumulate more retirement assets, smoke less, exercise more, and generally be healthier in older age.
and environmental controls that regulate temperature, humidity and light to produce vegetables, fruits and other crops year-round.
as young people abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. Do we have a moral obligation to begin archiving our languages in a central repository as a way to preserve our cultures,
Remember kiddos#An Apple a day keeps the doctor away. An Apple every 20 seconds#well#that s too many damn Apples.
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dog food can t contain ingredients pets can t tolerate, like garlic and onions, raisins, grapes and kabocha squash,
Also known as agbots, these are used to automate agricultural processes, such as harvesting, fruit picking, ploughing, soil maintenance, weeding,
Concord, Calif. 122,683 118 Erie, Pa. 101,454 117 Milwaukee 594,328 117 Toledo, Ohio 287,487 117 Newark 276,478 116 Orange, Calif
(if an Instacart employee bruises a shopper s bananas, that shopper might blame Berkeley Bowl.)
and built for the Google or Apple executive. The Apple headquarters boast more Teslas than a Tesla showroom.
Early buyers were not price-sensitive and placed a premium on service and design. Tesla identified their innovator customer segment
When early adopters around the world see Apple and Google executives driving a Tesla, they want to be the first in their city
changing from orange to yellow to green as the food goes through different stages of freshness.
create grow-to-fit wood products, color-changing leaves, personalized fruit, etc. 129. Molecular Gastronomists 130.
Final Thoughts In much the same way that the 1985 Apple Laserwriter gave birth to desktop publishing,
Additionally, the state imports almost all of its fresh fruits and vegetables on a daily basis. While Purdue and other universities spend millions of dollars trying to find solutions for the state s agriculture challenges,
and strawberries, year-round. When the farm started three years ago, Marlin and his customers immediately noticed the incredible flavor, vibrant colors,
and immediately noticed that the chickens egg yolks changed from yellow to orange, the egg shells became thicker,
Strawberry Tower Garden In the coming decade, we look forward to helping Indiana heal the environment
In contrast, Thailand has experienced an increase in the per-head consumption of starchy roots and pulses as well as fruit,
South korea has increased fruit and vegetable consumption through a publicity social marketing and education campaign, including training of women to prepare traditional low-fat, high-vegetable meals.
According to the Oxford Dictionary the pudding is boiled a rich pudding made with flour suet and dried fruit.
Bananas dry beans and corn wrap up the top five. It worked on rats anyway. But researchers say in humans coffee might enhance the sexual experience only among people who are not habitual users.
Towns and cities named after cranberries are the most popular. In total seven townships and cities in the United states are named for cranberries
though most have different spellings. Pardon a Turkey? 7 Thanksgiving Traditions Explained 3) Who doesn't eat turkey on Thanksgiving?
 8)  Thank you berry much A lot of cranberries are needed to accompany all that turkey on Thanksgiving.
200 million and 95 million kg) of cranberries respectively. 9) Â How sweet it is Satisfying America's sweet tooth takes a few billion pounds of sweet potatoes.
</p><p><strong>Sour cherry:</</strong>Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee had applied for approval of a sour cherry dark lager called John created by a brewery employee.</
</p><p><strong>Spring Blonde:</</strong>New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins Colo. is awaiting approval for three recipes with a spokesperson telling the AP the company is worried particularly about the release of Spring Blonde its new spring label.</
6 Easy Ways to Eat More Fruits and Vegetables More than half of the preventable deaths (56 percent) occurred in people younger than 65 the report said.
and improve their diet by eating more fruits and vegetables and fewer foods with high sodium and trans fat content.
When most people think about potassium they think bananas. Bananas do contain a fair amount of this mineral (about 10%of the daily value)
but they aren't the best source. Beans leafy greens and baked potatoes are the best sources.
Avocados are a great source too good news for the guacamole lovers! Tired during the day:
You may eat a diet filled with fresh fruits and vegetables but someone asks you are they organic?
#3 Ways Cranberries Are Good for Your Health Can you name one food that you eat only once a year?
Here's a look at the health benefits of eating cranberries: 1. Warding off urinary tract infections (UTIS) You may have heard that cranberries could prevent UTIS
and perhaps thought it was an old wives'tale. But there's some science to back up this particular tale.
Compounds in cranberries called proanthocyanidins prevent E coli bacteria which are a common cause of UTIS from adhering to the urinary tract according to a 2001 in the journal Urology as well as a 2000 study in the journal Nutrition.
or weeks at a time. 3. Reducing oxidative stressâ Cranberries contain compounds called flavanoids and phenolic acids
In fact researchers who compared many common fruits found that the cranberry contained the highest quantity of disease-fighting phenols according to a 2001 study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
Raw Apple Cider vinegar: Apple cider vinegar isn't a mysterious ingredient but the raw version seems to elude most people.
That's probably because most grocery stores don't even carry it. You will find it in most health food stores though.
 Raw apple cider vinegar is rich in enzymes that you won't find in the pasteurized version
Red Grapes: Grapes don't have to be fermented to contain this antioxidant. It's actually found in the skin of red grapes along with other nutrients such as minerals manganese and potassium and vitamins K c and B1.
Peanut butter: Peanut butter is great for dressing up apples and celery but it also contains some resveratrol (up to. 13 mg per cup).
Peanut butter is a great source of niacin and manganese. Dark Chocolate: In dark chocolate resveratrol blends nicely with other antioxidants and also minerals such as iron copper and manganese.
Who doesn't like chocolate? Blueberries: Blueberries don't have quite as much resveratrol as grapes but they are also a great source of other antioxidants dietary fiber vitamins C and K and manganese.
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or it may have a negative effect on their immunity. 2. Add blueberries to your morning cereal.
Let us not underestimate the antioxidant power of this little berry. In fact blueberries rate a higher ORAC score (a measure of antioxidant capacity) than most fruits
and veggies. 3. Reduce refined carbohydratess and sugars. When it comes to boosting your body's natural immunity avoiding the negative is about as important as adding the positive.
Study participants who drank two cups of cocoa daily for 30 days showed an 8. 3 percent increase in blood flow to the brain
Make your own hot cocoa. Â Hot cocoa that comes out of a packet is convenient
but it could be better for your health. To boost the nutritional profile of your hot cocoa buy unsweetened powdered chocolate
and add your own sweetener. Also keep it as dark as you can handle. Get creative with cocoa.
If you don't like the idea of eating a dark chocolate bar or drinking cocoa regularly you have some other options.
Try sprinkling powdered cocoa in your oatmeal or cold cereal. Healthy Bites appears weekly on Livescience.
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