Now a team of chemists say they've developed a way to verify that beans labeled as civet coffee are authentic.
and their digestive tracts strip the fruit from the beans. The civets then excrete the beans
which civet coffee farmers gather wash ferment and roast. Regular little Santa's helpers civets are!
They found that digested coffee beans had significantly different levels of certain acids than non-digested beans.
Perhaps the gastric juices and the microbes in the civet digestive system give beans a distinctive acid profile the researchers wrote in a paper they published in July in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.
& oranges & broccoli & beets & pecans & cheese & garlic & olives & tomatoes & raspberries & blueberries & sweet potatoes & asparagus & cherries & bell peppers & spinach & green beans & lentils & sweet cream & popcorn
Save the tress eat the cabbage. lol. Their enlightened mentality has limits I guess. Today's magic is tomorrow's technology.
veal is a vegetable...lolalso curious what would a meatarian drink? water milk meat juice or gravy...
but we need veggies like it or not to balance out our nutritional needs. You would definately need to take vitamin supplements
I don't like vegetables; I love them. It's just that I'm drastically healthier when
Putting a tomato or squash gene for Vitamin a in rice is to them a sinister act.
For countless generations civilization has used selective breeding and splicing to modify existing strains of plants we grow for food.
Its needed this is why you should eat your carrots with butter: -Dont get me started on the reasons for the propagation of GMO tech eg. further industrialization of the agriculture better control of the farmers etc.
Tomatoes Tomahtoes I guess since the pesticides make it onto the crops anyway. Regardless I'm neither for or against GMO crops what
Examples of GMO field crops include Bt-potatoes Bt-corn Bt-sweet corn Roundup Ready soybeans Roundup Ready Corn
For example while average non-GMO corn contains 6130 ppm of calcium GMO corn contains 14 ppm four hundred-and-thirty-seven times less than the original vegetable.
and eat other vegetables. The Philippine government's campaigns to fortify flour instant noodles and other staples have reduced already dramatically Vitamin a deficiency in the country.
golden rice doesn't produce Vitamin a it produces beta carotene (think carrots or Guernsey milk) which yields Vitamin a when it is consumed.
âÂ# The article says that Vitamin a deficiency can be cured by growing say yellow vegetables
Just got a sudden craving for a hot steaming bowl of rice with soya sauce..@
For example fish genes have been placed in tomatoes human genes in tobacco bacteria in corn and viruses in squash and fruit.
Who's advocating crossing fish with vegetables and equating that it's no different than crossing white corn with yellow corn??
Scientists at MIT have built miniature liver models using micropatterning the same soft lithography technique used to put copper wires onto computer chips.
and egg (but curiously no salt) colored with beet juice and saffron and presented to the public.
How about Corn Potatoes and Wheat...Is that invasive enough for you? z=textstyle-frac {3}
I am allergic to most raw fruits and vegetables most beans and all tree nuts.
and vegetables other than whatã¢Â#Â#s canned but the inventory of even canned food would only last a few weeks at most.
How about fungi do need mushrooms sunlight to grow? could we feed on them on a nuclear winter?
#How To Turn Garden Beets Into A Drum Machine People conduct electric charges and so do vegetables.
This simple fact spurred designer Scott Garner to build the Beet Box: a machine that plays drum-kit sounds at the tap of a beet.
The beets conduct body capacitance or the electrical energy stored inside humans to a sensor plugged into a Raspberry Pi minicomputer (Pi for short.
Each touch triggers software to produce one of six percussion sounds. Garner hid the electronics inside a wooden enclosure with a lid
so that striking the beets emits clashes and snares as if by magic. 1. Box. To house a Pi a capacitive sensor a power supply
To the 12-inch-tall sides add an 8-inch-square plank that's bored to fit six beets. 2. Computer.
so it can interpret the signals. 3. Beets. Solder six wires to individual electrode ports on an MPR121 capacitive touch sensor breakout board.
Stick each wire into a different beet. 4. Wiring. Use a wire to connect the SDA port of the breakout board to pin 3 on the computer and the SCL port to pin 5. Link the board and the Pi's grounds.
Run a power cord to the Pi drop the beets into their holes then drop some beats s
In addition the center has named Long John Silver's Big Catch with a side of onion rings as the unhealthiest restaurant meal in America.
and sodium it reports for its onion rings and hushpuppies both of which may come with a Big Catch meal.
The biggest discrepancy was in the amount of trans fats the center found in Long John Silver's onion rings
For its analysis the Center for Science in the Public interest sent a Big Catch basket with onion rings to Eurofins a private international food analysis company.
#Comparing Wild Tomatoes To Supermarket Tomatoes For Delicious Geneshot-house tomatoes like you might find at the supermarket in February are beautiful perfect deep red fruits...
Wild tomatoes and heirlooms are expensive difficult to grow travel poorly prone to disease and often look flawed...
and RNA sequences of domestic and wild tomatoes. Science20 describes it this way: If the DNA sequence is the list of parts for making a tomato plant the MESSENGER RNA transcripts are the step-by-step instructions.
and wild tomatoes and examined the effect of both natural evolution and artificial selection (the latter of which is severe in the tomato plant).
Theoretically the comparison could allow genetic biologists to pick out exactly which genes they want to splice to have desired the effect on the tomato.
crossbreeding of wild and domestic tomatoes is common but kind of a crapshoot since previously the relationship between genes wasn't as well understood.
This may help with future efforts to breed new traits into tomato or other crops said Julin Maloof of the University of California Davis who was one of the lead researchers on the paper.
but this is the first time it's been applied to tomatoes. It's certainly a better method than peeing on tomatoes to help them grow better.
Genetically-modified tomatoes aren't new; recall the controversial Flavrsavr from the mid-90s which quickly went off the market leaving no GMO tomatoes available for purchase.
But if genetic modification can give us a tomato that's got the taste and texture of an heirloom with the ease of growth lack of disease and ease of transport of a hothouse tomato we're on board.
You can read the entire paper here. Our grocery stores are stocked to the brim with nearly 100%garbage that has almost no nutritional value at all.
GMO's have delivered negative nutritional returns and may be contributing to disease. Now to strawberries. Remember that the whole house smelled of them 50-60 years ago o
#Video: Rice Puffs Explode From A Giant Cannon In a borrowed warehouse space in Brooklyn
The pathogen shares the same genus as the organism that caused The irish potato famine. Other Phytophthora species are able to infect almost all of the fruit and nut trees people plant around the world.
but had she been eating any assortment of vegetables that have plenty of potassium I'm sure she would have been able to keep her levels up. probably not even Mcdonald's executives would suggest that anybody actually do this.
and mixed vegetables for a month we would have the most boring documentary of a person who ended up healthier than they started would we not?
Lots of vegetables (mostly raw) high-fiber fruits (like plums and such) low carbs and clean protein (although I do have a weakness for steak.
#Watch This Gentle Robot Handle Tofu Without Breaking It Packaging tofu requires a gentle touch.
but moving too quickly can cause the tofu to break. So engineers at manufacturing company Lands Work created a robot to do the job.
and placement of soft tofu bricks then carefully packages them at a rate of only 1200 to 1500 pieces per hour the manufacturers say.
Packaging a relatively firm slab of fried tofu can up that rate to 2500 pieces per hour.
tomato salad garlic naan flash-fried wasabi chicken. The pickled cucumbers bell peppers and okra are from our garden laid down in rows beside the solar tarps.
The backbone comp banishes the light sketches and seals the family's network connections behind emergency-only courtesy walls.
Canadian author Bennett R. Coles paints a fascinating and daunting image of the future in his writing.
#England, Meet Your New Giant Sheep-Eating Plantpuya chilensis is a very large bromeliad native to the mountains of Chile.
The syllable con indicates that they trick you to spill the beans on yourself. I realise that some animal experimentation must be done but the older
#The Secret Life Of Produceever planted a potato that sprouted after you brought it home from the store?
Those veggies that were exposed to light-dark cycles were more resistant to insects and produced natural chemicals normally made for plant defense that may be healthful for humans.
but instead of using whole plants they used circular discs cut out from cabbage leaves. It turned out that the discs even though they were cut off from the rest of the plant still made glucosinolates in day-night cycles
Caterpillars ate 20 percent more of out-of-sync cabbage leaves than they did of in-sync cabbage leaves Caterpillars also ate more of cabbage leaves that were kept in constant light
The hungry hungry caterpillar-repelling effect worked for about a week after the cabbage was harvested the biologists discovered.
Shoppers usually buy cabbage 24 to 72 hours after it's harvested the biologists found after talking with grocers.
The effect also works with other foods the biologists tested including lettuce spinach zucchini sweet potatoes carrots and blueberries.
and cabbage so they don't make glucosinolates but they must make another natural insect repellant the biologists wrote.
One preliminary study has suggested glucosinolates may be part of the reason why people who eat lots of cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage
and broccoli have lower rates of cancer. If grocers maintained day-night cycles for their wares they might maintain more healthful chemicals for shoppers to consume the biologists wrote.
Nevertheless it's cool to know that all those carrots lying quietly on their shelves are actually doing live plant biochemistry
Surveys done in the past few years have found that both types of bees contribute to pollinating U s. crops with native bees playing an especially important role for American plants such as pumpkins blueberries and tomatoes.
This article originally listed eggplant as an example of a plant that's native to The americas and better pollinated by native bee.
Eggplants are not native to The americas. However they do require bumblebees to pollinate them. Domestic honeybees don't make the correct movements eggplant flowers need.
I apologize for the error. Bees are magical and bring life upon the Earth. I adore BEES!..
Michaud is grateful for the Breakout Labs funding though he says that in comparison to what power companies could give this is pretty small potatoes.
Crops from almonds to berries to broccoli to onions all depend on bee pollination. In addition to breeding colony collapse-resistant bees the Washington researchers hope to breed new bees with other traits American farmers from different regions want.
You can then use the chicken manure to fertilize duckweed ponds use the duckweed to feed tilapia filter the tilapia water thru a gravel growbed use the gravel growbed to grow vegetables
and the vegetables use the tilapia guts and veggie scraps to feed the black soldier fly larvae
and the cycle starts again. Aquaponics for the win! All better than eating bugs. Plain and simple.
and beef) and look into creative ways of processing the raw material into consumer friendly and meal preparation friendly packaging (think tofu).
That meltwater would account for only about two meters of global sea rise according to Dorthe Dahl-Jensen a paleoclimate researcher at the University of Copenhagen who led the NEEM project.
me to a place that has pulled pork nachos? I accuse looking at the menu. On day two my dad makes barbecue
If I can force myself to live on only Soylent in the face of mac and cheese my dad's barbecue and pulled pork nachos surely
It is also entirely possible to modify flavour with the addition of ingredients--eg. fresh fruits vegetables artificial flavours spices etc.
no enzymes and lacking possibly hundreds of essential nutrients and other co-factors which are found in living foods like I don't know fruit vegetables meat and whole'raw'dairy products?
They're not great fliers says Cole Gilbert a professor of entomology at Cornell University.
and Clinton's being turned in to french fries in the global warming crisis? Where are their priorities?
#Scientists Reveal The Cause Of The irish Potato Famineit's widely acknowledged that Phytophthora infestans a sort of funguslike pathogen also known as potato blight was responsible for the mid-19th-century potato famine that reduced Ireland's population through death and emigration by nearly 25 percent.
But scientists have uncovered just the specific strain of this pathogen through a first-of-its kind procedure--by analyzing potato plants that have been dead for more than a hundred years.
The irish Potato Famine lasted just a few years from around 1845 to 1852 but killed about a million people
The irish population at that point was reliant on one specific white potato The irish lumper as a primary food source for about a third of the country.
Potatoes like most other members of the nightshade family (tomatoes eggplant) are native to the New world not to Ireland.
Previously it was assumed that a strain known as US-1 was responsible for The irish Potato Famine but this research found that the strain on these dried potato plants is not in fact US-1. It's related
but genetically unique and US-1 was more likely to be the strain that replaced the culprit after it was eliminated.
If there is ever another potato famine maybe Popsci could give the modest proposal of cloning babies as a meal replacement supplement.
Q. How many potatoes does it take to kill and Irishman? A. None. Badum...ching g
#NASA Invests In 3-D Food Printer For Mars Missionsit would take a lot of food to get astronauts to Mars but
the sauce which would be a mixture of tomato powder oil and water; or the ambiguous gross-sounding protein layer which could be made from milk animals or plants.
It would probably look like the food served on the Discovery 1. http://www. collativelearning. com/PICS%20for%20website/stills/2001interview. jpga flat tray of rehydrated mashed potatoes a flat tray of rehydrated
meatloaf powder a flat tray of rehydrated carrot puree...All eaten with a spork. You know when I first caught wind of the 3d printer's existence
and get big chicken with vegetables. Instead of spending millions of dollars on developing these food devices for space travel why don't we just send fat people into space?
But even the hottest southernmost parts of North america--then still detached from South america--were too chilly or otherwise inhospitable for the North american Primates.
The HEI as it's usually called awards points for a diet that includes more of certain items (dark green vegetables whole grains seafood) and also points for less of other items (refined grains sodium and the vague empty calories.
and would actually taste good-most dont like to eat blend green leaves and pretty tastless vegetables thats usually available.
Poor people eat rice beans bananas and occasionally some meat. Mike I was a full-time student working a full time job with 3 kids
and dinner ($140 per week for 5 adult-sized people) Get some eggs ($3) milk ($3 bread ($1) peanut butter ($3) bananas ($2) a bag of potatoes ($2
) oatmeal ($2)( not the packets) rice ($2) frozen spinach ($1) and frozen peas ($1). Boom. $20.
You need more than vegetables for sustenance like grains protein fat (vegetable or animal) and basically calories
You can't simply tell a 15-30yo-aged male to eat potatoes and beans;
and resources needed to prepare my own predominantly meat and vegetable centric diet. But I feel for those that don't have this luxury.
As Moose says You can't simply tell a 15-30yo-aged male to eat potatoes and beans.
It excludes processed foods forces you to eat more vegetables good fats and leaner meats.
Please eat more veggies less meat!!!Thank you! Although this concept does apply...our atmosphere is just a bit more dynamic than a beer can and a koozie.
when people claim that eating veggies will stop cattle farming and lead to less green house gass production1. farm subsidies means that the cattle will live longer before being slaughtered for a cull
and speciual diets fed to the cattle will increase the farts. 3. the increase in vegetables will decrease the natural arid landscapes kept by cattle farmers that adds to the clean air in favour for industrial farming that ruins natural habitat
but for their pollination services--without them you wouldn't have almonds blueberries tomatoes and a long list of other crucial crops.
Corn soybeans and all other Midwestern crops with GMO'S counterparts are self pollinating-hives are introduced not.
and mushrooms should be considered an insult to the readers intelligence.@@Auroria: You forgot one important point;
If all these other deaths were shown the death count for alcohol would be much much greater. 2. Overdose deaths from cannabis LSD magic mushrooms
and it's ours too in the form of tasty things like potatoes wheat and corn.
A key ingredient in this process a special polypeptide cap is found in potatoes. The resulting product is not exactly the future of bread flour
-and presto chango-ones goes from an amoeba to an elephant. well cool beans. But Even Darwin lost sleep over this.
and aesthetic sensibility of a bundle of Swiss chard--the executives point to this graph. But look they say with the tone of a parent explaining the ways of the world to a toddler.
Does it come with big@ss fries and a big@ss coke too? nkfro. It sounds better than bonehead It is a domain
And you girls a pillow or bedpost or fruit and vegetables? I mean it's just all about friction isn't it?
#Building A Better Bed bug Trap An old folk remedy involving hairy bean leaves strewn around the bedroom may have a new life as a modern bed bug trap according to new research from the University of California Irvine
when The english philosopher John Locke wrote of placing kidney bean leaves under the pillow or around the bed to keep bed bugs from biting as he traveled through Europe.
Loudon's team tipped single male bed bugs from a glass vial onto the bottom surface of kidney bean leaves
and bean leaves similar trichomes on other plants are known to capture ants aphids bees flies
Of course keeping fresh bean leaves on hand isn't an easy bed bug fix says Loudon: The inconvenience of bean leaves is that not everyone wants them scattered around their bed room.
Synthetics mimicking the surface of the bean leaf however could be placed as a ring around the bed legs a floor mat at the door a strip on the bed board it could be something one put's in one's suitcase Loudon adds
since bed bugs really only get from one place to another by walking or being carried. Ideally a synthetic version would have the same geometry
To do this Loudon and her team used dental impression putty to create negative molds from the surface of the real bean leaves then filled these molds with epoxies of varying strengths and stiffnesses.
and start to plan many many bean plants:).I try to educate everyone on bed bug prevention methods on my free time
Vegetables feel pain. But they don't have tiny little faces to show us the horror that they experience before we kill them.
Twelve farmers in Five Points Calif. have received a $5 million state grant to build a plant that turns sugar beets into fuel the Associated press reports.
If the experiment works California will build a larger plant in 2016 that would become the U s.'first commercial sugar beet biorefinery the AP reported.
but the beets have a couple things going for them. The science of making sugar beet ethanol is established well already.
Europe has more than a dozen beet biorefineries the AP reported. California has grown also successfully sugar beets before.
The state was once home to 330000 acres of sugar beets and 11 beet sugar mills. When sugar prices collapsed 10 of those mills closed
but beets should still grow well in the California soil and climate. Associated press in the San jose mercury news Ah another federally subsidized scam to increase the costs of sugar
and food by getting these welfare queen farmers to grow according to the latest BS. Excellent!
The AP article says you'll get twice as much ethanol from beets as you would from corn.
I've also read that required energy investments are lower for beets. Nonetheless I'd rather stay skeptical of this until
I see a thorough EROEI analysis that actually shows this makes sense. Getting an EROEI ratio of 4
The proposed biofuels plant creates an entirely new market for Monsanto's genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet.
In North america GE sugar beet for biofuels would have been an ideal public relations coup for Monsanto but one that could have cost farmers and consumers in the long run.
Please research Monsanto GMOS and sugar beets. This is not good news s
#16,000 Dead Pigs In The Huangpu: Can You Still Drink Shanghai's Water? Chinese officials have fished more than 16000 pig carcasses from the Huangpu River from
If you're not quite that adventurous stick with Forastero beans from Ghana. Cocoa and nutty flavors no funny business.
#Raid Your Kitchen To Build This Potato chip Speakerin 1921 two scientists made the first modern loudspeaker out of magnets wire and paper.
A potato chip works as a sound-emitting diaphragm here but other rigid foods work just as well.
inch by 1. 5 inches A wooden cutting board or piece of particleboard One 6-inch-long-inch-diameter dowel Sandpaper A hot-glue gun Potato chips (thick-cut
chips work best) 2) Build a voice coil Wrap the magnet wire tightly around the dowel to make a âÂinch-tall coil leaving 12 inches of wire on each end.
Hot-glue the magnets and strips to the particleboard and then the coil to a chip.
Next glue a cardboard strip to each end of the chip while centering the coil over the magnet. 4) Rock out Connect the sanded speaker wires to an amplified audio source such as a home entertainment center (a portable player may lack enough power)
Here is a song to play out of your potato chip speaker!..One potato two potato three potato four Five potato six potato seven potato more Potato chip yeah Potato chips now alright She always flips
when she gets her grip on a crunchy munchy potato chipi got a girl she makes
me flip All she wants is potato chips Whoa potato chips yeah What I say She always flips
when she gets her grip on a crunchy munchy potato chipshe don't like'em hashed she don't like'em fried
But there's only one way to make her satisfied Potato chip whoa Potato chips now you gotta listen to me She always flips
when she gets her grip on a crunchy munchy potato chipwhoa yeah c'mon baby c'mon girl c'mon baby c'mon girl whoa whoa yeah She moves me and
grooves me she's a mass of class a real gas My one and only potato chip She's my potato chip She's my potato chip She's my potato chip whoa She's my potato chipa potato chip works as a sound-emitting diaphragm here but other rigid foods work
just as well. No they don't; the more flexible the better. If you want to make a fun loudspeaker (that works well) tape a coil to the side of an inflated balloon feed a signal in
We not only made a a potato chip speaker but we also used a paper plate and a piece of swiss cheese and a tortilla chip.
All of them worked. We thought the piece of cheese was a little too much so we tried one with just the coil
So is the potato chip really doing anything? We could hear differences between the the different diaphragms
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