#Chocolate Healthier Than Fruit: Study Researchers found that chocolates contain more healthy plant compounds and antioxidants, gram-for-gram, than fruit juice.
#Top 10 Photos of the Week Todays couch potatoes have a way of turning every disaster into a spectator sport I saw the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and
howstuffworks 6.)Chopping Onions No matter how manly you think you are, cutting onions will make you tear up.
Onions release an enzyme known as Lachrymatory-factor synthase into the air when they are cut open.
The enzyme converts the sulfoxides (amino acids) in the onion into the unstable compound sulfenic acid which rearranges itself into something called syn-ropanethial-S-oxide.
Syn-ropanethial-S-oxide is a chemical irritant which causes the lachrymal glands to release tears when it comes in contact.
If you have never cut onions yourself than you may not be convinced so but shortly after the knife cuts the onion you are sure to notice.
Three ways to help prevent this is to run water near to where you are cutting the onion,
to put the onion in the fridge half an hour before cutting it, or to avoid cutting the root.
If you still tear up while cutting onions, and have nothing better to spend your money on,
you can always purchase the incredibly useful Onion Goggles for $19. 95 (available in black, white, or pink!).
Source: everydaymysteries 7.)Freckles Freckles are flat tan, brown, or black spots that can appear on skin that has been exposed to the sun. These spots are abnormal collections of melanin,
The autumn soybean harvest in the United states was poor, so strong demand means stocks are at their lowest level in 50 years,
Brokers are waiting to see how acreage in the United states will be divided between soybeans, corn and cotton, with cotton fetching record prices,
#In the future, Your Car May be made of Mushrooms Video games have long been using mushrooms as a source for power, energy and advancement.
In the future, mushrooms may be as common in cars as they are on pizza. Believe it or not,
scientists who are trying to find more sustainable ways to build car parts believe the answers may be found in things such as mushroom roots.
drove one of the Fiestas with foam made from soy beans and admits that he never would have noticed
if Mielewski hadnt spilled the beans herself. There is no way anyone can tell, #Pogue told AOL News. They are identical in springiness
She says scientists at Ford are experimenting by mixing some mushroom roots together with other plant matter, like wheat straw,
The mushroom car parts are a ways off from being introduced into cars, but Pogue believes they will not only change how parts are manufactured,
from homes and water towers to the cooking oil used by snack-food companies. It is a niche business that suffered during the recession
The FDA has had trouble quickly pinpointing the source of national outbreaks of food-borne illness a task complicated by a lengthy food supply chain where tomatoes might change hands five times from farm to store.
Initially, investigators at the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identified tomatoes as the culprit
In the meantime, the cost to tomato growers in Florida alone was estimated at about $100 million. While the traceability system will improve the tools available to the FDA,
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 tofu (372 mg). Youll notice that none of these food choices include dairy, a pleasant surprise.
#Additionally, look to other components of protecting the bones like getting Vitamin d through 10 to 15 minutes of sunshine without sunscreen each day and Vitamin k from green leafy vegetables like kale and spinach.
and vegetables because there are no grocery stores or farmers markets nearby. Such areas are plagued often with quickie marts where families feed themselves the processed junk thats available
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.
and increased the consumption of dairy products, cereal and potatoes. This confirms what we as parents know,
fish soup, duck fat potatoes, fusilli con cinghiale (pasta with wild boar. With each bite and sigh of delight,
As the groups name implies, the dishes contained ingredients#mushrooms, leafy greens and seaweed#that were gathered in the wild.
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#
POLLINATING TOMATOES This is the way to pollinate tomatoes, Cameron said#although smaller bees can accomplish the same effect if enough cluster on a single flower.
The best friends of obesity are french fries, potato chips and soda. Most of you are rolling your eyes saying#duh,
And I have to agree on the french fries and soda. That was my go to #when I was a size 22.
or eggplant and figure out why people do or don t like that taste. As Kevin Fitchard, Gigaom s resident foodie, recently reported, some of this is happening now.
By compiling foodpairing trees#its technology can identify vegetable or seafood ingredients that reinforce the flavor of different meats,
#Chef s Farm a vending machine that grows 20,000 heads of lettuce a year without sunlight Lettuce vending machine After a nuclear holocaust has blocked out the sun
or rampaging zombies have taken over our farmland there is finally a device that will guarantee we can still grow vegetables in the dark.
This Japanese lettuce-growing vending machinet doesn t require sunlight (it uses fluorescent bulbs) and it can churn out a surprising yield of lettuce:
60 heads a day, or over 20,000 a year. DVICE explains: The machine, called the Chef s Farm,
and can produce 60 heads of lettuce per day (or 20,000 heads per year) grown under 40 watt fluorescent lighting housed in a chrome housing that can be stored conveniently in any restaurant.
It can evidently grow other kinds of veggies as well. The portable fluorescent garden goes is on sale for $90, 000,
with the target market ostensibly being restaurants that want locally manufactured, sun-free vegetables on site.
The lettuce seeds are planted in sponges in frames that have to be moved manually The lighting equipment, culture solution,
and five different vegetables can be cultivated at the same time. Obviously, shining twelve 40 watt bulbs on a shelf of seeds isn t the most efficient way to grow veggies,
and there s no word on just how much water these nutri-culture beds consume to pump out the lettuce at such a rapid clip
#and there s no word on the quality or nutritional value of the lettuce either. I suppose it would cut down on delivery emissions,
but not much more than using locally-sourced produce. But at least Soylent Green won t be the only menu item in the dystopic urban wastelands of the future.
Vertical farming is like skyscrapers with vegetables climbing along the windows or like a library-sized greenhouse with racks of cascading vegetables instead of books.
Entrepreneur Jack Ng says he can produce five times as many vegetables as regular farming looking up instead of out.
Half a ton of his Sky Greens bok choy and Chinese cabbages grown inside 120 slender 30-foot towers,
are already finding their way into Singapore s grocery stores. Ng s technology is called A-Go-Gro,
Trays of Chinese vegetables are stacked inside an aluminum A-frame, and a belt rotates them
Gotham Greens is producing pesticide-free lettuce and basil for restaurants and retailers from rooftop greenhouses in Brooklyn,
while Lufa Farms grows 23 veggie varieties in a 31,000 foot greenhouse atop a Montreal office building.
The Sky Greens vegetables are flying off the shelves, #reports Channel Newsasia#perhaps because the vertical veggies are fresher than most available in Singapore,
which imports most of its produce from China, Malaysia and the U s. They do, however, cost about 5 to 10 percent more than regular greens.
and the vegetables are very fresh and very crispy,##Rolasind Tan, a consumer, told Channel Newsasia.
he planted some vegetables in the garden. He didn t expect to live to harvest them,
Elpiniki could enjoy the fresh vegetables after he was gone. Six months came and went. Moraitis didn t die.
Lunch was almost always beans (lentils, garbanzos), potatoes, greens (fennel, dandelion or a spinachlike green called horta) and whatever seasonal vegetables their garden produced;
like that of others around the Mediterranean, was rich in olive oil and vegetables, low in dairy (except goat s milk) and meat products,
It emphasized homegrown potatoes, beans (garbanzo, black-eyed peas and lentils), wild greens and locally produced goat milk and honey.
You could even argue that potatoes contributed heart-healthy potassium Vitamin b6 and fiber to the Ikarian diet.
She found that her subjects consumed about six times as many beans a day as Americans, ate fish twice a week
combined them with pumpkin and baked them into savory pies. My favorite was made a dish with black-eyed peas, tomatoes,
fennel tops and garlic and finished with olive oil that we dubbed Ikarian stew. Despite her consummately Ikarian air, Parikos was born actually in Detroit to an American father and an Ikarian mother.
She had attended high school, worked as a real estate agent and married in the United states. After she and her husband had their first child,
instead planting a huge garden that provided most of their fruits and vegetables. She lost weight without trying to.
Village markets are now selling potato chips and soda, which in my experience is replacing tea as the drink of choice among younger Ikarians.
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.
The old standards set a 1. 5-to 2-ounce daily minimum of a meat or meat alternate such as cheese, peanut butter or tofu.
Besides meat and meat alternatives, students get protein in milk and legumes, she says. It s an outdated idea that kids aren t getting enough protein#most kids are eating twice the recommended amount#
and vegetables at lunch as they want from self-serve bars. That s probably the healthiest way to add more calories
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
growing tobacco, then corn, cotton and soybeans. Today, they lease it out to other farmers, so they can concentrate on the historical tourism aspect of the property,
Are organic fruits and vegetables more nutritious than conventional fruits and vegetables? Maybe#or maybe not.
and vegetables labeled organic were, on average, no more nutritious than their conventional counterparts, which tend to be far less expensive.
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.
And at Earthbound Farms in California, four newly installed robot arms with customized suction cups swiftly place clamshell containers of organic lettuce into shipping boxes.
Anthony Lackore, 24, graduated from Iowa State in 2010 and works as a production agronomist raising soybean seeds for Dupont Pioneer,
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,
In one classic experiment scientists showed that dodder prefers tomato to wheat because it prefers the smell. 3b.
But now the best beans are increasingly being set aside and shipped in vacuum-sealed packs (instead of burlap bags).
. 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.
#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.
Speaking to Science Daily, he explains Popcorn may be the perfect snack food. It s the only snack that is 100 percent unprocessed whole grain.
and vegetables provides between 200-250 mg. Vinson presented the work at the 243rd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society.
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.
94 percent of soybeans and 72 percent of corn is being grown this way. Conventional foods are modified largely genetically
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,
But NPR had a great story this weekend looking at the early days of Roundup-tolerant soybeans
when Monsanto asked the U s. Department of agriculture to approve Roundup-tolerant soybeans, it dispensed with the issue of potential resistant weeds in two modest paragraphs.
#The company also wrote that several university scientists agreed that it is highly unlikely that weed resistance to glyphosate will become a problem as a result of the commercialization of glyphosate-tolerant soybeans.#
Tempeh, tofu, quinoa, lentils, eggs, peanut butter, nuts, soy, beans, as well as fish and shellfish, are all rising up in our search queries.#
#Meatless dishes on the Sobro Cafe menu include barbecue lentils, sweet-and-sour cabbage, a savory Dutch pancake and a veggie burger that s the No. 1 seller.
And eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. They re nutritionally dense and an excellent use of your food budget.
Tofu and beans generally cost less, ounce to ounce, than chicken, beef, pork, lamb, or fish.
Buy freshly roasted whole-bean coffee, and grind it and brew it at home. You don t need a thousand-dollar espresso machine to enjoy good coffee, either:
Even if you re in the city without a yard, things like herbs, tomatoes, and lettuces can be grown in containers. 9) Buy in bulk,
but only when it makes sense. This is a good way to save money on staples like legumes
nuts, flours, and grains in stores that offer bulk bins. And Amazon and big-box stores like Costco are established well sources of savings
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.
and vegetables is actually more effective. He added: Our study shows that being healthy may be the best way for men to look attractive.
We know that you can achieve a more healthy looking skin color by eating more fruit and vegetables,
especially with its garnish pack s mention that the veggies vary depending on the season of production!
Some baked chicken, green onions and hard boiled egg. 7. Nong Shim Shin Ramyun Black#Korea Twenty years after the introduction of the well-known Shin Ramyun, Nong Shim
A huge block of noodles, a veggie packet that also has freeze dried beef, red spicy seasoning,
and onion and oxtail soup packets, make this a culinary onslaught of epic proportion. Perfect complement:
add an egg, bok choy and a single slice of processed cheese. 6. Myojo Hyoubanya no Chukasoba Japanese Style Noodles, Oriental Flavor#Japan A very good, very traditional instant noodle from Japan.
A bit of roast beef and some chopped onions. 3. Nissin Yakisoba with Mayonnaise/Mustard Packet#Japan Yakisoba is a very commonly enjoyed dish in Japan
This is quite good especially the vegetables. Perfect complement: Nothing#enjoy in its native state! 2. Indomie Mi Goreng Rasa Ayam Panggang Jumbo, Barbecue Chicken Flavour#Indonesia First off, it s a jumbo pack,
The flavorings in concert with a couple fried eggs, some pickled ginger and fried shallots make this one not to miss. 1. Indomie Special Quality, Special Fried Curly Noodles#Indonesia Truly the best instant noodles
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and there is no denying that garden-fresh veggies are preferable to ones that have spent the past several days in a truck or on a supermarket shelf.
the Urban Cultivator is enclosed an hydroponic system designed for continuously growing herbs and smaller vegetables indoors.
and sugar beets#has been as detrimental to society as alcohol and tobacco. Sour words about sugar The background is well-known:
not a dietary staple. 6 Easy Ways to Eat More Fruits & Veggies Today, added sugar,
such as fresher vegetables in processed foods. Some researchers argue that saturated fat, not sugar, is the root cause of obesity and chronic disease.
, soybean, cotton, potato and rice) not only locally, but also by traveling many thousands of kilometers downwind.
%North american pollution contributes the most to worldwide losses of maize (60-70%)and soybean (75-85%.
Plus, there s the added benefit of growing herbs, vegetables and even fruit at your desk or in your city apartment.
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.
6.)Top 10 Photos February 7, 2011 Today s couch potatoes have a way of turning every disaster into a spectator sport I saw the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and
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,
For instance, in Lives of Grass by Mathilde Roussel, a work that features two grass covered figurative sculptures, Roussel explores the cyclic metamorphosis that transforms organic matter whether vegetable, animal or human.
and vegetables and in vitro cloning of muscle tissue for meat, that is meat without animals, thereby ending animal suffering.
which can in turn be attributed to the previous year s weak corn and soybean harvests. But it s not just Britain;
A vanilla flavoring that promises to be significantly cheaper than the costly extract made from beans grown in rain forests is scheduled to hit the markets in 2014.
Evolva officials say they believe there will still be a strong market for artisan ingredients like vanilla from real beans
Run by CEO Jim Mason who owns the space#the 5-year-old startup now produces technology used to transform dense biomass like corn husks or wood chips into clean, sustainable,
Feed a bunch of walnut shells or wood chips into these $27 000 machines and you get fully clean energy at less than 10 cents a kilowatt hour, a fraction of
#NASA plans to grow vegetables in space NASA is organizing the Vegetable Production System (VEGGIE) program that will send packs of seed material to the ISS.
Astronaut Don Pettit successfully grew a zucchini, broccoli, and sunflower on the ISS, but NASA is now researching how vegetables may be grown in space for consumption.
NASA is organizing the Vegetable Production System (VEGGIE) program that will send packs of a pellet-like seed material wrapped in Kevlar to the ISS.
When planted under LED lights this material will turn into lettuce. Once grown, the lettuce will be sent back to Earth for analysis to determine
if it s safe to eat. We wouldn t want our astronauts coming down with space food poisoning,
would we? And then once the food is deemed safe for consumption, the astronauts will get treated with a fresh meal.
NASA chose lettuce for the experiment because it s generally ready to eat straight out of the soil.
Other vegetableish things like potatoes are only good when cooked, and crops like wheat and rice take a longer time to grow.
Lettuce is an ideal choice for this project to figure out what s possible with space farming,
but NASA hopes to eventually grow other vegetables like radishes, peas, and tomatoes. Growing plants in space also has other
Everything from pop, to juice, to vegetables, to beer, to soup, and much more. Transporting water is expensive
and MIT has a cherry tomato garden that is managed by a small crew of robots equipped with vision sensors.
#have created a chip that can support a holographic display of 50 gigapixels per second#nough to simulate real world objects,
Any simple carbohydratessuch as pasta, sugars, white bread and potato chipscan make you tired and lethargic.
prunes, raisins, blueberries, blackberries, garlic, kale, cranberries, strawberries, spinach, and raspberries. Conclusion Increasing your brain power will allow you to live your best life.
and salad greens Growup s Kickstarter-funded aquaponic farm is a circular ecosystem with 150 fish, all self-contained in a box.
It is producing both fresh vegetables and fresh fish, all in one compact setup. Growup founders Kate Hofman and Tom Webster built the Kickstarter-funded farm to demonstrate the possibilities of aquaponic farmingwhere wastewater from fish tanks is turned into nutrients (with a little help from microbacteria) that fertilize plants
but the Kickstarter page assures us that the vegetables (the box can grow salads, herbs,
and our vegetables are delicious. Since the roots of the plants absorb the nutrients from the water,
Already, we have large-scale indoor farms such as Eurofresh Farms in Willcox, Arizona (318 acres (1. 3 square km) of one-storey-high hydroponic greenhouses), supplying fresh tomatoes
and cucumbers, andfarmedhere in Bedford Park, Illinois, a 90,000 square-foot (8, 360 square metre) empty warehouse several storeys tall that was converted into an indoor farm producing tilapia (freshwater fish), a variety of leafy green vegetables,
and several value-added products. Indoor farms (controlled environment agriculture or CEA) will undoubtedly replace most outdoor urban agricultural initiatives as the advantages of farming within protected environments become more widely accepted.
such as leafy greens and tomatoes. In early 2013, Phillips in The netherlands announced it had invented an LED light with energy efficiency 150%greater than existing LED grow lights.
Although most current vertical farming operations have chosen to specialise in cash crops consisting of leafy green vegetables (easy to grow and much in demand
in the near future, consumers are likely to ask for a wider variety of vegetables and fruits grown without pesticides, herbicides and other harmful chemical contaminants.
and eat grasshoppers as snack food. In a village where many children were already at risk of suffering from kwashiorkor,
Staples like broccoli, canned tomatoes, and hops readily contain#oeinsect fragments##eads, thoraxes, and legs#nd even whole insects.
but to launch an aquaponics farm, raising organic lettuce, tomatoes, and herbs indoors in nutrient-rich vats.
grows cassava and a kind of leafy spinach in a field she leases. While she consumes some of the produce,
the aquaponics farmer in Accra, says his yields of organic vegetables and herbs are up to eight times those of traditional farms,
cotton, and even green beans are at or near historic highs. Cocoa, the key ingredient in chocolate, commands double
Europe s surging demand for fresh vegetables and cut flowers has been a windfall for African farmers.
#In Zambia, for instance, one in five cotton farmers and one in 20 vegetable farmers have achieved now#oecommercial success PDF,#reports Steven Haggblade of Michigan State university and his colleagues.
and cowpeas, have in the last two decades rapidly expanded in production, bringing unexpected benefits.#
in St louis, is genetically engineering the vegetable to contain more iron and beta-carotene. Another effort, based at Cornell University,
Cowpeas#nutritious crop known as black-eyed peas in the American south#lso show how much can be done with even basic technology.
Weevil infestations caused postharvest losses as high as 50 percent until Purdue University researchers discovered that storing the cowpeas in airtight containers could preserve the crop for up to a year.
They devised the Purdue Improved Cowpea Storage (PICS) bag, made from two inner high-density-polyethylene plastic bags and an outer nylon sack.
1. 7 million cowpea farmers in West and Central africa will increase their annual incomes by an average of $150 PDF#significant increase in a region where most farmers live on about $2 per day. 5
and cowpea farm in eastern Uganda. She gets to keep the money she earns from her fields
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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