#NY Giant Pumpkin Carving Weekend Smashes Record The world s largest pumpkin and gourds are on display this weekend through Halloween at the New york Botanical garden where expert carvers are currently at work providing
Breaking last year s record the centerpiece pumpkin this year is a frightfulâ 2032 pounds (922 kilograms)
Master Carver Ray Villafane a former school teacher who became a professional pumpkin carver seven years ago told AFP that this year s giant pumpkin with its overlapping folds
and creases is perfect for creating a hive of pumpkin wasps. PHOTOS: Autumn Colors The Haunted Pumpkin Garden will also display four other ginormous pumpkins which Villafane
and a team of carvers will transform into carnivorous plants and other unearthly creatures. Two pumpkins from New brunswick Canada won their regional weigh-off competitions with a hefty 1813 pounds and 1024.5 pounds.
Another two from Edinburgh Pennsylvania weighed-in at 1496 pounds and 1391.5 pounds. The Haunted Garden will also display the world s largest watermelon weighing 350.5 pounds
and charted every vegetable market in the Washington D c. area according to Kendall. Baseball legend Ted Williams of the Boston red sox also exhibited the traits of OCPD Kendall said.
And yet despite continued success and the basic facts that given good soil sunlight and water a good seed will sprout he is still in awe every spring when his seedlings first pop up in his planters.
#Organic Tomatoes Have More Vitamin c Organically grown tomatoes are more nutritious in some ways than the conventionally grown variety a new study from Brazil suggests.
The results show that organically grown tomatoes while smaller have higher levels of Vitamin c as well as more plant phenols a class of compounds that act as antioxidants than do grown conventionally tomatoes.
The organic variety might also taste slightly different as they have higher levels of sugar
Recently the American Academy of Pediatrics said it's important for children to eat a diet that's high in fruits vegetables whole grains
Harry Klee a professor at the University of Florida's Horticultural Sciences Department who was involved not in the study said the organic tomatoes in this study might have had more nutrients not necessarily
and a plant that has smaller fruit is better able to fill each tomato with nutrients than a plant that bears a larger fruit Klee said.
Organic tomatoes have more Vitamin c and plant phenols but it's not clear whether eating them instead of conventional tomatoes would provide more health benefits.
This story was provided by Myhealthnewsdaily a sister site to Livescience. Follow Rachael Rettner on Twitter@Rachaelrettner
More benignly eating a lot of beets can turn your pee pink. Orange Dark-colored urine also points to health problems.
People who eat enough carrots to turn their skin orange can have orange pee too she added.
and vegetables end up on the grill. Wrapping your meat or corn on the cob in foil is crucial
or vegetables cross-contamination with buns or marinades could be dangerous. I also suggest bringing a gluten-free bun with you to the cookout
or using a large piece of lettuce as a substitute for a hamburger bun. Parents should also ask
Also meat substitutes like veggie burgers often look like the real thing but can contain wheat. And if squeeze bottles aren't being used try to be first in line to avoid contamination from knives that have touched bread containing gluten.
Some options include a bowl of mixed berries baked beans corn on the cob or a gluten-free potato salad.
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Serve with tortilla chips The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher.
but like their truffle-sniffing cousins they sometimes turn up treasure. On the trail of the pig-like creatures in Brazil researchers made an unexpected and rare discovery:
and veggies for city dwellers but high levels of toxic metals in soil especially lead could pose health risks for people who grow
Root vegetables and tubers such as carrots potatoes and turnips usually have the highest lead concentrations. Leafy greens such as spinach also have high concentrations according to Langley-Turnbaugh.
Fruit-bearing plants such as tomatoes strawberries and squash tend to contain lower lead concentrations. Few studies have examined the quantity of lead-contaminated produce a person would need to eat in order to raise levels of lead in the blood.
It could be highly variable depending on the initial lead concentration in the soil the type of plant how much a person eats
Contact with the soil itself may pose an even greater concern than eating contaminated vegetables said Mielke.
and chips of old paint may remain in the soil around the foundation of the house.
Behind the World Championship of Pumpkin Hurling It's not unusual to enjoy a plentiful helping of pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving.
But some people gather together each fall to enjoy pumpkins in another way: by flinging them as far as possible.
The contest known as the World Championship Punkin Chunkin event has become a huge draw in Bridgeville Del. bringing thousands of spectators to see who can launch a pumpkin the farthest.
Anybody from around the country can apply to enter the event and build a machine to launch pumpkins.
and a variety of torsion machines that propel pumpkins via the power of twisted cables basically anything that doesn't involved gunpowder said Grant Imahara co-host of a Science Channel special on the event which airs at 8 p m
The giant machines have misfired for example sending pumpkins thousands of feet straight up into the air.
and it splintered all over the place he said of the pumpkin launcher. But the host wasn't injured.
and launched one pumpkin nearly a mile Byron said. Emailâ Douglas Mainâ or follow him onâ Twitterâ orâ Google+.
Fractals are found throughout nature from seashells to mountain ranges to broccoli and apparently the plumage of red-legged partridges. 5 Seriously Mind-boggling Math Facts In a new study scientists found that the healthier a bird is the more fractal-like its plumage becomes.
While certainly a larger number of people get sick yearly from eating tainted tomatoes or lettuce there are many more consumers of those foods than consumers of raw milk he said.
Bacteria commonly found in the digestive tracts of farm animals including campylobacter and E coli O157 can easily find their way into milk as it is pumped
Cooking tomatoes for example increases by fivefold the bioavailability of the antioxidant lycopene. Similarly cooking carrots makes the beta-carotene they contain more available for the body to absorb.
Soups are full of nutrients that would not be available in a pot of raw carrots onions parsnips and potatoes.
Science You Can Eat: 10 Interesting Facts About Food Cooking can also reduce certain chemicals in a vegetable that inhibit the absorption of minerals including important minerals like zinc iron calcium and magnesium.
Cooking spinach makes more iron and calcium available from its leaves for example. Admittedly some nutrients are lost in cooking such as Vitamin c and certain B vitamins.
But plants are so excess in nutrients that even this breakdown is insignificant in practical terms said John Mcdougall creator of the Mcdougall Program a vegan-friendly starch-based diet.
and vegetables creates cancer-causing chemicals. The solution however is not to stop all cooking
or stir fry vegetables and to make more soups. Fermenting or juicing raw foods also can make some nutrients more available
One can just as well say that no other animal combines their kale and clover with tropical bananas in a high-speed blender to make the foods more palatable and digestible.
Most of the reasonable diets that consist of grains vegetables and meats will get you to at least age 70
For instance the caterpillars also consume plants such as tomatoes which contain alkaloids that are not volatile like nicotine is.
Her research indicated that participants who ate a diet of vegetables berries fruit whole-grains fish poultry
and beans and in room-temperature rice and pasta can ferment in the colon to promote the growth of good bacteria
Starches are found in root vegetables tubers winter squashes grains and legumes. Your body starts digesting these starches from the moment you start chewing extracting nutrients and energy.
Fiber is more like the natural packaging for fruits and vegetables such as the skin or the rigid cellular walls of plants.
Whole grains peas and beans have a form of resistant starch that maintains its structure even when hot though.
The beans grow inside of a cacao pod which grows on a cacao tree. The tree needs just the right weather conditions to produce the cacao pods.
Rainfall is another factor that determines how well the trees produce the beans. Ideally the trees should have between 40-80 inches of rainfall per year.
#Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Cucumbers Sickens 73 An outbreak of Salmonella linked to cucumbers imported from Mexico has sickened 73 people in 18 states according to an announcement today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC.
After an initial investigation the source of the outbreak appears to be imported cucumbers from two companies in Culiacã¡
Two-thirds of the 45 patients interviewed by investigators reported eating cucumbers before they became sick.
Currently there's no evidence that the contaminated cucumbers are still being sold in stores the CDC said.
But the agency is blocking cucumber imports from the two Mexico-based companies until they can show that their cucumbers are contaminated not.
Consumers should wash all produce including cucumbers before eating cutting or cooking the CDC said Pass it on:
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vegetables such as fava beans and Swiss chard; and fruits including strawberries and peaches Gibbs said. Kids also spent 90 minutes a week in the kitchen with a cooking specialist making lunches that used the fresh herbs and produce.
and implemented Early Sprouts a gardening and nutrition program in a preschool setting. Kalich said she wasn't surprised that the study only found evidence of an increased willingness on the part of children to taste new foods.
#School Lunchroom Changes Get Kids to Eat More Veggies Simple changes in school lunchrooms such as placing fresh fruit near the cash register may boost the amount of healthy foods children eat a new study suggests.
During the study the researchers slightly altered the lunchrooms of two high schools in New york state to make fruits and vegetables more attractive and accessible.
and 10 percent more likely to eat a whole serving of vegetables. The lunchroom makeover was notably effective
and vegetables even when a wide range of less-nutritious foods was available the researchers wrote in the Feb 22 issue of The Journal of Pediatrics.
Small changes in school lunchrooms may get kids to eat more fruits and vegetables. This story was provided by Myhealthnewsdaily a sister site to Livescience.
Try leafy vegetables like spinach or kale. Take DNA from seeds like raw nuts or peas.
Use about 2 cups of plant material and about half a cup of water and a tablespoon of salt instead of Gatorade.
said a man sampling hydroponic watercress this week during a preview of the new exhibition on food at New York'
For example until 500 years ago no one outside of The americas had tasted ever chili peppers chocolate or tomatoes.
t taste capsaicin the chemical that gives chili peppers their kick enabling birds to eat spicy peppers
The kidneys are shaped two bean organs just below the rib cage that remove waste from the blood stream
what gives green veggies their pigment. So if you re eating a lot of leafy greens you re probably doing okay on magnesium consumption.
 Soybeans. have tried you ever steamed edamame (green soybeans? It can be an addicting snack. Not only is it high in magnesium
but also it has a great deal of protein and fiber. Good stuff! Healthy Bites appears on Myhealthnewsdaily on Wednesdays.
Good sources of protein include meat poultry fish legumes (such as dry beans and peas) eggs milk and tofu according to the CDC.
Traditionally a Mediterranean diet is based a plant diet meaning it's high in fruits vegetables whole grains
and legumes as well as fish and very low in saturated fat and animal fat Tallmadge said. Studies showing its benefits go back to the 1950s Tallmadge explained.
and vegetables you consume every dayand eating a serving of fish once a week. While nuts and seeds are a source of omega-3 fatty acids a type of healthy fat it's not clear how much of this healthy fat we actually get by eating them Mangieri said.
When there are three pies on the holiday table pumpkin apple and pecan. Won't you have a slice of each?
 A large food volume caused by water incorporated into the food as in vegetables fruits
versus say a vegetable. There's an automatic acceptance even joy after eating something sweet. On the other hand vegetables are acquired an taste
which may take 10 to 20 tries before acceptance. Why? Â This is partly explained by evolution.
Bees buzz at just the right frequency to release pollen from tomatoes and other flowering plants.
Chili seedlings quicken their growth when a nasty sweet fennel plant is nearby sealed off from the chilies in a box that only transmits sound not scent another study from the group revealed.
 The fennel releases chemicals that slow other plants'growth so the researchers think the chili plants grow faster in anticipation of the chemicals
but only because they hear the plant not because they smell it. Both the fennel and chilies were also in a sound-isolated box.
We have identified that plants respond to sound and they make their own sounds Gagliano said.
Examples of Southern-style foods included fried chicken fried fish fried potatoes bacon ham liver and gizzards and sugar-sweetened beverages such as sweet tea.
By contrast people in the study who ate a diet high in fruits vegetables legumes
Taken to an extreme a wine from the Left bank of Bordeaux may move away from the classic aromas of cedar cigar box blackcurrants and green pepper and more toward the full rich spicy-peppery profile of a Chã¢teauneuf-du-Pape
and includes input from researchers from The netherlands Germany Chile China Ireland and the United states. The researchers hope to use ALMA to examine other star systems for the same phenomenon.
#Sugar Mist Makes Veggies More Palatable to Kids BOSTON A light mist of sugar could help the broccoli
(and other veggies) go down according to new research that tested ways to make vegetables more palatable for children.
In preliminary studies preschoolers who were served lightly sweetened vegetables (sprayed with a mist of sugar) at lunchtime ate more of the healthy foods compared to those who were served unsweetened vegetables.
Although the researchers tested other ways to mask the vegetables'bitterness including various salts plain sugar worked the best.
Adding such a small amount of sugar means the vegetables do not taste markedly sweet said study researcher Valerie Duffy a professor at the University of Connecticut's Department of Nutritional Sciences.
Genetics make some people more sensitive to the bitter flavor found in vegetables such as asparagus broccoli and Brussels sprouts.
She stressed that the sweetened vegetables aren't meant to be served throughout a child's life.
Rather serving the sugar-enhanced veggies a few times should be enough to get children accustomed to eating them.
 Once that happens it's no longer necessary to spritz the veggies. Sweetened vegetables don't have many extra calories either.
The researchers added about a half a teaspoon of sugar which has a mere 8 calories to three-fourths of a cup of vegetables.
Duffy discussed her work this week at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston.
Another recent study found that kids prefer veggies when they are cooked for 6 to 8 minutes
if kids initially turn their noses up at the sight of plain vegetables the U s. Department of agriculture says.
Lightly sweetening vegetables may help in teaching children to like them. This story was provided by Myhealthnewsdaily a sister site to Livescience.
and veggies can also make the Thanksgiving menu a crowd-pleaser Cassie said. Thanksgiving: 10 Tips for Sticking to Healthy Portions Simple meals Those who follow the Paleo diet typically shun grains sugars dairy
Those foods usually include fish wild game and poultry as well as fruits vegetables and eggs. Some on the diet also eat nuts.
For those folks simple staples such as green-bean casserole or mashed cauliflower work well. The green beans can be made with a healthy serving of coconut oil and homemade mushroom soup.
Turkey is an easy staple that Paleo dieters can enjoy while getting adequate protein and fat Cassie told Livescience.
For instance sweet-potato casserole can be made without the marshmallows and cream. Carb-conscious Many people (including people on the Paleo diet) now follow a gluten-free diet avoiding any foods that contain the protein gluten.
For dessert make a coconut-milk pumpkin custard instead of a pie she said. And for those who eat nuts one option is to make the crust out of nuts Franziska Spritzler a registered dietitian
Green beans salad and other low-carb vegetables are important to consume because they provide fiber
but they too can enjoy green beans sweet potatoes cranberry sauce and other side dishes. The main thing is just keeping your side dishes free of any type of meat Cassie said.
and vegetables anyway so it's a good idea to ask if they'd be interested in low-carb versions of their favorites before preparing them Spritzler said.
and recipes from early Thanksgivings provided to Livescience by food writer Cynthia Bertelsen who blogs at Gherkins & Tomatoes.
 Tourte of pumpkin- Boile it with good milk pass it through a straining pan very thick
Roast Chicken stuffed with Chopped Celery and Oysters Baked Sweet potatoes Boiled Onions  Salad (Fine chopped apples and nuts in red apple cups) Cream Dressing  Mince or Squash pie a la mode
Sweet cider Coffee  II A Simple Company Dinner of Six Courses  Celery Clam Bouillon Saltines Ripe olives  Roast Chestnut-Stuffed Turkey
Giblet Sauce Buttered Asparagus Glazed Sweet potatoes Moulded Cranberry Jelly  Chicken salad in Salad Rolls  Thanksgiving Pudding Hard sauce  Chocolate ice cream Strawberry Sauce Â
Assorted Fruit Coffee  III A Formal Company Dinner. Eight Courses Curled Celery Oyster Soup Bread Sticks Radish Rosettes  Turbans of Flounder Hollandaise Sauce Potato Straws Olives Crusty Rolls
Salted Nuts  Capon a la Creme (Stuffing of Potatoes Mushrooms Chestnuts etc. Mashed Potatoes Green pea Timbales Cranberry sauce  Sweet cider Frappe  Venison Steaks Currant jelly Sauce Baked Parsnips  Apple
-and-Grape Salad  Macaroon Pudding Frozen Mince pie Hot chocolate Sauce  Glaceed Walnuts Fruit Black Coffee  IV Elaborate Formal Dinner.
Ten Courses Fruit cocktail Oysters on Half-shell Brown bread-and-Butter Sandwiches Quartered Lemons  Clear Bouillon Oysterettes Radishes Celery  Boiled Halibut Potato
Balls in Parsley Sauce Sweet pickles  Cauliflower au Gratin  Braised Turkey or Capon Bread Stuffing Giblet Gravy Duchesse Potatoes Spinach Â
Crystallized ginger Salted Pecans Pineapple Fritters Lemon Sauce  Granite of Cider and Apples  Cutlets of Duck with Chopped Celery  Orange Salad Â
Pumpkin pie Raisin and Cranberry Tarts Chocolate Parfait Almond Cakes  Nuts Raisins Bonbons Candied Orange peel Black Coffee  Thanksgiving menu from Fannie
Oyster Soup Crisp Crackers Celery Salted Almonds Roast Turkey Cranberry Jelly Mashed Potatoes Onions in Cream Squash Chicken Pie Fruit Pudding Sterling
and the bottom number tells us how far along the row to Go for instance say we have 5 pieces of fruit and vegetables:
an Apple a Banana a Carrot a Durian and an Eggplant. We d like to pick 2 of them to use in our cooking.
#The Broccoli Problem: Why Some People Taste Things More Bitter It has been a mystery why some people love some vegetables like broccoli
while others find it to be bitter even though most people have the same genes for bitter taste receptors.
not only people's genetic makeup that determines people's reaction to broccoli's bitter taste
The 7 (Other) Flavors Humans May Taste In the study 18 people with the same bitter taste genes rated the bitterness level of several beverages including broccoli juice and carrot juice.
The results showed a direct relationship between how much mrna people's cells made and their bitterness ratings of broccoli juice.
It might be that people with low expression of bitter receptor genes who find vegetables to taste less bitter are more likely to include them in their diet than people with high expression of these genes the researchers said.
Conversely it is possible that eating bitter vegetables may change gene expression over time the researchers said.
These included greenstone beads cacao beans and copper bells. oeultimately the power of kings depended on their ability to control resources Sharer wrote. oemaya rulers managed the production
by the time innovator Sir Henry Cole had a clever idea to speed up his own seasonal card-writing process.
Taking advantage of new printing technologies Cole commissioned artist John Callcott Horsley to create a festive design
After Cole used the cards he needed he sold the rest for one shilling each according to the Winterthur Library in Delaware
See Images of Early Christmas cards  Cole later became instrumental in putting together the 1851â Great Exhibitionâ inâ London'sâ Hyde park and developing the South Kensington Museumâ (now the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The british auction house Henry Aldridge and Son actually sold one of the rare uncolored copies of Cole's card this past Saturday (Dec 14) to a collector for £4200 ($6844 at the time of the sale.
and celery paste and even tiny spaceships made of deep fried scallops. Novelty food suppliers have become early adopters of similar technology.
The netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific research (TNO) announced they ll build printers to reassemble pureed food to look like the original think 3d printed broccoli florets from pureed broccoli.
for example by giving eaters the same salty sensation they get from processed foods but with reduced salt. 9 Snack foods:
The other food groups fruits and vegetables have minimal salt. The good news is that baby foods were relatively low in sodium.
To lower salt intake the CDC recommends children eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables.
#Tomatoes, Summer's Last Sigh (Op-Ed) Katherine Tallmadge M. A r. D. is registered a dietitian author of Diet Simple:
There is still plenty of summer's most lovely seasonal produce particularly heirloom tomatoes my favorite to entertain with.
and beautifully interpreted Greek salad with heirloom tomatoes (see recipe below) and other recipes from my book Diet Simple.
Every vegetable in the recipe the tomatoes cucumbers peppers sweet onions and garlic can be found at local farmers markets.
or seafood on the side Tomatoes are one of the superfoods in nature. In a recent study men who consumed 10
or more servings of tomato products a week had a 35-percent decrease in risk of prostate cancer relative to those who consumed 1. 5 servings or fewer per week.
That outcome is attributed largely to lycopene in the tomatoes which is also in other red fruits such as watermelon pink grapefruit and guava.
You must eat the tomato as you need the whole food to receive the benefits!
The American Institute for Cancer Research recommends that men take advantage of lycopene's cancer-preventing effects and fill tehir diets with foods such as tomatoes watermelon and guava.
Greek Salad with Heirloom Tomatoes as interpreted by Four Seasons Hotel Executive Chef Douglas Anderson Greek Salad with Heirloom Tomatoes From Diet Simple Farm to Table Recipes:
or Basil (or 1 tsp dried) 1 Clove Garlic Minced (optional) Salt and Pepper to Taste (Salt is not necessary with the cheese and olives) Vegetables:
2 cucumbers peeled seeded and sliced into a half-moon shape 1 onion peeled and chopped coarsely 1 medium yellow purple
or green bell pepper cored seeded chopped into large bite-size pieces 1 cup pitted Kalamata
or other Greek Olives 4 Heirloom Tomatoes quartered and cut into large bite-size pieces 4 ounces Feta
or Goat cheese broken into small bits Instructions: Combine the vinaigrette ingredients in a large salad bowl and whisk until blended.
Add the cucumbers onion pepper and olives and toss into vinaigrette. Let sit for twenty minutes to marinate.
Add the heirloom tomatoes and cheese when ready to serve. Tallmadge's most recent Op-Ed was
12496 visits (12 percent) Fruits and vegetables: 10075 visits (9. 7 percent) Formula milk or breast milk:
6771 visits (6. 5 percent) Chips pretzels or popcorn: 4826 visits (4. 6 percent) Biscuits cookies or crackers:
2385 visits (2. 3 percent) French fries: 874 visits (0. 8 percent) The majority of children who came to the emergency room
and vegetables) or those that are consumed by the handful (such as seeds and nuts) which may be too much for a child to chew the researchers said.
or gum and that raw fruits and vegetables be cut into small pieces when they are fed to young children.
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