and salsa was just a dance. But as America braces for an onslaught of Super bowl snacks these words have a whole new relevance.
and Hispanic-style foods are expected to be an $11 billion market by 2017. In fact much of America's recent history can be told by the current favorites in a Super bowl snack spread.
Much of this increase has been attributed to the growing acceptance of Mexican cuisine in North american kitchens.
When you think about pizza and spaghetti it's the same thing Jim Kabbani CEO of the Tortilla Industry Association told the AP speaking of another ethnic food that's been embraced wholeheartedly by Americans.
People consider them American not ethnic. The avocado Persea americana is a native of Central america but over the years its popularity has spread
and are often gluten-free they may be fried in oils that are saturated high in and/or trans fats and many brands of chips are high in sodium.
Some health experts recommend baking your own tortilla chips from 100 percent corn tortillas and adding only as much salt as you prefer.
It bears mentioning that many potato chips are flavored now with Hispanic-style ingredients such as jalapeno peppers or nacho cheese.
what's now called dip though people had been dunking bread and crackers into soups and sauces for centuries.
A 1947 edition of the Fannie Farmer cookbook included a recipe for mayonnaise preparations flavored with mustard
or Worcestershire sauce that were made for dipping asparagus tips or cauliflower florets. By the 1950s the Lipton Company was searching for new ways to market its line of dried instant soups.
By mixing the soups with sour cream the company launched a whole new era in eating creating a mix intended for no other purpose than to dip celery carrots or chips.
According to Fox news 32 percent of Americans plan to scoop up some kind of creamy dip during the Super bowl.
Salsa: Tomato-based salsa the most popular type of salsa sold in the United states overtook ketchup in sales in 1991 according to The New york times. Food historians cheered the dethroning of ketchup as the condiment king
since salsa's spicy blend of tomatoes peppers onion garlic and other flavors heralded the dawn of more sophisticated cosmopolitan taste buds.
Sophisticated or not market research indicates that salsa sales now beat ketchup sales two-to-one the AP reports
and health concerns are part of the reason: When it comes to health the Mexican cuisines cater better to that with salsas
and vegetables Alexandra Aguirre Rodriguez an assistant professor of marketing at Florida International University told the AP. Follow Marc Lallanilla on Twitter and Google+.
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As climate change stresses ecosystems already rare plant species could sadly go extinct. One solution is to collect plant
How fascinating it is to learn how these mostly stationary organisms obtain nutrients grow toward light find a mate produce
His way of teaching botany history cuisine and evolutionary relationships is exciting and I hope that my own writing
I learned a lot about a food-oriented life while living in France and Italy and now
I find great joy in cooking for others or teaching them the techniques I've learned.
Researchers analyzed information from more than 65000 people in England ages 35 and older who answered questions about their eating habits.
and Vegetables Eating fewer than seven servings was also beneficial although the protective effect was not as strong:
Whatever your starting point it is always worth eating more fruit and vegetables. Vegetables trump fruit?
The high levels of sugar found in canned fruit may outweigh the benefits of the fruit Oyebode said.
and vegetable consumption particularly vegetables and salad the researchers wrote today (March 31) in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
#How Do Peanuts Grow? Peanuts do not grow on trees. Despite their name and appearance peanuts are not tree nuts like walnuts
and pecans they're part of the legume family of plants which includes beans lentils peas and other familiar foods.
When planted peanut seeds (kernels) grow into small 18-inch plants with oval-shaped leaves. The peanut plant appears unremarkable at first glance
but unlike most other plants its flowers bloom above ground while its fruits (peanuts) develop below ground.
To start the small yellow flowers grow around the lower portion of the plant and only last for about a day.
After self-pollination the flowers lose their petals as the fertilized ovaries in the center of the flowers begin to enlarge.
The plant's pedicels stalks connecting to the ovaries curve downward pointing the budding ovaries toward the ground.
The pegs with the new peanut embryos at their tips extend into the ground. Now embedded in the ground the pegs turn horizontal (parallel to the soil surface) and mature.
and nutrients and swells to form a single wrinkled shell that contains two to four peanuts.
Over its lifetime the peanut plant will produce about 40 peanut pods before dying. Follow Joseph Castro on Twitter.
Additionally the plant's suckers (side shoots that grow in between the leaves of the main stem)
After receiving adequate nutrition their hormone-producing glands rebounded far quicker than their livers (which normally metabolize hormones) resulting in hormonal spikes that caused lactation.
Similarly a condition called liver cirrhosis can cause lactation by disrupting the organ's normal hormone-metabolizing function.
Health Benefits, Risks & Nutrition Facts Soft and creamy enough to be put in pies and called dessert sweet potatoes are also a surprisingly nutritious vegetable.
The orange-fleshed tubers are especially high in Vitamin a (also called beta-carotene which is the carotenoid that turns into Vitamin a) vitamins C E and B6 fiber and manganese.
although they do have more sugar. Sweet potatoes are one of the best Vitamin a sources out there containing more than 100 percent of the daily recommended intake.
Here are the nutrition facts for sweet potatoes according to the U s. Food and Drug Administration which regulates food labeling through the National Labeling and Education Act:
Nutrition Facts Serving size: 1 medium (4. 6 oz/130 g) Calories 100 Calories from Fat 0*Percent Daily Values(%DV) are based on a 2000 calorie diet.
So it s clear that while sweet potato pie might be soul food sweet potatoes themselves are a whole-body vegetable.
Heart health Sweet potatoes are a great source of B6 vitamins which are brilliant at breaking down homocysteine a substance that contributes to the hardening of blood vessels and arteries.
) Unlike processed sugars sweet potatoes natural sugar is released slowly into your bloodstream. This means you won t get blood sugar spikes
and prepared in a healthy way (that means not just indulging in sweet potato fries) sweet potatoes are a nutritious delicious food that should pose no significant health risks.
People with a history of kidney stones may want to avoid eating too many sweet potatoes as the vegetable contains oxalate
Given that sweet potatoes are in general very nutritious you don t need to cut them out of your diet
Sweet potatoes and yams are both healthy foods and they look similar. Sweet potatoes however have higher concentrations of most nutrients and more fiber.
Sweet potatoes are compared roots to regular potatoes which are tubers (underground stems). Sweet potatoes are native to Central
or spotting caused by the egg burrowing into the uterine lining. An absence of spotting is not a cause for concern as most women do not spot during the first few weeks of pregnancy.
You may start craving certain foods and foods that you previously enjoyed will start to taste different.
At four weeks the blastocyst a tiny group of embryonic cells would have made already the journey from your fallopian tube into your uterus and implanted along the lining.
The hcg alerts your ovaries to stop releasing eggs and increases the production of estrogen and progesterone.
The placenta made up of two layers provides nutrients and oxygen to the embryo that will begin functioning at the end of the week.
which produce the red blood cells and deliver nutrients until the placenta has developed fully. The embryo now about 2 millimeters (0. 079 inches) long according to the American Pregnancy Association has three layers:
Arm and leg buds may begin developing at this point but at that small size they are not yet distinguishable.
At this point and throughout the pregnancy you should avoid alcohol caffeine recreational drugs and smoking.
Certain medications and foods should also be avoided consult with your health care provider to make sure none of your medications are harmful to the fetus.
This is when you should start developing good eating habits. To help the fetus grow What to Expect a pregnancy advice website suggests eating three servings of lean protein on a daily basis. This will help tissue develop.
This could be lean beef chicken legumes or tofu. Lean red meat will also help with your iron intake
which you need to support the increased blood volume. Add some foods rich in Vitamin c like oranges and berries to help with iron absorption.
Folic acid is very important at this stage as is calcium. Babycenter. com recommends getting 600 micrograms of folic acid a day.
talk to your health care provider about adding them to your diet. Leafy greens like spinach deliver both of these nutrients
which help to promote bone development and avoid birth defects. Citrus foods are also naturally high in folate so a calcium-enriched orange juice is a great addition to any breakfast.
The American Pregnancy Association recommends talking to your health care provider before beginning or continuing an exercise routine
when the ovary is releasing an egg. Some women will experience an increase in vaginal discharge
or spotting caused by the egg burrowing into the uterine lining. An absence of spotting is not a cause for concern as the majority of women do not spot during the first few weeks of pregnancy.
You may start craving certain foods while foods that you previously enjoyed will start to taste differently.
In weeks 1 and 2 of pregnancy the fertilized egg moves into the uterus and becomes a blastocyte or blastocyst a very tiny group of cells the size of the head of a pin.
The part that develops into the placenta begins to produce human chorionic gonadotropin (hcg) a pregnancy hormone.
The hcg alerts your ovaries to stop releasing eggs and increases production of estrogen and progesterone.
The blastocyst receives all vital nutrients through blood vessels though the placenta will eventually take over this task.
At this point and throughout the pregnancy you should avoid alcohol caffeine recreational drugs and smoking.
You should also avoid certain medications and foods; consult with your health care provider to make sure none of your medications are harmful to the fetus.
This is when you should start developing good eating habits. To help the fetus grow What to Expect a pregnancy advice website suggests eating three servings of lean protein on a daily basis. This will help with tissue development.
This could be lean beef chicken legumes or tofu. Lean red meat will also help with your iron intake
which you need to support the increased blood volume. Add some foods rich in Vitamin c like oranges and berries to help with iron absorption.
Folic acid is also very important at this stage as is calcium. Leafy greens like spinach deliver both of these nutrients
which help with bone development and avoiding birth defects. Citrus foods are also naturally high in folate so a calcium-enriched orange juice is a great addition to any breakfast.
Talk to your health care provider about adding a prenatal vitamin to your diet. The American Pregnancy Association recommends talking to your health care provider before beginning
or continuing an exercise routine but exercise is very important at this stage. Focus on cardiovascular health to keep your heart healthy
The outbreak began with Ebola cases that surfaced in Guinea and subsequently spread to the neighboring countries of Liberia and Sierra leone.
being unprepared to contain an infectious disease may even turn the health care setting into a hub for further spread of the disease he said.
Some of the ram's relatives are goats bison buffalo antelopes and cattle according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS.
They can live on desert mountains as high as 4000 feet (1200 m). They get most of their water from eating plants to survive according to the Natural history Museum of Los angeles. Rams are herbivores.
One swallow of food isn't enough for these animals. They will regurgitate their food into their mouths.
This regurgitated food is called cud. Then they will rechew the food and swallow it once again.
This is part of their digestion process. Rams are social but herds are separated by gender. Male-only bachelor herds usually contain five to 50 rams at one time.
The females live in nursery herds with five to 100 members which include adult females and lambs of both genders.
Rams fight to decide who will be the dominant male in their group. During the fight the males will face each other rear up on their back legs and crash their huge horns into each other.
They usually have only one lamb at a time. In the spring the young are born on high ledges that protect them from predators.
Lambs are dependent on their mothers for the first four to six months of their lives though they can walk almost as soon as they are born.
#Buffalo Facts Water buffalo & Cape buffalo Buffalo are large members of the Bovidae family. There are two types of buffalo:
the African or Cape buffalo and the Asian water buffalo. They are dark gray or black animals that look a lot like bulls.
Buffalo are confused often with bison. Early American settlers called bison buffalo because the animals are similar in appearance.
However while bison are also bovines (a subfamily of bovids) they are in a different genus from true buffalo.
Other bovines include domestic cattle oxen yaks four-horned antelopes bongos and kudus according to the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS.
It is 8 to 9 feet (2. 4 to 2. 7 meters) from head to rump with its tail adding an extra 2 to 3. 3 feet (60 to 100 centimeters.
The African buffalo is smaller but they are still quite impressive in size. They are 4. 26 to 4. 92 feet long (130 to 150 cm) from head to hoof
The African buffalo is never far from water. They can live in grasslands savannas swamps lowland floodplains mixed forest
Buffalo are social animals and live in groups called herds. Water buffalo herds are segregated by gender.
Young males stay with the maternal herd for about three years and then they join a male herd.
African buffalo herds are mixed mostly of gender. They do have a few all-male herds but these usually consist of old males.
Buffalo are herbivores and so eat only vegetation. Their favorite foods are grass and herbs but water buffalo will also eat aquatic plants.
Both African and Asian buffalo will eat shrubs and trees when they can't find grass
or herbs to eat. Buffalo like most mammals bear live young which are called calves. Usually they have one calf at a time
and the female will carry the calf for a gestation period of 9 to 11 months before giving birth.
Once the calf is born a water buffalo will stay with its mother for around three years.
Then male calves will be moved to the all-male herd while the female calves stay with the female herd.
while African buffalo live around 26 years. The taxonomy of buffalo according to ITIS is: Water buffalo were domesticated more than 5000 years ago.
Humans use the meat milk horns and leather. Buffalo are used also for transportation and to pull plows.
Wild water buffalo are endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. They have a population of less than 4000 though it is uncertain
what the exact numbers are. The African buffalo is endangered not and has a population of 900000 according to the African Wildlife Foundation.
Male water buffalo have horns that curve backward. These horns can grow to 5 feet (1. 5 meters) long.
African buffalo have a democracy. When they are ready to travel they will stand and turn in the direction they want to go.
African buffalo are very aggressive and have a tendency to attack humans. They are very protective of each other
Nature Newsa plague of crop-eating caterpillars has struck Liberia and a second wave could spread across West Africa in the next few weeks,
From October to December one of the rainy seasons the moths lay their eggs on grasses and crops in Kenya and Tanzania.
march in groups, devouring any food sources they come across. They subsequently pupate to form moths, each
000 kilometres and lay 1, 000 eggs in its 10-day lifetime. Armyworms have attacked, with varying intensity,
But there seems to be little threat to human health from the current form of the virus. It is destroyed by cooking,
The virus is likely to be spread by bat droppings falling into the pigs'feed,
The others become hamburger. Previously, DNA tests allowed a typical breeder to select the best bull some 35%of the time,
biodiversity chair of the Heinz Center in WASHINGTON DC, who was associated not with the study. The symposium, hosted by the Smithsonian Institution,
with a steady watering down of the rules in response to claims that they will lower crop yields and raise food prices.
The new rules introduce criteria that the European Food safety Authority (EFSA), which is accountable to the European commission,
triggering big rises in food prices. Sean Rickard, a senior lecturer at the Cranfield School of management, Bedfordshire, England
Some have suggested that we import more sugar-based ethanol from Brazil and we should indeed consider all sources of available ethanol â Â
compared with 2, 000-3, 000 renminbi for rice or tea. Unless the market takes into account the value of ecosystem services lost owing to the cultivation of rubber and other crops,
Temperature rises threaten global food security: Nature Newsrising temperatures during crop-growing seasons will pose a serious threat to food security by 2090, scientists report.
David Battisti from the University of Washington in Seattle and Rosamond Naylor from Stanford university in California analysed data from 23 global climate models produced for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 scientific
and the Sahel region of Africa to illustrate the scale of the impact on food production.
Naylor says that investment will be key to avoiding significant food shortages. Developing crops that are tolerant to heat and drought,
The conventional strategy of coping with food deficiencies in one part of the world by producing surpluses in other areas will be impossible,
In the future, the world may not be able to rely on temperate regions for food supplies as even mid-latitude crops will suffer at very high temperatures
Claudia Ringler, an agricultural economist at the International Food Policy Research Institute in WASHINGTON DC, welcomes the study.
to ensure they have drinking water. In the flood plains, people are raising their homes on stilts or earthen platforms.
they can still harvest food. What kind of research will the centre carry out? The idea is to set up 12-20 field sites for community-based adaptation to Bangladesh in
300 million people are faced with drinking-water shortages and 15.3 million hectares of farmland-13%of the country's total-are stricken by drought every year.
The European Food safety Authority (EFSA) in Parma, Italy, which is responsible for scientific risk assessments on GM CROPS in Europe,
After a risk-analysis report by The french food safety committee giving MON810 a clean bill of health was leaked to the press last week--it had previously been suppressed--prime minister Francois Fillon rushed to Brussels to insist that France would maintain its ban whatever
As demand for food and energy rises, such questions are more pressing than ever, he adds.
thousands of homeless families in search of shelter and food are flooding Red cross relief centres set up around the state.
the fires have been particularly quick to spread through suburban areas that back onto bushland. As the populations of cities such as Melbourne grow,
and can provide nutrients for fresh plant growth, for example. Most trees and tall vegetation can survive normal bushfires,
Nature Newsthe creation of human-animal hybrid embryos proposed as a way to generate embryonic stem cells without relying on scarce human eggs has met with legislative hurdles and public outcry.
human-mouse and human-rabbit hybrid embryos fail to grow beyond 16 cells (Y. Chung et al.
cow, mouse and rabbit eggs with nuclei from human non-sex, or somatic cells. Human-human embryos developed normally
using eggs from the common cow to create hybrid gaur-cow embryos. However, these two species are related closely.
It may be possible to create hybrid embryos using human somatic cells and eggs from nonhuman primates,
but primate eggs are also in short supply, says Lanza. Although Hui Zhen Sheng from the Shanghai Second Medical University in China and her colleagues have reported creating human-rabbit embryos (Y. Chen et al.
Cell Res. 13,251-263; 2003), several labs have been unable to replicate the findings, according to Lanza and others in the field.
and RNA found in the egg, with control eventually passing to DNA in the nucleus. This transfer of power occurs in humans
through the egg from distantly related species. If researchers can find the reason why some hybrid embryos stop developing,
Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization issues vaccination advice to THE WHO, including use of a single dose of vaccine in adults and adolescents and use of any licensed vaccine for pregnant women.
South africa confirms its first case of swine flu-offically marking the disease's spread into Sub-saharan africa.
with restaurants and cafes set to reopen. The latest 0505/en/index. html>WHO figures say the virus has now spread to 21 countries.
Despite intense opposition from the US corn (maize) ethanol industry, the rule takes into account agricultural expansion abroad caused by rising grain prices as food crops are diverted for biofuels.
is because California assumes that half of the food crops that are redirected towards energy will not be replaced because of rising prices,
and improving nutrition, we have to have a much stronger research base. How much money has been allocated for the research strategy
Those bacteria are needed to break down grass and other delicacies in her fibrous diet but could also pose an infection risk.
Despite this diversity, years of breeding cattle for meat and milk have weakened the herds, says Cunningham,
and quantity of the food they produce by allowing them to track markers linked with, for example, longevity or milk production,
says Chris Cocklin, a sustainability policy expert at James Cook University in Townsville. Every year we wait
We would be foolish to put all of our eggs in either basket.
Sodium traces hint at subsurface ocean on Enceladus: Nature Newsthe water plumes erupting from the south pole of Saturn's moon Enceladus could be caused by a liquid ocean lurking many kilometres underground rather than by geysers erupting from a salty ocean just beneath the moon
along with salt-poor ice grains that are formed like snowflakes from pure water vapour. Salt-rich grains are frozen directly ocean water dragged up by strong vapour flow
As tectonic plates in the crust move and collide, the crust fractures and these clathrates release gases,
These ice particles could carry up salt as well says Susan Kieffer a geologist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Averting a climate-led food crisis in Africa: Nature Newsmost African farmers will be able to find heat-resistant crop varieties within their own borders or in other countries on the continent,
one of the study's authors and a senior science coordinator at the Global Crop Diversity Trust a foundation based in Rome that aims to improve food security says that the results will allow researchers
says Marshall Burke, a food security researcher at Stanford university in Palo alto, California, and another of the study's authors.
Instead, they may have to switch to sorghum and millet, which are more tolerant to heat.
Gerald Nelson, an agricultural economist at the International Food Policy Research Institute an independent research organization in WASHINGTON DC says the study shows there are some fairly easy ways to start the process of adapting to climate change.
or trade bans on pigs and pork. Within minutes of the World health organization (WHO) announcement on 11 june that swine flu had become a pandemic, Bernard Vallat, director-general of an intergovernmental trade body,
So far the role of animals has not been demonstrated in the virus's epidemiology or spread,
mark the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture by the Food and Agricultural organization of the United nations. The treaty is known best for its role in paving the way for construction of the Svalbard Global
and those that have ratified it are legally bound to pass on genetic information about the world's 64 most important food crops,
and conservation is a major concern for the world's future food security. He will seek agreement from the treaty's governing board at this week's meeting to launch a campaign that aims to raise US$116 million over the next five years.
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