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Today, it's all about making the most of your passion for fruit - that and the fact that the fast-approaching summer is a perfect excuse to treat ourselves to delicious, easy-to-make dishes and desserts that use fruit as their basic ingredient. We'll first have a look at an easy-to-make appetizer (that can ... |
14 May 2008
04:25 GMT |
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1. Hornbills are famous for their huge bills, flattened and curved, with toothed edges and bony helmets over the upper jaw. These large birds have a common origin with the hoopoes. Today, hornbills inhabit only tropical Africa and Asia, but the oldest known species, the Geiseloceros robustus, lived in Saxony (norther... |
8 May 2008
10:00 GMT |
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We can't even begin to imagine life today without pizza or ketchup. However, the fact of the matter remains that these food items are recent culinary acquisitions of the European cuisine. A history of tomato cultivationWild tomatoes originate from the Andes Mountains. Ancient Indians ate them, but they did not c... |
7 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Most plants are loaded with compounds generically called secondary metabolites that act as a defense method for them in that they are toxic for animals. Caffeine is such an example. Many plants we eat may be loaded with toxins, except for the parts we actually consume, like is the case of the potato or tomato. Nevert... |
24 April 2008
03:28 GMT |
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The common fig (Ficus carica) is one of the oldest trees cultivated by humans and mentioned even in the Bible. It is a rather small tree, up to 10 m (33 ft) tall and ramified from its base. The crown is large and with relatively few branches. The green hairy buds contain milky and sticky latex. The leaves are large, ... |
23 April 2008
10:31 GMT |
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You may have heard about breadfruit trees. This is the sausage tree, to complete the hot dog. When thinking about the trees of the African savanna, baobabs, acacias and eventually mopane trees come into your mind. But one of the most original trees of the African savanna is the Sausage Tree (Kigelia africana), a tree... |
25 March 2008
10:25 GMT |
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What's the connection between the red leaves of the fall and human obesity? Anthocyanins are red/purple/reddish pigments encountered in grape skins, blueberries, blackberries, purple corn, and other plant matters, but they give the reddened colors of the autumn leaves as well. Now, a team from Arkansas, led by R... |
12 February 2008
05:46 GMT |
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1. Despite the name of banana tree, Musa paradisiaca is a 7-8 m (23-27 ft) tall and robust grass, with a tree-like aspect. It has a false trunk made of the well developed sheaths of the leaves wrapping each other (the proper stem is very short). Upper leaves are very large, over 2 m (6.6 ft) in length and 40 cm (1.3 ... |
26 January 2008
04:02 GMT |
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Living like Brad Pitt will prolong your life by 14 years! Exercising, not drinking too much, eating your fruit and vegetables and not smoking can have this impact on you, as found by a research made by the University of Cambridge and the Medical Research Council of Norfolk (UK) between 1993 and 2006 and published in ... |
8 January 2008
04:15 GMT |
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1.Have you ever wondered which is the largest fruit in the wild? It grows in the Seychelles Archipelago (in the Indian Ocean) and is produced by a 34 m (113 ft) tall palm tree called sea coconut tree (Lodoicea maldivica), encountered only on two islets: Praslin and Curieuse. The nut has a diameter of 50 cm (1.6 ft) a... |
17 December 2007
14:07 GMT |
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The taiga or northern coniferous forest harbors about 50 plants producing berries, most of them edible. These fruits are vividly colored, have a strong aroma and are rich in vitamins and minerals. They also contain fibers that help stabilize the blood's sugar level and lower the cholesterol level. Their flavone ... |
7 December 2007
12:31 GMT |
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Could you imagine life without pizza or ketchup? If the answer is no, then you should learn some things about the tomatoes. Wild tomatoes originate from the Andes Mountains. Ancient Indians ate them, but did not cultivate them. But when the tomatoes had reached Mexico, the Aztecs were very pleased of it and called it... |
30 November 2007
14:06 GMT |
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Columbus and his crew were the first Europeans to taste the pineapple in the Caribbean in 1493. The king of Spain liked its taste very much and the fruit was spread worldwide; by 1548 it was already cultivated in the Philippines. By the 18th century, pineapple was considered a luxury fruit on the European royal table... |
23 November 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Despite the fact that everybody believes it's easier to lose weight if you avoid eating meat and fish, because of the satiating power of the animal proteins, it is sure that ovo-lacto-vegetarian slimming can be as much or more effective than carnivorous diet. This diet allows the consume of a great variety and q... |
16 November 2007
15:51 GMT |
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There are pumpkins that could make a nice Halloween 'lamp' for an elephant. By selection, patience and a little bit of luck and the passion of the cultivators of the variety of Atlantic Giant pumpkins have obtained squashes weighing up to 760 kg (1,689-pound). But remember: these are man-selected plants, wh... |
12 November 2007
15:36 GMT |
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These are the New World's native wild boars: the peccaries. And till now, the largest pig-like species have stood hidden from scientists in the southeastern Amazon region of Brazil. It is the largest peccary in the world, about the size of a large dog.The new species, the forest giant peccary (Pecari maximus) wa... |
5 November 2007
03:56 GMT |
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Pheromones have proven tricky in some cases. They allowed farmers to grow ecological apples and pears for decades. The farmers have to place in their orchards hundreds of plastic dispensers spreading a sex pheromone, which attracts and disrupts codling moth mating. A new research made at the Agricultural Research Ser... |
22 October 2007
06:14 GMT |
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Plants can be compared to nice human bodies: their colors reflect the plant's health. A plant's main pigments are of two types: caretonoids, the 'precursors' of the vitamin A that give yellow-orange-red hues and anthocyanins that create blue-red hues. A new research has made a crucial advance in ... |
3 October 2007
05:41 GMT |
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Can you imagine life today without the lemon and orange juice? Europeans and Arabs brought the citrus fruits during the Middle Age from the Far East and India, that's why it was believed for a long time that South/Southeastern Asia is the place of origin for these fruits. But a new research made at the Center fo... |
2 October 2007
07:05 GMT |
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They say 'love goes through the stomach' …or through a shopping spree, for that matter, 'enjoying' the man's 'loaded' credit card... But since chimps don't go shopping, the only available sector remains…the food. A study made on wild chimps in the West African village of Bossou... |
14 September 2007
03:46 GMT |
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The dream of many producers is to obtain naturally long lasting fruits. Until that dream becomes reality, they will fill the fruits with all kinds of additives to look healthy and fresh, even if they stay on the shelf for months. But what makes apples (and other fruits) go brown when cut or bruised? From that very mo... |
6 August 2007
07:16 GMT |
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We all have heard from infancy that citrus fruits are the "fountain of health", a rich source of vitamin C and antioxidants. But, oops, American scientists have found that daily intake of grapefruit increases the risk of developing breast cancer by about 30 %! Breast cancer is the most common form of female cancer, a... |
16 July 2007
14:31 GMT |
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Linden trees produce one of the most suave and persistent scent that a tree can produce but one of its relatives is the skunk of the fruits' world: the durian fruit, the product of the trees of the genus Durio. In Southeast Asia is named the "King of Fruits," even if airlines, subways, hotels and public transpor... |
12 June 2007
02:06 GMT |
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Acai, bacuri and cupuacu. These words may mean nothing to you, but in Brazil they sound more familiar, as they are three exotic fruits from the Amazonia. The nutritious acai is produced by a slender palm tree, acai palm or manaca (Euterpe oleracea), which thrives in the wet marshes and alluvial plains of the lower Am... |
21 March 2007
12:08 GMT |
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