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Many industries were sold fruits to consumers around the world. But millions of fruits are being wasted and causing harmful problems to our environment. But no one is taking attention for this.

convert fruit wastes into energy

Steps to follow:

• First degrade the fruit wastes of fruits like apples, oranges, lemons, limes and tomatoes by adding Pectinase and/or Cellulase to the fruit waste.
• Incubate them in a mixture of enzyme and water. After 2 hours, measure the percent decrease from the original mass of the waste.
• If there will be the change in concentration of the enzyme, then the length of incubation would decrease the amount of fruit waste.
• Pectinase was the most resourceful enzyme to degrade the fruit waste. It had an average of 53.6% decrease from the waste’s original mass. Cellulose had an average of 26.4% decrease from the original mass.
• Pectinase and Cellulose helps to degrade a higher percentage of the fruit waste were as the length of time and the amount of concentration of the enzyme increased.
• At last large amounts of fruit waste can be degraded using Pectinase. While the minimized waste can be converted into ethanol by attacking the cellulose using enzymes to make sugar and to ferment those sugars and converts it into ethanol.

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Which is best for our health: whole fruits or fruit juice? It’s much difficult to say what’s what. The main thing to look for a healthy juice is 100% juice displayed on the package. Check about the grams of sugar is in each serving.

Some advantages of intake of fruit juices are:

• It’s easy to mix several types of juice and drink the equivalent to several pieces of fruit in one glass.
• It’s better to drink fruit juice than to consume no fruits at all. Some juice might lose its nutritional value when pre-packaged on grocery shelves. Still, a few vitamins and antioxidants may be intense at higher levels in juices.
• When you eat the whole fruit, you consume fewer calories. You may satisfy for a longer period of time than by just drinking a glass of juice.

You may think that you will lose lots of nutrients by squeezing the fruit juice and drinking it. But the truth is fruit juice contains nearly as much of the vital fiber as the whole fruit.

Include the edible skins to make fruit juice at home and get more nutritional value. Drinking juice is what it takes for you to get fruit into your diet. While eating the whole fruit is considered an ideal way to consume it. If you are not much of a fruit or vegetable eater, it might be easier to incorporate fruits into your diet by drinking them.  Make your own fruit juice is an easy one.  Use a blender to create a massive amount of healthy, delicious juice for you and your family. Kids don’t even know that they are getting something that’s good for them.

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The method of drying the fruit ensures a 100% chemical free process. It creates an increased interest, awareness and support for eating more fruits and vegetables. Intake of dried fruits per day varied among different ages like kids (5-12ages) 2½ – 5 cups, teens (13 – 18 ages) 3½ – 6½ cups and adults (above 19 ages) 3½ – 6½ cups.

Reasons to eat dried fruits:

• Source of dietary fiber.
• Potassium maintains muscle contractions and a healthy nervous system of whole body.
• Iron, a vital mineral for maintaining the delivery of oxygen throughout the body.

Varieties of dried fruits:

Most important facts of dried fruits:

Though it is healthy as fresh fruits, but it’s not suitable for those who wish to lose weight. Since it does not contain water, but is very rich in sugar content. Hence it’s advisable to consume them in only moderate quantities where 1-cup grapes have 60 calories while 1-cup raisins contain 495 calories. So, dried fruits can make your weight loss program a complete breakdown. But people who are underweight, dried fruits serve as the perfect solution to gain weight and look great.

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By technical definition, a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single seed. The strawberry, however has its dry, yellow “seeds” on the outside (each of which is actually considered a separate fruit). True berries, like blueberries and cranberries have seeds inside. However, the banana fruit is a berry for the same reason strawberries are not.

There is a theory that strawberries were named by 19th century children who picked the fruit, strung them on grass straws, and sold them as “Straws of berries”.

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You might have come across many fruits facts, but these are the ones that you might have never heard about. Go through the video to enjoy….

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Today, Community Food Bank unveils its newest program to bring such food to the poor. A neighborhood market takes place 9 a.m.-noon in a parking lot belonging to Mount Olive Baptist Church at Clinton of prefer the fruits and vegetables they want. The food is free.

The produce is supplied by the Farm to Family Program of the California Association of Food Banks, which gather donations of fruits and vegetables from farmers.

This is a great idea, particularly since donations are fruits and vegetables that are tasty but don’t meet the size or shape standards desired by stores.

Community Food Bank plans to create neighborhood markets throughout Fresno, Madera and Kings counties, says Dana Wilkie, its president and chief executive officer. She expects to give away 1 million pounds of fruits and vegetables per year.

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A new study that looks at the fruit and vegetable consumption of nearly 200,000 people discovers that the prevalence of insufficient diet is “remarkably high” across the globe. Overall, 77.6 percent of men and 78.4 percent of women consumed less than the recommended five daily servings of produce.

“Low fruit and vegetable consumption is a risk factor for overweight and obesity, and sufficient consumption decreases risk of raising several chronic diseases,” said lead author Spencer Moore. “The release of the 2002-2003 World Health Survey data offered an exclusive opportunity to inspect global differences in low fruit and vegetable consumption in a way that has until now simply not been possible.”

Moore is an assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada. He and his colleagues looked at data from 196,373 adults in 52 mainly low- and middle-income countries.

The study appears in the May issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. There were wide variations among nations, ranging from 37 percent of men in Ghana who did not meet that standard — to 99 percent of Pakistani men. The researchers saw similar results in women with the same two countries at the high and low ends of the spectrum.

The occurrence of low fruit and vegetable intake increased with age and decreased with income. These results astonished Moore, as surveys from the United States and other developed countries again and again show that fruit and vegetable intake increases with age.

“Most people despite the country that they live in simply do not meet the suggested guidelines for adequate fruit and vegetable consumption,” said co-author Justin Hall, a graduate student at Queen’s University. “Some countries appear to be better off than others in relative terms, but the overall prevalence of low fruit and vegetable consumption is remarkably high across the globe.”

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Located in Philips Park in Clayton, the orchard boasts 26 trees offering twelve different varieties of apple as well as pears, plums and cherries. Situated on the allotment site, the community facility also has bushes and plants including rhubarb, grapes, strawberries , raspberries and a variety of other berries.

The orchard is in an enclosed site, and opening times will vary depending on the time of year. These will be displayed on a notice board outside the space together with details of any planned activities and events taking place on the site.

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The Rawalpindi Sunday bazaars prices of food items at weekly witnessed a mixed trend on Sunday, as the prices of vegetables slightly dropped and the prices of fruits and poultry products increased.

Stallholders told Daily Times that prices of vegetables had dropped due to improvement in their supply. However, the stallholders said it was usual that prices of vegetables decrease during summer season, as there were no godowns where the traders could store the vegetables.

On Sunday, onions were being sold at Rs 55 per five kg, potatoes price decreased from last week’s Rs 148 to Rs 145 per 5 kg this week. Garlic (Chinese) was being sold at Rs 28 per kg and its local variety at Rs 30 per kg as compared to its last week price Rs 34 per kg. Ginger price also decreased from Rs 62 to Rs 60 per kg this week. Green chillies were being sold at Rs 48 per kg this week as compared to Rs 60 per kg last week.

Ladyfinger price also decreased from Rs 70 per kg last week to Rs 60 per kg this week, however, there was no change in price of bitter gourd, which were being sold at Rs 40 per kg.

Cucumbers were being sold at Rs 20 per kg against Rs 18 per kg last week. The price of tomatoes also witnessed an increase as they were being sold at Rs 40 per kg against Rs 24 per kg last week. Lemon price increased from Rs 56 per kg to Rs 68 per kg. There was no change in prices of cabbage and radish as they were being sold at same prices of last week Rs 16 and Rs 12 per kg respectively.

Good quality bananas were being sold at Rs 40 per dozen against Rs 30 per dozen last week, apple at Rs 70-60 per kg against Rs 80-65 per kg last week, pear (Chinese) at Rs 70 per kg against Rs 65 per kg last week, guava at Rs 45 per kg against Rs 40 per kg last week. The price of dates remained same as that of last week Rs 100 per kg. Oranges were being sold at Rs 80 per dozen this week against Rs 60 per dozen last week price.

Chicken was being sold at Rs 130 per kg this week against Rs 120 per kg last week, eggs at Rs 52 per dozen against Rs 54 per dozen last week. Fish was being sold at Rs 220, Rs 170 and Rs 155 per kg according to its varieties against last week’s prices Rs 210, Rs 150 and Rs100 per kg respectively.

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There and everywhere not sparing even the Indian food processing and agricultural sector, international trade fairs are trying to attract exhibitors and visitors from India to enable them to boost sales of Indian merchandise abroad.

Gerald Lamusse, who is currently visiting India to enlist participation, pointed out that there was huge opportunity for Indian exporters of fresh vegetables and fruits. “There are buyers looking for Indian products.

India needs to be at the Hong kong fair to supply to the South East Asian market,” Lamusse said, adding that India faced enormous challenges to establish infrastructure to boost agricultural and processed products.

Pointing out that India’s grape industry had made impressive gains in The European market, Lamusse said that opportunities were there to expand sales to new markets and push new products, which can be tapped only by participating in global fairs.

India’s food export growth in agricultural and processed food products was expected to shrink by 20 per cent during FY 2008-09.

India is the second largest producer of fruits and vegetables.

The country exported fresh fruits and vegetables to the value of Rs 2,437.12 crore in 2007-08, mainly to neighbouring countries.

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