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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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Fruit juices including GrapeFruits, Orange and Apple can dramatically reduce the effectiveness of heart and cancer drugs. Potentially the medicines could be rendered useless if they are taken at the same time as drinking juice, Canadian researchers said.The evidence emerged from a study in which grapefruit juice was found to shut certain drugs out of the body.Other fruit juices, notably orange and apple, are thought to have the same effect.

Patients consuming fruit or juice to be healthy run the risk of wiping out the benefits of their medicines — among them vital treatments for heart disease, cancer, organ transplant rejection and infection, the scientists warned. For 20 years it has been known that grapefruit juice can boost the potency of some drugs, increasing the risk of an overdose. Some prescription drugs now carry labels warning patients not to drink grapefruit juice or eat fresh grapefruit at the same time as taking the medicines.

The new research, presented at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Philadelphia in America, shows that taking fruit juices with drugs may negate their effects. In tests, healthy volunteers took fexofenadine — an antihistamine used to fight allergies. They swallowed the drug with either a single glass of grapefruit juice, water containing naringin — the chemical responsible for the fruit’s bitter taste –or plain water. When the medicine was taken with grapefruit juice, only half as much of the drug was absorbed into the body as it was with water.

Study leader Professor David Bailey, from the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, said losing half of a drug dose could be critical.” The concern is loss of benefit of medications essential for the treatment of serious medical conditions,” he said. Grapefruit, orange and apple juices all lowered the absorption of the anti-cancer agent etoposide, Prof Bailey added. They also reduced the potency of certain beta blockers — used to treat high blood pressure and prevent heart attacks

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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 has been some recent buzz in Hollywood about so-called “strawberry cocaine.” TMZ did some crack study and got the low down on the blow.

Flavored cocaine is not anything new, we’re told. Law enforcement basis tell us that since the 80s people have been trade coke in all sorts of flavors, as well as rum and cherry, and now it appears strawberry are back and all the rage.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ, which strawberry flavoring is additional to the drug to give it its fruity flavor. Years ago just adding food coloring was big thing– brown and also red cocaine was the talk of the town. Theoretically, you can make or add any flavor you’d like to the drug.

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The wholesale dry fruit market on Saturday closed on a higher note as most of the supplies prices shot up on coming out demand coupled with tiny arrival from producing centers and then closed with fresh grains.

Market men said higher up-country advices too influenced market sentiments.

‘Almond California’ quoted higher by Rs 400 to settle at Rs 12,500 per 40 kg.

Its kerel also followed suit and dear at Rs 435-436 per kilo.

Copra enhanced at Rs 6,500-6,600 against earlier level of Rs 5,800-5,900 due to negligible arrival from southern region.

Fig also quoted higher at Rs 7,000-12,000 instead of Rs 6,500-11,500 per 40 kilo.

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Tholen – The past few years, the export of French summer fruit has been moribund continually. The pear export decreases with 17%, and the peach and nectarine export even with 25%. To revitalize the French export market, the French company Sunshine Fruits and the UK-based business Red bridge are teaming up to promote the wholesale trade of French summer fruit.

Their joint promotion campaign would start in July. They aim to augment the sales volumes at wholesale markets. The companies budgeted £ 60.000 ($ 96.000) for their campaign.

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Fruits and vegetables have long been known to give vitamins, minerals and fiber essential for the normal, every day functioning of the human body. Research studies also have revealed that eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables might decrease the risk for some cancers, heart disease and other chronic health problems. A recent appraisal of the literature also indicates that alternate fruits and vegetables (not usually considered for their weight loss properties) for more energy-dense foods could assist people lose and/or maintain their weight.

Here are some simple suggestions from the Centers for Disease Control for cutting calories by eating fruits and vegetables in its place of more calorie-dense foods.

Breakfast
Substitute green peppers, onions or mushrooms for one of the eggs or half the cheese in your omelet. The vegetables would add volume and flavor to the dish with fewer calories than the egg or cheese.

Cut back on the amount of cereal in your bowl to make room for sliced bananas, fresh peaches or strawberries. The benefits same sized bowl with less calories and more flavors.

Lunch
Substitute vegetables such as lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, grated carrots or onions for half to three-fourths of the meat and cheese in your sandwich, wrap or burrito. The new version would still fill you up but with fewer calories than the original.

Choose a vegetable-based soup rather than a meat or noodle-based one. If you’re making your own soup, add twice the chopped vegetables called for and half the meat or noodles. The vegetables would help fill you up, so you won’t miss those extra calories.

Choose an apple, orange or carrot sticks to go with your sandwich instead of chips or cookies.

Dinner
Add 1 cup chopped vegetables such as broccoli, tomatoes, squash or peppers while removing 1 cup of the rice or pasta in your favorite dish. The dish with the vegetables would be just as satisfying but have fewer calories than the original version.

Take a good look at your dinner plate. Vegetables, fruit and whole grains should take up half your plate. If they don’t, replace some of the meat, cheese, white pasta or rice with legumes, steamed broccoli, asparagus, greens or another favorite vegetable. This would reduce the total calories in your meal without reducing the amount of food you eat.

Snacks
Fruits and vegetables make wonderful low-calorie yet filling snacks. For instance, a medium-size apple, a medium-size banana or 1 cup of carrots, broccoli or bell peppers with 2 tablespoons of hummus all contain 100 calories or less.

Instead of a high-calorie snack from a vending machine, bring cut-up vegetables or fruit from home. One snack-sized bag of corn chips (1 ounce) has the same number of calories as a small apple, 1 cup of whole strawberries, and AN 1 cup of carrots with a quarter-cup of low-calorie dip.

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The aple is a tree and its pomaceous fruit, of the species Malus domestica in the rose family Rosaceae. It is oe of the most widely cultivated tree fruits. It is a small decduous tree reahing 5-12 m tall, with a broad, often densely twiggy crow. The leave are alternately arranged, simple oal with an acute tip and serrted margin, slightly downy below, 5-12 cm long and 3-6 cm broad on a 2-5 cm petiole. The flowers are produced in spring with the leaves, white, usually tinged pink at first, 2.5-3.5 cm diametr, with five petals. The fruit matures in Autumn, and is typically 5-8 cm diameter.

Commercially-popular apple cultivars are soft but crisp. Other desired qualities in modern commercial apple breeding are a colourful skin, absence of russeting, ease of shipping, lengthy storage abiliy, high yields, disease the top of the fruit), and popular flavour.Old cultivars are often oddly shaped, sseted, and have a variety of textures and colours. Many of them have excellent flavour (oten betterthan most moern cultivars), but may have other problems which make them commercially unviable, such as low yield, liability to disease, or poor tolerance for storage or transport. A few old cultivars are still produced on a large scale, but many have been kept alive by home gardeners and farmers that sell directly to local markets. Many unusual and locally important cultivars with their own unique taste and appearance are out there to discover; apple conservation campaigns have sprung up around the world to preserve such local cultivars from exnt to eat fresh, but they give the beverage a rich flavour that dessert apples cannot.

Modern apples are, as a rule, sweeter than older cultivars. Most North Americans and Europeans favour sweet, subacid apples, but tart apples have a strong minority following. Extremely sweet appples vary from one person to another and have changed over time. As an example, the U.S. state of Washington made its reputation for apple growing on Red Delicious. In recent years, many apple connoisseurs have come to regard the Red Delicious as inferior to cultivars such as Fuji and Gala due to its merely mild flavour and insufficiently firm texture.

In this hybrid of an orchard apple with a red-fruited crabapple cultivar, the pulp is of the same colour as the pee.which are same colour as the rest of the fruit.Like most perennial fruits, apples are ordinarilypropagated asexually by grafting. Seedling apples are different from their paents, sometimes radically. Most new pple cultivars originate as seedlings, which either arise by chance or are bred by “pippin”, and “kernel” in the name of an apple cultivar suggest that it originated as a seedling. Apples can also form barent cultivar. Some differ sufficiently from the parent tree to be considered new cultivars.

Apple orchards are established by planting two to four year old trees. Thee small trees are usually purchased from a nursery where they are produced by grafting or budding. First, a rootstock is produced either as a seedling or cloned using tissue culture or layering. This is allowed to grow for a year. Then, a small section of branch called a scion is obtained from a mature apple tree of the desired cultivar. The upper stem and branches of semi-dwarf ootstock that produces a somewhat smaller tree. Dwarfootstocks are generally more susceptible to damage from wind and cold. Full dwarf trees are often supported of posts or trellises and planted in high density orchards which are much simpler to culture and greatly increase productivity per unit of land. Red AppleSome trees are produced with a dwarfing “interstem” between a standard rootstock and the tree, resulting in two graftsin thorchard, it must grow for 3-5 years (semi-dwarf) or 4-10 years (standard trees) before it will bear sizeable amounts of fruit. Good training of limbs and careful nipping of buds growing in the wrong places, are extremely important during this time, to build a good scaffold that will later support a fruit load.

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The mango Mangifera spp.; Hindi: lural mangos or mangoes is a genus of about 35 species of tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae, native to India and Southeast Asia, of which the Indian Mango M. indica is by far the most important commercially. Reference to mangos as the “food of the gods” can be found in the Hindu Vedas. The name of the fruit comes from the Malayalam word manga, and popularised by the Portuguese after their Indian exploration, hence the word ‘manga’ in Portuguese .

Mangos are large trees, reaching 35-40 m in height, with a crown radius of 10 m. The leaves are evergreen, alternate, simple, 15-35 cm long and 6-16 cm broad; when young they are orange-pink, rapidly changing tom long and 7-12 cm diameter, and may weigh up to 2.5 kg. The ripe fruit is variably coloured yellow, o and red, reddest on the sid facing the sun and yellow where shaded; green usually indicate that thongstone that can b fibrous or hairless on the surface, depending on cultivar. Ie theshell, Central Ameria, the aribbean, south and central Africa and Australia. It is easily cultivated and there are now more than 1,000 cultvars, rangig from the turpentine mango (from the strong taste of turpntine, which according to the Oxford Cmpanion to Food some varieties actually contain) to the huevos de toro (“bull’s balls”, from the shape and size). The mango is reputed to be the most commonly eaten fresh fruit worldwide. Mangos also readily naturalize in tropicalclimates. Some lowland forests in the Hawaiian Islands are dominated by introduced mangos.

Tuber-producing plant related to the morning glory. The flesh of the tuber can be white, yellow, orange, or purple. Sweet potatoes are often confused with potatoes and yams, which are not the same at all.Sweet potatoes are ich in dietary fiber, vitamn C and vitamin B6. The orange ones are also rich in beta-carotine. In tropical areas they ar a staple food crop. The tubers are most frequently boiled, fried or bked. ubers can also be processed to make starch and a partial flour substitute.he tubers, leaves and shoots are all edible. Some variants are sold as house plants for their beautiful flowers; these plants will produce sweet potatoes. The plants tend to be large vines.Farmers in the Southern United States started using the term “yam” to distinguish between the softer orange variety and the drier white variety.
The mango is a popular fruit with people around the world. However, many mango farmers receive a low price for their produce. This has led to mngoes being available as a ‘fair trade’ item in some countries of a ripe mango aste of thefruit is ver sweet, with some cultivars having a slight acidic tang. The texture ofthe flesh varies markedly between different cutivars; some have quite a soft and pulpytexture similr to an oer-ripe m, while otherhave a firmer flesh much like that of a cataloupe or avoweet taste nd hgh water content make them refreshing to eat, thouamily as poison ivy and containurushiol, though much les than poison ivy. Some eople get dermatitis from touching mango peel or sap. Persons showing an allergic reaction after handling aos soothe the intestines, which makes them easy to digest. In India, where mangoes are the national fruit, they are thought to help stop bleeding, to strengthen the heart, and to benefit the brain.

Generally, once ripe, they are quite juicy and can be very messy to eat. However, those exported to temperate regions are, like most tropical fruit, picked under-ripe. Although they are ethylene producers and rip in transit,they do not have the same juiciness or flavour as the fresh fruit. A ripe mango wiTurn the ango over and repeat the process, cutting across the other flat surfzuelWith ech big slice that has been removed, cut hatch marks through the flesh just down to the ski. The, holding the portion flsh-side-up, press the thumb on the skin side underneath as if turnig the piece inside out. Many bite-sized pieces of flesh will pop up and can be cut out to put into a fruit sald or other preparation. This technique is sometimes called theeatmango is to simply use a sharp kife to peel the ski competely. Then ake horizontal and vertial cuts on each side till the flatsone is reached. Slice off the flesh from each side of the stone and then slice the remaining flesh left on the side of the stone. This method works best on mangoes that are ripe and which have firm flesh. Another simpler way to enjoy mangos is to buy them frozen or dried as they are becoming more common in this form i local markets.

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