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45 Cards in this Set
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What is the name of a meat substitute made from fungus?
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Quorn
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What products are being made using Quorn?
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Chicken-like nuggets
Lasagna Fettuccini alfredo ground-beef alternative |
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What is the name of fungus protein?
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Mycoprotein
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Scientists found the fungus used to make Quorn growing ______________.
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west of London
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What is the population of China? What will it be in 10 years?
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2 billion; 3 billion
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The number of new mouths to feed each year is equal to ...
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the entire population of Mexico
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Pests consume or destroy __%-__% of our foods, even using pesticides.
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25%-40%
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Most Americans eat __-__ pounds of insects every year. That's like eating ____ bees.
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1-2 pounds; 7,000 bees
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How many children died last year from starvation and malnutrition
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6 million
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Asparagus
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In six asparagus: 5 insects, 40 thrips, 40 insects in 100 g sample
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Chocolate
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One sample: 60 microscopic insect fragments or an average of 1.5 rodent hairs
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Coffee beans
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10% insect-infestation damage or molded
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Fig paste
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13 insect heads in two 100 g samples
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Fish
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20% of the body may be rotten; 5% can be stinking and rotten over 25% of body
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Hops
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(used to make beer)2500 insects per ? grams
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Pepper
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1% insect- or mold-infested by weight
1% excreta in a pound |
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Popcorn
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10 oz sample: one rodent pellet or 1 rodent hair; 20 knawed grains per pound with hair in 50% of sample
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Spinach
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In 100 g sample: either 50 aphids, 50 thrips or 50 mites; 8 leaf miners per can; 2 spinach worms or 10% decomposition
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Strawberries
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55% may be moldy
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Tomatoes
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2 maggots per can
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Golden raisins
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35 fruit-fly eggs per 8 oz sample
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Potato chips
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6% by weight can show rot.
The green ring around some chips is solanin, a toxin. |
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Green coffee beans
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One live bug out of two containers or 2 dead ones in five containers
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Chocolate
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1 rodent hair per 100 g
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Peaches
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3% moldy or wormy by count
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Mushrooms
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3.5 oz can: 20 maggots
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Whole pepper
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1% mammalian excreta per pound on average
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__ cause the most alergies. In the United States, __ million are allergic to them.
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Peanuts; 1.5 million
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The biggest health problems in America
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diabetes and heart disease
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About how many kids nowadays are overweight?
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50%
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The most consumed food in the United States
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Milk
(291 lbs a year per person) |
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Second most consumed food in the United States
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Irish potatoes
(120 lbs per year) |
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Unhealthy stuff on the Top 33 list
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refined sugar, oil and edible fats, ice cream, shortening, margarine, butter, lard
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Armor potted meat
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mechanically separated chicken, beef tripe, partially defatted cooked beef fatty tissue, beef hearts, partially defatted cooked pork fatty tissue
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Swift premium meats
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beef tripe, pork stomachs, rendered beef fat, lard, beef hearts, tissue solids
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Spread for crackers in Christmas package
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pork liver, lard, goose fat, goose liver, truffles
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Hogs' head cheese
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hog snouts, hog hearts, hog skin, watery pork, hog brains
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The No. 1 source of food in the world
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seed plants
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Seed plants give us ___% of the total direct food from plants.
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99%__
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__% of the toal agricultural effort is to feed ___
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80%; people
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How many species of plants are known?
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350,000
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How many species of insects are there?
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800,000-1 million
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Of all the plants in the world, how many are used for food?
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3,000
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How many plants are widely cultivated?
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300
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Of the 300 widely cultivated plants, __ produce __% of the world's food supply.
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11; 95%
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