and is between a grapefruit and a lemon in size. The white flesh inside the thick skin is filled by hundreds of seeds. (Tohi, 2016) For thousands of years Ayurvedic medicine has used pomegranates as a source for traditional remedies. Pomegranate juice and seeds are used as a heart tonic, while the fruit rind and the bark of the tree is used for, dysentery, diarrhoea, bladder problems, mouth ulcers, and intestinal parasites.…
Strawberry blossom weevil (Anthonumus rubi). The strawberry blossom weevil (SBW) is one of the biggest pest in strawberry farming. It occurs every year and it is spread to the entire growing area in Sweden. It causes important yield loss and is a serious pest in conventional and organic strawberry farming. Non treated fields can results in 50% of the flower buds damaged and significant yield loss (Svensson, 2002). Biology The Strawberry blossom weevil, Anthonomus rubi (Herbst), is a small black…
The socioeconomic characteristics of the population were evaluated to provide an understanding of the local social and economic context in which the fruit consumption took place. Likert scales were constructed to appraise the impression of respondents of harvested fruit on farm and purchased fruit as well as farmers’ impression about wild fruit, fruit consumption by certain categories of persons and fruit consumption by children. All variables were first synthesised using descriptive statistics.…
the effect type of fruit had on the consistency of Jell-O. The Jell-O with apple slices in it had the hardest consistency, and the pennies dropped into the Jell-O/apple mixture dropped an average of .07 inches into the container. The pennies in the mango and Jell-O mixture dropped in an average of 1.1875 inches in, and the pennies dropped an average of 1.4875 inches into the pineapple and Jell-O mixture, meaning the apples and Jell-O solution’s pennies sunk in the least. The penny was not able…
“ You know better than that!” I hear a small voice say coming from within the tree. “I’m sorry papa but I didn’t think that that apple would fall! I just assumed it would be a nice place to lay.” Another voice whined. “Hello?” I…
Common Theme~ The two stories, “If I forgot Thee, Oh Earth” and “Silent Spring” share a common theme of people destroying earth because they are not taking care of it. 2. “If I Forgot Thee, Oh Earth” by Arthur C. Clarke “Across a quarter of a million miles of space, the glow of dying atoms was still visible, a perennial reminder of the ruinous past” (165). I believe this is meant to say that the ruinous Earth the people created will always still be visible because of the glow. The…
warm summers and mild winters, which is prior to produce apple crop (Climate Action Initiative, 2015; A Guide to BC’s Agriculture Resources, 2014). Apples are one of the most valuable edible horticulture crops in BC. BC produces 21% of apple in Canada (Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 2013). About 2% of BC apples are grown in the Fraser Valley (A Guide to BC’s Agriculture Resources, 2014). Pests are one of the most serious problem in apple orchards in the Fraser Valley. To control the pests,…
"I just love the mornings,” Bilbo was thinking to himself. The night before, Bilbo had just saved the whole party from a giant spider, and they were all very thankful towards him, since if he wasn’t there, they all would’ve suffered one painful, sticky death. “Why don’t we sit down and enjoy a good morning meal, I bet most of us are sore from that spider, and there’s nothing like a good meal to make you feel better!” suggested Bilbo. The faces of the dwarves lit up, but only for a second,…
separates their properties from each other. The Cow in Apple Time also by Robert Frost is about an obstinate cow that breaks through a wall to escape her pasture for an apple orchard where she devours apples until she feels agony and reaches her inevitable end. Robert Frost uses multiple images of a wall and a cow as extended metaphors to develop various themes. In Mending…
How to bake an Apple Crisp “An apple a day keeps the doctors away!” The apple’s ability to detoxify that Russian doctors made irradiated children from Chernabyl eat apples. Indeed, many researchers discovered that pectin in apples can help reduce radiation levels in children’s bodies. Instead of only eat apple purely in its fruit form, I try to eat apple in different ways: Apple Cheese Danish, Apple-Cranberry Dessert, Apple Crisp, Apple pie, and Apple Pie bread. Apple Crisp is my favorite…