TROPICAL FRUITS AND NUTS

... Avocado • Mango • Tropical nuts- importance • Coconut • Cashew READING CHAPTER IN TEXT Fruits from market in Panama Courtesy Dr Carol Augspurger Tropical fruits in a Queensland market Introduction ... of tropical fruits and nuts on pg 76 • Tables of production, p 77 Bananas • Bananas (Musa sp., Musaceae) are from southeast Asia The taxonomy is complex They were early taken to Madagascar and ... food plant Fruits of wild relatives have been gathered for thousands of years and presumably the cultivated ones arose from these Dates are nutritious and contain 75% carbohydrate and percent...

Fruits and nuts

... Temperate and Tropical fruits • Tropical fruits – form staple diet • Temperate fruits – additive fruits • Sweet varieties consumed raw • Acidic one preserved as jams, jellies, juices and syrups ... Chestnut; hazelnut; pecans; and walnut • Peanut, Almond?? • Most have wind pollinated flowers Pecans and Walnuts • Juglandaceae: – Persian walnut – J regia; Southeastern Europe and Asia – Black walnut ... Jamaica and Haiti and can also be found in U.S supermarkets • Pomegranates - Punica granatum – source of word for grenade since fruits will shatter and scatter seeds when thrown down Tropical nuts...

Investigation of the antioxidant nature of tropical plants and fruits

... (ABTS●+ and DPPH●) Comparison of the spectrum of the extract with that of the reaction mixture allowed for easy identification of antioxidant VI peaks The structures of the major antioxidants of Rhoeo ... DPPH●) and the extract, the antioxidants profile of vacuum fried and fresh fruits could be compared The effect of different radicals on the antioxidant profile was also investigated Variations of ... This decay in the fluorescence is measured and the antioxidant capacity of the sample was determined as the difference in the area under the curve (AUC) of antioxidant and that of the blank as...

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OUTBREAKS BY THE NUMBERS: FRUITS AND VEGETABLES 1990-2005 potx

... produce in the CSPI database Produce outbreaks account for 13% of foodborne illness outbreaks and 21% of illnesses in the database (Figure 1) Fifty percent of the produce outbreaks are caused by food ... with E coli, and potatoes with Salmonella In all produce outbreaks, Norovirus is the top cause of outbreaks (40%), followed by Salmonella (18%), E coli (8%) and Clostridium (6%) The main hazards ... CDC, and of the reported outbreaks between 1990 and 2005, less than 37% have both an identified etiology and food source The CDC publishes foodborne illness outbreak line listings organized by...

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Báo cáo sinh học: "Amylase polymorphism Drosophila melanogaster: haplotype frequencies in tropical African and American populations" pot

... carried by the proximal and the distal loci MATERIALS AND METHODS The populations studied had different origins, in the Afrotropical mainland and Indian Ocean islands, and one in Tropical America (Petit ... intrapopulational polymorphism and the level of heterozygosity Finally, the diversity of haplotypes provided some insight into the recombination processes occurring in natural populations, even if, in this kind ... variations in staining intensity of the electrophoretic bands make it possible to infer the number of copies of each allele In the case of amylase in D rreelanogaster, variations in band intensity...

Characterization of effective antioxidant components of tropical fruit and vegetable species

... Identification of antioxidants in fruits and vegetables ….……………………… 21 III 1.6.1 Analysis of antioxidants in fruits and vegetables using HPLC/DAD…… …… .23 1.6.2 Analysis of antioxidants in fruits and vegetables ... fruits and vegetables…………………………… 73 3.3.3 Effects of antioxidant components on TAC of fruits and vegetables……………… 74 3.4 Assessing antioxidant capacity of fruits, vegetables and pure antioxidants…………… ... Antioxidant components of fruits and vegetables……………………………………… 68 3.3.1 L-Ascorbic acid contribution to TAC of selected fruits and vegetables…………… 68 3.3.2 Total phenolic contents of fruits and...

Tropical Cyclones and Global Climate Change: A Post-IPCC Assessment

... Sydney, Australia, 127 pp 38 ——, C Landsea, G J Holland, and S Li, 1997: Tropical cyclones and climate change: A preliminary assessment Assessing Climate Change: Results from the Model Evaluation ... Sydney, Australia, 136 pp Lighthill, J., G J Holland, W M Gray, C Landsea, K Emanuel, G Craig, J Evans, Y Kurihara, and C P Guard, 1994: Global climate change and tropical cyclones Bull Amer Meteor ... have physical similarities with real tropical cyclones The simulated tropical disturbances for the present climate analyzed by Haarsma et al (1993) have a much larger horizontal extent and weaker...

TROPICAL FRUITS AND NUTS