H2O (l) + CO2 + C20H24N2O2 + H2O (s) + C2H6O + C10H16 + C6H8O7 = Delicious
Experiment with the stoichiometry to suit your own tastes. 1:1:1:1:1:1:1 is not recommended.
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Average UK family wastes £680 of food each year
Despite the drop, this remains horrific if the figures are to be believed. £2 a day?! Isn’t that more than what half the world’s population earns (and therefore more than the total they have to compete with us in the food market)?
What You Eat Affects Your Genes: RNA from Rice Can Survive Digestion and Alter Gene Expression
- The team concludes that miRNAs may be a new class of functional components in food, like vitamins or minerals—even in an animal that’s pretty far removed from their home organism, they can manipulate gene expression and have an effect on nutrition.
- Since miRNAs from plants haven’t been on scientists’ radar before, this should be a field ripe for further exploration…
What's gone wrong with our tomatoes?
Worth reading, particularly if you eat tomatoes! I’m not a fan of the idea of local food for its own sake (or based on misguided environmental assumptions) but, despite their energy needs, there seems to be a good case for tomatoes!
The tomato’s basic biology makes it inherently unsuitable for commercial production. […]
While their leafy vine is tough and durable, its bright red fruit is quite the reverse. Indeed, when a ripe tomato is ready for eating, it is often so fragile as to be impossible to handle without causing damage. For the home-grower, fragility is no problem: you are likely to eat the tomato within hours of picking it. For a commercial producer it is, however, a disaster. To arrive on a supermarket shelf, a tomato must survive roughly a week of picking, packing and shipping. […]
In the US, every store-bought “Tommie” is therefore removed from its vine when it is still bright green and “reddened” artificially, by leaving it for 24 hours in a room full of ethylene gas. […]
Every technical innovation has been designed to oil the wheels of production, rather than improving flavour.
