To store apples, refrigerate them in a plastic bag or in the crisper drawer. Check the stored apples often – one bad apple can spoil the whole bag! When you cut a raw apple, it may turn dark. To prevent this, dip the pieces in a fruit juice like lemon, orange, grapefruit, or pineapple before combining with other ingredients. Right now, apples are in pretty good supply. Whether you buy locally g...

Ever wondered what in the world that meant? Especially when you walk into a world class buffet and take in the spread of food. Hot and cold cereals and porridges, freshly baked rolls and breads of countless varieties stacked neatly in wicker baskets, pastries, crepes, crumpets, pancakes and waffles artistically piled up with every accompaniment you could imagine: cream, cinnamon sugar, honey, s...

Lignocellulosic agricultural byproducts are a copious and cheap source for cellulose fibers. Agro-based biofibers have the composition, properties and structure that make them suitable for uses such as composite, textile, pulp and paper manufacture. In addition, biofibers can also be used to produce fuel, chemicals, enzymes and food. Byproducts produced from the cultivation of corn, wheat, rice...

Slips are side-shoots or fruit with large crowns that grow from buds on the pineapple ( Ananas comosus L.) peduncle. The slips widely used for vegetative propagation when left attached to is marketed. There a difference between two most popular low-acid hybrids grown worldwide. ‘Pineapple Research Institute 73-50’ (CO-2, MD-1) develop few roots planted compared 73-114’ (MD2). slow rooting of 73...

Abstract India is the largest fruit and vegetable producer. Until eaten, peel stays waste. Phenolic acids, ascorbic acid, β-carotenes, flavonoids are most bioactive components of pineapples. This one secondary plant metabolites abundantly present in pineapple skins this sample, ferulic acid. Ferulic acid a low-toxic phenolic widely used diet cosmetics. extracted using different conventional non...