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    Exotic Fruits

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    Title: Exotic Fruits Aims and Objectives * To investigate on the general trend of exotic fruits consumption among participants. * To inquire about the main exotic fruits on the local market and to find out the different types of exotic fruits. * To investigate on the nutritional content of exotic fruits. * To find out the different ways of cooking exotic fruits. * To compare: * How economic‚ exotic fruits are compared to imported fruits. * Their advantages and disadvantages

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    Dragon Fruit

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    Dragon fruit‚ also known as pitaya or pitahaya‚ belongs to the Hylocereus genus of the Cactaceae family. It is recognized as leathery‚ slightly leafy – skinned sweet fruit of many cactus species rooted from Mexico‚ which was believed to be then brought to Central America by the European. Nowadays‚ dragon fruits are widely cultivated in the United States‚ the South East Asia region‚ Israel‚ Australia‚ Cyprus‚ as well as the Canary Islands (Morton‚ 1987). The term “dragon fruit” is used in English

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    Cultivation of Fruits

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    Aonla or Indian gooseberry (Emblica officinalis) is an indigenous fruit to Indian subcontinent. Owing to hardy nature‚ suitability to various waste-lands‚ high productivity/unit area (15–20t/ha)‚ nutritive and therapeutic value aonla have become an important fruit. Its fruits are a rich source of vitamin ‘C’. Aonla fruit is highly valued among indigenous medicines. It is acrid‚ cooling‚ refrigerant‚ diuretic and laxative. Dried fruits have been reported to be useful in haemorrhages‚ diarrhoea‚ dysentery

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    Citrus Fruit

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    Citrus microcarpa A Great Citrus Fruit to Know and Grow Lewis Kho Harold E. Tamdang AMA Computer College Author’s Note This paper was prepared for NSCI01-A (General Chemistry) taught by Romeo E. Bejar‚ Jr. Cpe. Description:  Calamansi (scientific name: Citrus microcarpa) is a fruit tree in the family Rutaceae that was developed in and is very popular throughout Southeast Asia‚ especially the Philippines‚ where it is most commonly used for cooking. In the west it is variously known as

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    Strange Fruit

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    Adriana Mitrelis Ms. Kettle English 12 H 13 November 2012 The song “Strange Fruit” was first exposed as a poem written by Abel Meeropol who may be better recognized under his alias‚ Lewis Allan. “Strange Fruit” was finalized in the late 1930s‚ the same time that African- Americans in the South were being lynched by white supremacist groups in the days of America’s post- Abolition movement. Throughout the movement‚ the stress on seeing no evil and hearing no evil at this time was strongly enforced

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    Exotic Fruit

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    exotic fruit and vegetables form developing countries are not reliable. However‚ in my opinion‚ to promote importing exotic fruit and vegetables from developing countries sounds a feasible idea. To begin with‚ the import of exotic fruit and vegetables can diminish the capital used on the study of food. Developed countries usually focus on tertiary industry. Resources devote on researching or technology should always be put on the top priority. Therefore‚ the investigation on exotic fruit and vegetable

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    Dragon fruit

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    Dragon fruit in Vietnam has three main varieties: red-skinned fruit with white flesh‚ red-skinned fruit with red flesh and yellow-skinned fruit with white flesh. Since the white-fleshed dragon fruit (or Pitaya) can grow stronger‚ larger and produce sweeter fruit than other varieties‚ they are much more planted in the Vietnam. Dragon fruit with red and yellow flesh are also popular‚ but the area for red-fleshed dragon fruit in the rural areas in Vietnam is trivial and its productivity equals only

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    Strange Fruit

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    Daniel Sou Strange Fruit “Strange Fruit” is one of the best poems written around the topic of segregation and racism. “Strange Fruit” was produced in the late 1930s‚ the same time that African Americans in the South were being lynched by white supremacist groups in the days of America’s Abolition movement. Throughout the movement‚ the stress on seeing no evil and hearing no evil at this time was strongly enforced. Yet‚ Abel Meeropol expressed the horrors that African Americans experienced throughout

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    Fruit Fly

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    Drosphila melanogaster (fruit flies) and set up genetic crosses in order to determine the pattern of inheritance of certain mutant traits. The traits for which we will examine the pattern of inheritance are apterous (wingless)‚ vestigial (crippled wings) or white eyes. These are all mutant strains. The normal condition (winged and red eyes) is referred to as the wild type strain. Objective: The intial cross mates homozygous mutant fruit flies with homozygous wild type fruit flies in order to produce

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    Fruit Ripening

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    are some fruits sweet and some sour‚ whereas others have no specific taste? Naturally fruit contains cellulose‚ proteins‚ starch‚ proteins‚ vitamins‚ certain acids and fructose (or sugar). When fruit ripens‚ a series of chemical changes occur in the fruit that result in either a sweet fruit‚ sweet and sour fruit‚ sour fruit or fruit with no specific taste. During these changes‚ the acids content in fruit becomes less and the fructose content increases thereby resulting in a sweet fruit (Coen

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