An American company has developed a technique that it says can make bread stay mould-free for 60 days. The bread is zapped in a sophisticated microwave array which kills the spores that caus... Read more
We can keep bananas fresh for up to 12 days A solution finally may be at hand for the number one consumer gripe about America’s favorite fresh fruit ? bananas and their tendency to ripen, so... Read more
The first electrical enhancement of sweet potatoes Already ranked by some as number one in nutrition among all vegetables, the traditional sweet potato can be nutritionally supercharged, lit... Read more
Eat Your Fruits & Veggies! A long-held mantra suggests that you can’t change your family, the genes they pass on, or the effect of these genes. Now, an international team of scient... Read more
Algaecide is no crime. Consider that some strains of algae produce toxins lethal to wildlife, fish and plants. Even the less harmful varieties suck oxygen out of water, suffocating living cr... Read more
Because of soil depletion, crops grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today. It would be overkill to say that the carrot you eat toda... Read more
We’ve all done it – thrown out fruit or vegetables because they went rotten. Fungal contamination is the most common cause of spoilage of fresh produce, with an estimated 30 percent of... Read more
Image via Wikipedia THIS summer, Tony Tomelden hopes to be making bloody marys at the Pug in Washington, D.C., with tomatoes and chilies grown above the bar, thanks to the city’s incentives... Read more