Questions tagged [vegetable]
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What is the difference between vegetable and fruit?
Is there any exact definition of vegetable and fruit? How can new plant be classified?
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What kind of kale is this?
I'm from Pennsylvania and I used to get this kale all the time at the grocery store, but I moved to the West Coast recently and can't find it anywhere! It looks exactly like this photo:
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Why do carrots spoil so fast?
The carrots we buy from a supermarkets spoil very fast, albeit giving many consumers a false sense of preservability due to their structural rigidity. The answer extends to many other vegetables many of us eat:
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Why do some people find vegetables so repellent when evolutionarily they should find them an attractive and thus tasty food?
Why do certain people (especially kids) find vegetables so "repellent" when evolutionarily they should find them an attractive and thus tasty food?
I ask this question because if Darwin's theory of evolution is true then foods like vegetables that…
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What can give rocket salad (Eruca Sativa) a fish smell?
I bought an 'already washed' plastic tray of rocket salad (arugula, or Eruca Sativa) enclosed in a sealed plastic bag. It has been kept in the refrigerator for four days. When I opened it, some 12 days before the "best before" date, I noticed a…
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How are there multiple varieties of the potato?
The potato appears to propagate by growing an 'eye'/'bud' which eventually grows into a new plant. So there would probably be single representative of the potato species in the world with all others being genetically identical.
Yet wikipedia…
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Strange Onion and i don't know what it's
Today i cutting my onion and i saw so many verbs like this in it. I searched about it through google lens and manually also but unable to find the reason of this. I doubt is it serious case ?
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What is the protocol for extracting Protease Onion?
I am Investigating the protease concentration in certain fruits and vegetables. I am unable to find the protocols for the extraction from onions. I want to purify my protein using the ammonium sulphate (salting out) followed by dialysis. I am…
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What does effect would Sulforaphane have on Kennedy's Disease?
Sulforaphane is a isothiocyanate found in cruciferous vegetables including broccoli and cauliflower. Its 2D structure is as follows:
It's been found to serve as a histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) inhibitor and to inhibit androgen receptor expression…
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Why do same type of fruits come in different sizes?
Why don't fruits come in exact same size even they're the same type of fruit?
This sounds like an obvious question,
but why are some apples bigger than others?
and why are some bananas larger than other bananas? or some trees grow taller than…
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Pepper plant leaf curl and "sweating"
The "sweating" and leaf curl have been going on for about a week. I've done some extensive googling and have found mixed diagnoses. For context, the ambient temperature is 74°, I'm using 6,500 K lamps and there are some flies around, but they are…
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Grafting vegetables onto fruit-bearing trees
There are multi-fruit trees with as many as 40 different fruit, but would it be possible to graft a vegetable onto a tree?
Or maybe something in between, like grafting onto an apple tree a fruits in the botanical sense, but one of those often eaten…
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A balanced diet with the minimum carbon footprint
Many studies shows that 1 kg of non-vegetarian food as 3-4 times more carbon footprint than 1 kg of vegetarian food. I think that does not represent the complete picture food from animal sources are rich in some nutrients. For example pound for…
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How does garlic preparation affect its active compounds or medicinal properties?
I read the following claims about how to consume garlic:
Consume immediately after crushing since the active compounds (allicin) is volatile and gets oxidized as soon as it's crushed
Allow to sit 10 minutes after crushing to allow time for allicin…
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Identify vegetable with stalks coming out of it
I know nothing more about this vegetable than the fact that it is safely edible, which a local vegetable vendor in South India told me. It's green (white inside) and has a strong smell resembling that of cabbage. It has these stalks coming out of…
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