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Why flies love 'vomit fruit' Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A smelly Polynesian fruit nicknamed the 'vomit fruit' drives away most predators, except a species of fruit fly.
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Will we eat wonky fruit and veg? Posted: 6 days ago by Bornbad
Regulations that stop strange-shaped fruit and vegetables being sold are being changed by the European Union. But are we willing to eat wonky veg?
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Sleep With The... Flies? Posted: 2 years ago by 2manyusernames
After a long day spent socializing or learning who to flirt with, scientists say fruit flies need to sleep longer, shedding light on what sleep may actually do for humans. Sleep remains a mystery. To delve into why people need to sleep, neurogeneticist Indrani Ganguly-Fitzgerald at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, Calif., and her colleagues Paul Shaw and Jeff Donlea at Washington University in St. Louis experimented with fruit fly genetics and behavior.
"Flies do most things that humans do—they eat, they sleep, they fight, they mate, they forage for food," Ganguly-Fitzgerald told LiveScience. Just as is often the case with humans, flies sleep a lot as young ones, sleep little as they get older, and "stay awake more after being fed caffeine and become sleepy in response to anti-histamine compounds," she said.
One idea scientists have about sleep is that our brains require it to process what we experienced during the day. The researchers found normal fruit flies that were allowed to socialize took hour-long daytime naps, compared to 15-minute catnaps taken by the isolated insects.
Their need for sleep grew with the size of the group they socialized with.
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Fizzy Fruit Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
Carbonated fruit!!
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Pure fruit juice not likely to put weight on kids Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Contrary to popular belief, drinking pure 100 percent fruit juice does not make young children overweight.
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Tango fruit drink commercial Posted: 2 years ago by escaflowne
Almost exactly like the Bravia Super Ball commercial, except the drink company flung fruit down the street and then left it to rot. Needless to say the residents were a bit upset.
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Man held in "Splash And Run" incident Posted: 6 months ago by pocksucket
A 42 year old man has been arrested on suspicion of spraying urine over fruit, meat and salad vegetables in two supermarkets in Gloucester.
So far, police will only reveal that the urine was sprayed from a kind of "tube".
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PREPARE FOR THE BIG GAME! WATERMELON TAP! Posted: 10 months ago by muppetmaker
This amazingly original idea,
A Watermelon filled with Spiked fruit Juice, with a tap.
How to on the page!
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Melon that tastes like lemon to go on sale at Tesco Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
A variety of melon that tastes more like a lemon is about to hit the shops.
The fruit resembles the honeydew variety but has the "zesty, fresh" taste of a lemon.
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The secret of eternal youth: how a tomato-a-day can reverse the effects of aging Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
It is a staple ingredient of meals from spaghetti bolognese to a simple salad. But the tomato's worth may extend far beyond the kitchen, with research showing the popular fruit can protect against sunburn. Feasting on tomato-based foods could also stave off the ravages of time, keeping the skin looking youthful into old age.
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Amazing close ups of fruit seeds...food as art, along with the science behind them Posted: 2 months ago by maven
A new book - written by two experts from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - reveals the ingenious and often devious strategies which plants have developed to help ensure their continued existence.
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Researchers Using Fruit to Aid the Sun’s Work Posted: 6 months ago by AutumnLotus
Blackberries, blueberries, oranges and grapes—chemistry students at Rowan University (Glassboro, N.J.) are loading up on their fruits these days, but it has nothing to do with the food pyramid. The students are using the fruit to produce solar energy.
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Chef wants to outlaw out-of-season vegetables Posted: 6 months ago by jhordie
Celebrity British chef Gordon Ramsay said restaurants should be fined if they serve locally out-of-season fruit and vegetables.
Apparently stardom has seriously gone to this guy's head.
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Lemon Tree in Japan Bears Eleven Kinds of Fruit! Posted: 11 months ago by mitzuzake
A 71-year-old farmer has found a unique solution to Japan's chronic shortage of space: grow 11 different kinds of fruit on a single tree. Sure beats eating fruit cocktail from a can!
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Mutated fruit Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
Pictures.(also a great name for a band)
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Miracle Fruit Turns Sour to Sweet Posted: 2 years ago by VooDooPeacock
A protein in this berry makes sweetness receptors on the tongue activate for sour tastes, so even straight lemon juice goes down like lemonade.
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Flies Don't Buzz About Aimlessly Posted: 2 years ago by suebe
How you ever stopped to wonder how a fruit fly is able to locate and blissfully drown in your wine glass on a warm summer evening, especially since its flight path seems to be so erratic?
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Woman accused of targeting a gay couple with a selection of produce Posted: 2 years ago by Bornbad
Wait a minute...She threw fruit at gays?(there's a joke there somewhere but you won't hear it from me)
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Fruit-flavored cocaine joins the trend Posted: 1 year ago by readingitall
First I thought, "wouldn't it make snorting that much more painful?"
Then I realized it was perfect for sugar art re:
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Fruity cocktails count as health food, study finds Posted: 2 years ago by squirmster
A fruity cocktail may not only be fun to drink but may count as health food.
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