Blogs Posts in Gossips category; 349 blog posts

Food inflation surges to 8.74 pct

Reversing a three-week declining trend, food inflation shot up to 8.74 per cent for the week ended April 9 from 8.28 per cent in the previous week on account of expensive fruits, protein-based items and onions, according to the official [...]

Posted On : Apr, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

The Hindu Delicious drinks: With seasonal fruits. Photo: KR ...

When blistering hot days of summer arrive, the much-awaited summer vacation brighten the scene. The hot days change anything. The eating pattern, sleeping, dressing, working, playing, travelling, shopping - yes, name it, everything chang [...]

Posted On : Apr, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Beware of glossy fruits, say experts

Mangoes, the most sought after seasonal fruit in the summer, have arrived in to markets in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu by the lorry load but corporation health official wave raised a note of caution saying the fruit may have bee [...]

Posted On : Apr, 18 2011 | Comments : 0

Solar dryers installed at farms for drying fruits

An ASF official said on Thursday that a number of fruits and vegetables were dried for value addition and preservation, which included chillies, dates, apricots and grapes. However, he said that the traditional methodology used for dryin [...]

Posted On : Apr, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Weekly Market Report - Dry Fruits

Dry Fruits: Wholesale dry fruits prices surged in the national capital during the past week largely on the back of fresh buying by stockists and retailers, buoyed by rising domestic demand due to the "Navratras" festival. Furth [...]

Posted On : Apr, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

More controversy on diet front: Is fruit making us fat?

Best-selling science writer Gary Taubes should have expected serious pushback when he recently declared to a room full of Tufts University nutritionists that Americans became fat from fruit — not burgers. Yet, he tells me, he was a [...]

Posted On : Apr, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Vegetarian diet makes you glow

Rather than a suntan, a vegetarian diet will help you score more with the opposite sex, claim scientists. Soaking up the sunrays won`t make you as popular with the opposite sex, as will a healthy glow which a fruit and vegetable diet giv [...]

Posted On : Apr, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

The Fruits of Faith in the Arab Spring

Americans seem unsure about how to view the Arab Spring. Whereas a clear majority sympathized with the protests in Egypt, the public is deeply divided on the dynamics in Libya. As the Obama administration works to explain the goals and s [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2011 | Comments : 0

Greener Auto Plastics are Possible With Bananas, Pineapples

First, researchers from the University of Warwick developed a race car made from potatoes, carrots and chocolate. Now Brazilian scientists have found a way to turn fibers from pineapples, bananas, coconut shells and other plants into pla [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Harvesting the fruits of labor

Low-cost workers will continue to propel country's economic growth but industry needs more high-caliber workers Since the adoption of the reform and opening-up policy three decades ago, China's sustained and rapid economic g [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Family Meals Matter: Tutti fruity

Many different types of fruit - especially berries, citrus and grapes - are functional foods. Functional foods have components that provide health benefits beyond basic nutrition. Fruits of all kinds taste great and are important sources [...]

Posted On : Mar, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

Fruit, vegetable prices continue to surge

Fruit and vegetable prices continue spiraling at Sunday Bazzars compelling masses to reduce their use of fruits. Despite the authorities have claimed repetitively of controlling prices shopkeepers and stallholders were seen charging the [...]

Posted On : Mar, 21 2011 | Comments : 0

Five Ways to Enjoy More Fruits and Vegetables

March is National Nutrition Month, which is a nutrition education campaign sponsored by the American Dietetic Association. In conjunction with NNM, March 9 was the fourth annual Registered Dietician Day. In fact, Lehigh Valley Diete [...]

Posted On : Mar, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Bananas: The Miracle Fruit

Most of the time when people think of super fruits or healing plants, they don’t tend to think of bananas. Yet bananas are powerhouses of protective ingredients, and are especially good for mind and mood. As Hippocrates said so fam [...]