Banana Is A Common Tropical And Subtropical Fruit Eaten By A Great Number Of People Worldwide

John Soluri 's Banana Cultures: Agriculture, Consumption and Environmental Change in Honduras and the United States, (Which for spatial and repetitive purposes, I will refer to as Banana Cultures for the remainder of the paper), introduces the reader to a world of corporate greed, consumption, and environmental change using the history of the common, everyday fruit, the banana. He explores the various political occurrences, health problems, and changes in mass media through the rise of the consumption of the banana in the United States, and around the globe.

Some of the rotting fruits can cause sickness and

Which fruit, banana, pear or apple, will mold faster? Does fruit type effect mold growth?

There is a risk of C. gattii in tropical areas and the Pacific Northwest. There are many factors that contribute to this risk. How it is transmitted, environmental causes, locations of infection, and prevention. It is important to understand the risk before traveling so you don’t become infected. To learn more about this risk we will look at areas in which the fungi exists, who’s susceptible, and how to keep from getting sick.

The consumption of fruits and vegetables have been regarded as a case contributing to the foodborne microbial disease outbreak. The contributor of the largest number of outbreak reported is melon. There were three outbreaks associated with melon including an outbreak of listeriosis in melon in 2009 which caused 9 people received treatment and 2 died, an outbreak of salmonella saintpaul in the same year, nearly 100 suspected and confirmed cases, 9 people received treatment and other suspected in outbreak of Cyclospora in 2010 resulting in at least 314 people becoming ill.There was an outbreak report of hepatitis in 2009, which is one of the largest foodborne disease outbreaks related to the consumption of fruit in Australia. This outbreak caused

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During distribution fruits and vegetables face a lot of safety issues from harvest, to washing, and to shipping. Not all

Located in the Caribbean Sea, Saint Croix has a sub-tropical island climate and is the largest of the U.S. Virgin Island(USVI) territories with the greatest percentage of arable land. Little seasonal temperature variability, low humidity, and a year-round growing season has historically offered the island significant advantages for agricultural development and production. Even with seasonal rainfall and periods of drought, the island is extremely capable of supporting a wide array of tropical fruits. These include coconuts, mangos, papayas, guavas, passion fruits, soursop, mamey apples, sugar apples,

With in this study, eighteen different 2-row and 6-row winter malting varieties were evaluated at four different locations within New York. Due to lack of disease at two of the locations, only two locations were used for the results. There were three replications of the plots arranged in randomized complete block design for this experiment. None of the plots were treated with fungicides, insecticides or spray-inoculated. All treatments were rated for diseases severity when the plants were at the hard dough

Bananas and avocados are generally stored at room temperature because they are produce items that need to ripen before consumed.

The reason I wanted to test “do bananas last longer hanging?” is so that I could know how to preserve bananas for a longer period of time. I am hoping hanging the bananas will make them last longer so that I can have bananas for more than a couple of days or so.When bananas are left on a countertop for a couple of days they start to develope a brown color. However one thing that I notice is that when I buy bananas they go bad pretty quickly.

Although banana production is a huge industry, the entire banana species is facing an increasingly

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) is the fourth highest produced crop in the world and the most important non-cereal food crop, with world production estimated to be over 350 million tons in 2013 (http://faostat.fao.org). Potato is a versatile crop, and is utilized as not only food and feed but also in industrial materials and fuels (Kikuchi et al. 2015). Potato is becoming the most important crop in developing countries and its production is expanding more rapidly than that of most other crops primarily because of increasing industrialization (Guchi et al. 2015). Potatoes in India are grown under varied climatic conditions ranging from tropics, subtropics to temperate highlands. Consequently, the spectrum of insect-pests and diseases is very large and limit potato production upto 85% depending upon the weather/region. Fungal disease plays a pivotal role for yield losses. Late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans (oomycete pathogen), is the most destructive disease of potato worldwide (CIP, 1989). During the last two decades, disease has increased globally and the average global crop loss of potato has increased upto 21.8% (Fry and Goodwin, 1997; James, 1981; Forbes, 2012). Worldwide losses due to late blight are estimated to exceed $5 billion annually and thus the pathogen is regarded as a threat to global food security (Latijnhouwers et al. 2004).

Ascorbic acid concentrations were determined by iodometric titrations of mango juice after being exposed to increased heat for different durations of time, 3 minutes and 5 minutes, to determine if the duration of heating of a juice sample increases the rate of decomposition of Ascorbic acid. Results showed that ascorbic acid concentrations after being exposed to increased heat for 5 minutes were lowest. This demonstrates that an increased exposure to heat increases the rate of ascorbic acid degradation.

The market size for tropical fruit is really large, bananas being the fifth most important agricultural commodity in world trade after cereals, sugar, coffee and cocoa. Six countries (India, Brazil, Ecuador, Philippines, China and Indonesia) account for 55% of total world production. Bananas and pineapples are common fruits, on average 10 kg of bananas are consumed by each of the 350 million EU citizens; therefore it is not really