This post lists words for plants, food, and drinks, as well as some terms associated with drinks, derived from words in other languages as a result of folk etymology, a process by which speakers adopt the foreign terms after revising them by using existing elements from their native language....
When we asked our informants why they know nearly all the local Chinese names of edible plants (although they speak only Tibetan in their villages) they explained that they need them when they talk about plants with people from the neighbouring Han villages. This is a proof that fortunately ...
A carnivorous plant is any plant that is adapted for capturing and digesting insects and other animals by means of ingenious pitfalls and traps. Carnivory in plants has evolved independently about six times across several families and orders. Learn more
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After several years of propagation his tomato plants could produce, mild, meaty, and delicious fruit of immense proportions. People flocked to his door for a look at a 3 pound tomato, and he was happy to accommodate them. Never one to miss an opportunity, he sold his seedling plants for ...
These are products that were created in a laboratory. They may have started as raw materials from plants, but the plants were never grown to be eaten. Industrial corn, soybeans and the cattle raised on them have been processed and redesigned to the point where they’ve been stripped of any...
To be certain all of these goals are locked into place and the UN 2030 agenda is achieved, disrupting the fertilizer industry, food supply chain, and a rash of coincidental fires to food processing plants sure would help to seal the deal, wouldn’t it?” ...
Now more meat can come from more sources , including animal, plants and mycoprotein. Paul Shapiro is CEO of the Better Meat Company and author of “Clean Meat”. Growing micycrobial fungi called “mycoprotein”, meat is produced with the look, taste and texture of animal sourced products ...
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Compared with the South Africa scenarios, Malawi, Tanzania and Zambia scenarios explore a larger range of adaptation options from small incremental changes to the transformative, and therefore we focus on these comparisons in the ‘Agricultural transformations for nutrition security’ section to assess th...