There might be several reasons for this. A first explanation that has been put forward many times has to do with the typical lifestyle of a plant. Plants are sessile and cannot escape enemies or uncomfortable conditions. They are stuck in place and have therefore developed many strategies that...
How many calories are in eight cups of cereal? The nutritional chart on the side of a box of a cereal states that there are 84 calories in a 3/4 cup serving. How many calories are in 6 cups of the cereal? How many 2/3-cup servings are in 6 cup...
Packaged goods—such as crackers, breakfast cereals, and margarines—follow a typical manufacturing journey. Raw ingredients are shipped from supplier to manufacturer, processed, combined, and cooked or baked (with varying degrees of automation along the assembly line). The final products are packaged...
Although over 98% of children ate cereal foods on the day of the survey, 4-7-year-old girls and 8-11-year-old boys were not eating enough, especially from the 'nutritious cereal' group, including breakfast cereals, bread, pasta, rice and nutritious grain-based snacks. To meet nutrient ...
Are ultraprocessed foods harmful? Here's the tricky part. Many studies suggest that diets high in such foods are linked to negative health outcomes. But these kinds of studies can't say whether the foods are the cause of the negative effects—or whether there's something else about the peop...
Many plant-associated microorganisms living in the rhizosphere (e.g., plant symbionts) are promoted by diversified crop rotations and they can interact with free-living saprotrophs and consequently affect C use efficiency (CUE) (Fig. S1; Bedini et al., 2013). Diversified crop rotations also ...
Many of thesefood additives have been shown to do harm to our health.In 1958 the government passed the Delaney Clause Food Additives Amendment whichprohibited companies from adding known harmful chemicals to our food. But in spite of this, thereare still dangerous chemicals that are still being...
Because few foods naturally contain vitamin D, dairy, cereals, and orange juice are often fortified with it. Your body makes vitamin D from the sun, so you can also get it with 10-15 minutes of sunshine from the midday sun daily. But some doctors caution against any unprotected sun ...
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When you’re having qurs (that’s “breakfast” in Amharic, Ethiopia’s official language), chances are you’ll be eating porridge. While there are many varieties and names for hot grain cereals served throughout the country, savory genfo is one of the most popular. ...