The cultivation and trade of the beans for the drink began in Arabic countries in the 14th century and spread throughout Egypt, Syria, and Turkey. It’s said not a single coffee plant existed outside of Arabia or Africa u...
【题目】Who would have thought that there was any connection between a cup of coffee and a bird , butterfly, or even a bat? Such seems to be the case, however, as methods for growing coffee plants have gradually changed over time .Coffee plants were first discovered growing in Africa ...
根据第三段"Over the past 30 to 40 years,people developed a new kind of coffee plant,one which grows well in open sunlight.Sun-grown coffee produced two times more coffee than shade-grown coffee in the same amount of time and space.As a result,the growing need for coffee makes the sun...
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The individual who discovered how to make chocolate is lost to time, but it was probably someone in South America thousands of years ago. The earliest evidence for the use of cacao — the fermented, dried seed of the fruit that grows on the South American Theobroma cacao tree — dates to...
Researchers from Brigham Young University discovered that fathers are in a unique position to help their adolescent children learn persistence. BYU professors Laura Padilla-Walker and Randal Day arrived at these findings after following 325 American families over several years. And over time,the ...
while in the 17th and 18th centuries French and British vintners discovered how to make sparkling wine by adding extra sugar to the bottle and initiating a second round of fermentation. And in certain parts of the world, rare geological conditions conspire to produce springs of naturally sparkling...
Mohammed Ali, Plant Genome Saviour Community Award winner and pepper coffee conservationist from Kalpetta, says only a switch to organic farming can bring about productive changes. "The idea should be to improve soil fertility at a low cost." ...
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener that was discovered in 1965 by American chemist James Schlatter. It was first approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 1974. Aspartame is about 200 times sweeter than regular table sugar with lower calorie levels, and does not have the ...
James Shapiro and Ray Rajotte In 1921, Canadian researcher Frederick Banting and colleagues discovered insulin, providing the first treatment for people with type I diabetes—a discovery that earned him a Nobel Prize. It's only fitting, then, that nearly 80 years later the next leap forward in...