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Eggplant parmesan is a classic Italian dish that spares you the pasta when you need a break from it. See our tip for ...
The fruits have ripened and there is a bounty to harvest. I write not of citrus but of palms. Specifically my topic this week concerns fruits of our native desert fan palm, Washingtonia filifera ...
The palm tree's fruit, known as aguaje, is widely used in food and drink preparation, and is an important part of the north Peruvian economy. Where currently harvested, sale of its fruit ...
In this episode on Tekniq, we shall follow the journey of harvesting and transporting fruits from oil palm trees, we observe ...
In 2010, Berlin's Botanical Garden received a rare and precious gift from the Seychelles: a nut from the Coco de Mer palm, prized around the world for centuries. Now that they've managed to sprout ...
If you read ingredient labels, you’ll see palm and palm kernel oil everywhere: in bread, chocolate, frozen pizza – even soap, toothpaste and cosmetics. No wonder the oil palm tree, whose fruit ...
In Malaysia, which accounts for around 33% of global palm oil exports, the average yield of palm fruit bunches in Jan-June fell to 7.15 tonnes per hectare from 7.85 a year ago.
Ripening Palm Fruit, Hanging In Great Clusters on California’s native fan palms (Washingtonia filifera), can be seen (and tasted) this month. The black, pea-sized fruit consists of a deliciously ...
Palm oil is different from most agricultural commodities because the raw harvested product, fresh fruit bunches, must be processed within 48 hours or it will spoil.
Small palm plantation owner unloading palm fruits at a collecting station By the end of the day, roughly 80 tons of fruit will have accumulated. The haul is then delivered to a mill.