Thought of the day: It takes less time to cut up an apple at your desk than to walk to the vending machine and back. On the other hand, getting away from your desk for a bit of exercise is a good thing. Therefore, cut up an apple away from your desk. ;)
Surprise, surprise: most of them are fruits or vegetables. From Best Life Magazine, “Eat these eight foods every day to cover all your nutritional bases” Spinach Yogurt Tomatoes Carrots Blueberries Black beans Walnuts Oats Luckily, since eating the same stuff every day would get boring after, I don’t know, a day, they also provide substitutes. See also my Celsius1414 post on “Lowering cholesterol with food choices”. It’s [...]
The pineapple is a native of South America and is a member of the bromeliad family. Here are some other fun facts, according to the Wikipedia Pineapple article: Hummingbirds are its natural pollinators. The fruit develops from many smaller berries fusing together. Wild pineapples will contain one seed for each flower that produced the fruit. However, most commercially [...]
My journey through the world of apples continues today with two new (to me) cultivars: The Granny Smith was super tasty, very tart, with a unique liquid juiciness to it separate from the solid fleshy texture. The skin seems a bit tougher or thicker than the Red and Golden Delicious ones I’ve tried so far, but [...]
Today’s Grown Diaries selection is a bit of a ringer. The Golden Delicious apple is one ‘cultivar’ (cultivated variety) of this ubiquitous fruit, one which is grown in the U.S. and Europe. According to this wikipedia article, it was discovered in West Virginia in 1914 and was originally called Mullin’s Yellow Seedling. Interestingly, it is not [...]
