Daily Mail: These bizarre Buddha-shaped pears were invented by a farmer in China who is planning to export his novel idea to the UK. Hao Xianzhang has created 10,000 of the mini marvels at his orchard this season and said he plans to take the fruits of his labour to Europe. A woman demonstrates a […]
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Since almost all fruits contain a positive nutritional attribute, every fruit is super in it’s own way. But that doesn’t stop some from making a killing in the “superfruit” niche. BusinessWeek has more: Once a niche industry, the “super-premium” juice business, more focused on healthy, exotic nectars than the kinds of juices purveyed by Welch’s
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The Fruit Box is an Australian company that delivers fresh fruit to corporate breakrooms as a traditional alternative to the standard fare of unhealthy snacks. Ten years ago, the company had just two deliver vans, 280 customers and less than two full-time staff members. Today, the company has more than fifty vans, and delivers 600,000
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Springwise: The marketing company spent two years researching potential methods for creating a piece of fruit that mimicked the box shape of Camp’s juice cartons and eventually developed a mold that could be fitted around a piece of fruit as it began to ripen on its tree. Over 1,000 lemons, guavas, passion fruit, papayas, apples
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Birmingham Mail Nigel Baker and Eleanor Hoad came up with the idea Urban Harvest, a community juice and preserves business, after years of watching surplus fruit go to waste in gardens across the city. Their new enterprise, which aims to reduce food waste, slash transport miles and encourage healthy eating, will see tonnes of apples,
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If you think farmers only grow things like apples, and oranges and peaches, you have no idea. Tablet Magazine (A New Read on Jewish Life) has up an interesting article about a farmer in California central valley — not far from me — who grows etrogs. An etrog is a yellow citron used by Jews
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Instead of peeling the label off your apple, next time you might just wash it. Amron’s Vanishing Fruitwash Labels are labels that dissolve into an organic fruit wash that helps remove wax, pesticides and dirt. More features: Washing turns label into Fruit Soap No stickers to peel off and throw away No expensive produce wash
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It seems like every medium-sized town in America has at least one juice shop. What would drive someone to open their own? When Flo Eysler looks out his window, he doesn’t see natural juice everywhere. Instead, he sees pandas and pagodas and food covered in oil. But in his mind’s eye, he thinks he might
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Since almost all fruits contain a positive nutritional attribute, every fruit is super in it’s own way. But that doesn’t stop some from making a killing in the “superfruit” niche. BusinessWeek has more: Once a niche industry, the “super-premium†juice business, more focused on healthy, exotic nectars than the kinds of juices purveyed by Welch’s
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Daily Mail: These bizarre Buddha-shaped pears were invented by a farmer in China who is planning to export his novel idea to the UK. Hao Xianzhang has created 10,000 of the mini marvels at his orchard this season and said he plans to take the fruits of his labour to Europe. A woman demonstrates a
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