Do you remember when artist Thomas Leveritt did a surprising experiment with his UV camera years ago, showing people on a park street in Brooklyn what their skin looked like under UV light? This time's UV camera reveals what fruit looks like under UV light. The colors are far from recognizable.
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What is the easiest way to peel the fruit that most often ends up on the plate? Did you know that most fruits such as oranges, kiwis and strawberries are peeled or de-stemmed incorrectly and therefore throw away too much of the edible part of the fruit? Watch this video to learn how to get the most out of fruit and stop peeling it the wrong way once and for all!
How to choose the right watermelon? You've probably looked forward to a juicy and sweet watermelon before, but disappointment awaited you under the skin. If you thought buying a whole watermelon was a lottery, you were wrong. With these tricks, you will master buying a watermelon so that it is always the way you want it, i.e. juicy and sweet.
Wax? Is there wax on the fruit? Surprised? First, let's clear up the following. That your apple shines like the one the witch handed to Snow White is not the fault of nature and natural ripening, but in most cases the glazing agents that the food industry (may) use to treat the surface of fruits and vegetables. With an old household trick, which we will give you below, you can clean the wax from the fruit in a natural way, and with this you can also clean it of all other impurities (pesticides, soil, dirt, etc.). But even before that, we trust you with how to check if your apple has been sprayed with wax.
Did you know that many fruits and vegetables in the past did not look like they do today? Before we "domesticated" them, some varieties looked completely different. Banana was once completely unrecognizable. Also eggplant and carrots. Would you recognize them in their wild form? Take a look at fruits and vegetables today and in the past.
Do you also have trouble peeling oranges? That's probably because you've been peeling them wrong all your life. Oranges are indispensable in our diet in late autumn and winter, but while they are a useful source of vitamins, they can be a real nuisance when it comes to peeling. Not anymore. Learn the easiest way to peel an orange and you'll peel it like a joke without leaving behind even a mess.
Not sure which seasonal fruits and vegetables are the best to buy right now? If you're looking for cooking inspiration, Tara O'Brady's Seven Spoons: My Favorite Recipes for Any and Every Day can help. These are the seasonal foods he recommends and are more interesting than making sweet potatoes. It pays to write them down on your shopping list this month.
Do you know which fruit you can use to get your energy back? Many people chronically lack this in the days when the change in clocks has shaken our biorhythms. We have to deal with fatigue and sleepiness, but luckily there is a simple way to prevent lack of energy - choosing the right fruit. Check which fruit is the one that fills you with energy.
Although the other senses are also involved in the selection of morsels, as hunters and gatherers we can't help but tend to choose the food that looks the most delicious. At TourDeFork, they played with the fact that we first choose food with our eyes and made rings with which we can also treat ourselves...
A tree that grows as many as 40 types of fruit is not some magical tree from a fairy tale or fantasy movie. The 40s fruit tree grows in the United States, and its creator is artist and professor at Syracuse University Sam Van Aken. These trees are grafted with as many as 40 different types of stone fruit, so that you can harvest apricots, plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, almonds and other fruits in the crown of a single tree. A kind of Noah's ark for fruit, you could say.
Although, for example, bananas and oranges were still exotic fruits in the time of our grandmothers, our shops and markets can no longer be imagined without such fruits and vegetables that grow on the other side of the world. Despite this, there are still specimens that have not come to us, but even more rarely than these we come across fruits and vegetables that imitate the shapes of animals, body parts and people. Have you ever seen a lemon as a banana, a strawberry as a butterfly or an apple as an owl?
Spring is perfect for fasting, detoxing and preparing the body for a lighter season. Here, our work is facilitated by a one-day fast, which should be followed by a varied spring diet with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables for a feeling of even greater lightness. Let's purify our body and treat ourselves to a one-day fast with vegetable and fruit juices and breathe easier! The body will thank us...