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unusual facts about Fruits



Alucita objurgatella

The larvae feed on the fruits, flowers and seeds Psydrax odorata.

Asinan

Asinan Bogor: The fruit asinan of Bogor city, West Java is preserved tropical fruits, such as raw mango, water apple, papaya, ambarella, jicama, nutmeg and pineapple served in sweet, hot and sour vinegar and chili sauce, sprinkled with peanuts.

Attis

Attis was also a Phrygian god of vegetation, and in his self-mutilation, death, and resurrection he represents the fruits of the earth, which die in winter only to rise again in the spring.

Bennett's tree-kangaroo

It lives almost completely on the leaves of a wide range rainforest trees, notably Schefflera actinophylla (the Umbrella Tree), vines, ferns and various wild fruits.

Bioenhancer

Quercetin, a flavonoid from fruits and leaves, acts like curcumin and piperine.

Brown rot

Monilinia fructicola, a plant pathogenic fungus, the cause of brown rot in stone fruits, such as plums, peaches, nectarines and almonds

Buddy Fruits

Buddy Fruits is also involved in its local community and supports the Miami Hurricanes and the Miami Dolphins.

C21H34O2

Bilobol, an alkylresorcinol found in Gingko biloba fruits

C8H5NO2

Indole-5,6-quinone, a chemical present in the browning reaction of fruits

Caquetá Seedeater

As other Sporophila seedeaters, it mainly feeds on seeds, but has also been recorded feeding on stems, leaves and fruits (e.g. Cecropia).

Chuck Billy 'n' Folks

Lau (Nhô Lau) - Mr. Lau owns an orchard filled with Apple Guavas, which are frequently "visited" by Chuck and his friends, who steal his fruits.

Cnidoscolus texanus

The fruits are prickly 3-seeded capsules and the seeds are consumed by Rio Grande Wild Turkeys and Mourning Doves.

Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff

Ever since the conclusion of the Great Northern War, Danish statesmen had been occupied in harvesting its fruits, namely, the Gottorp portions of Schleswig definitely annexed to Denmark in 1721 by the Treaty of Nystad, and endeavouring to bring about a definitive general understanding with the House of Gottorp as to their remaining possessions in Holstein.

Deinocheirus

The Russian paleontologist Rozhdestvensky compared the forelimbs of Deinocheirus to sloths, leading him to hypothesize that Deinocheirus was a specialized climbing dinosaur, that fed on fruits and leaves and perhaps also eggs and any small animals found in trees.

Essie Honiball

Health writers including Robert Gray, Arnold Ehret, Morris Krok and Johnny Lovewisdom, have described how nuts and seeds are not botanically fruits, and too concentrated to form part of the optimum fruitarian diet.

Eurocracy

The participants presented their 'Fruits of Reflection' to the Vice-President on the European Commission Margot Wallström and to the Vice-President of the European Parliament Alejo Vidal-Quadras.

Fruits of Fascism

The Fruits of Fascism: Postwar Prosperity in Historical Perspective is a 1990 book by a professor of International Affairs, Simon Reich.

George Fruits

If claimed earlier year of birth and the subsequent service record are correct George Fruits joined the militia belonging to Captain George Miars (of Washington County, Pennsylvania) as a private on November 2, 1781, aged 19.

Gershom Craft House

Craft planted over 100 different species of fruits on the farm and named it after the Roman goddess of fruit trees, Pomona.

Gray snub-nosed monkey

It feeds on a variety of young leaves, leaf and flower buds, bark, fruits, certain petioles (e.g. Fagus longipetiolata), seeds (e.g. Prunus spp. and Sorbus spp.), and insect larvae.

Green Aracari

Its diet consists mostly of fruit, including the fruits of Cecropia trees and the palm Oenocarpus bacaba.

Hierarchy of genres

An influential formulation of 1667 by André Félibien, a historiographer, architect and theoretician of French classicism became the classic statement of the theory for the 18th century:Celui qui fait parfaitement des païsages est au-dessus d'un autre qui ne fait que des fruits, des fleurs ou des coquilles.

Indian wild ass

The animal feeds on grass, leaves and fruits of plant, crop, Prosopis pods, and saline vegetation.

Juan Pablo Duarte

American patriots in arms, like Simón Bolivar in South America, immediately reaped the fruits of the metropolis' destabilization, and began pushing back colonial troops, like what happened in the Battle of Carabobo, and then in the consequential Battle of Ayacucho.

Keissleriella rara

The species fruits exclusively on dead or dying standing culms of the saltmarsh plant Juncus roemerianus.

Kripik

Almost all type of fruits, nuts and tubers can be made as kripik, such as kripik singkong (cassava cracker) and kripik pisang (banana cracker), kripik apel (apple cracker) from Malang in East Java, also kripik nangka (jackfruit cracker), kripik salak (snake fruit cracker), kripik durian from Medan, kripik talas (taro cracker), kripik ubi (sweet potato cracker), and kripik sukun (breadfruit cracker).

Lauraceae

The fruits are an important food source for birds, on which some Palaeognathae are highly dependent.

Legend of Tirumala

In the Kali Yuga, rishis performing yagna sought the advise of celestial sage Narada on which of the Trimurti should be selected for offering the fruits of the yagna.

Makkhali Gosala

Samaññaphala Sutta: The Fruits of the Contemplative Life (DN 2).

Marpha

The village is the apple capital in the nation, and Marpha brandy is produced from local fruits.

Nanaji Deshmukh

Within three years, his hard work bore fruits and almost 250 Sangh Shakhas commenced in and around Gorakhpur.

Opata people

The Opata also hunted game, especially deer, with bows and arrows, fished in the rivers with spears and nets and gathered wild foods, such as Chenopodium and cactus leaves and fruits.

Palm nut

The immature fruits of Arenga pinnata, a canned/bottled food sold commercially in syrup

Pediocactus knowltonii

Rodents, especially mice, eagerly consume the fruits, causing seed production to be low.

Pomona Envisions the Future

As a locomotive approaches the end of the first section of the wall the landscape ends in trees that wrap around the corner of the reveal wall and the narrative picks up with a nod to Mexican muralists shown as a Diego Rivera influenced trompe l'oeil relief of laborers supporting a bowl containing the fruits of labor.

Pulasan

Morton, Julia F., "Fruits of Warm Climates" ; Creative Resource Systems, Inc.

Rhus dentata

The ripe fruits are eaten by birds, while the foliage is food for the larvae of the Pepper Tree Moth Bombycomorpha bifascia.

Rose oxide

Rose oxide also contributes to the flavor of some fruits such as lychee and Gewürztraminer.

South Beach Diet

Cindy Moore, RD, a director of nutrition therapy at Cleveland Clinic and a former spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association claimed that although the diet meets the important criteria for a healthy diet: it emphasizes vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and lean protein while not omitting any major food group, phase 1 can throw the body's electrolyte balance off because most of the weight loss is water weight.

Stephen Currie

Stephen Currie is lost man who was found after 32 days surviving eating wild fruits and freshwater mussels in the bush in Queensland, Australia.

Sunkist Fun Fruits

Advertising for the dinosaur shapes featured the "Fruitasaurus," a friendly Brontosaurus who stockpiled dinosaur shaped Fun Fruits.

Advertising on television and comic books for Fun Fruits usually featured characters named "Tickle Trees" who would cause those who approached them to laugh uncontrollably.

Supercharge Me

Norwood, inspired by Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me, ate only raw vegan foods (i.e. uncooked fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds) for thirty days and documented the changes to her health.

Syzygium cumini

In Brazil, where it was introduced from India during Portuguese colonization, it has dispersed spontaneously in the wild in some places, as its fruits are eagerly sought by various native birds such as thrushes, tanagers and the Great Kiskadee.

Thakeri

Silver Oak trees which are grown for shade in the coffee estates are sold as timber which fetches the planters good revenue.A lot of citrus fruits are grown like orange,lime,sweetlime and many other varieties of this family.

Vaccinium floribundum

It is sold at some markets and is used for a dish celebrating the Day of the Dead along with spices and other chopped fruits.

Wild melon

Cucumis myriocarpus a plant invasive in Australia with fruits smaller than a golf ball

Wild plum

Amelanchier, a genus in the Rosaceae producing small fruits lacking a pit

Yellow plum

Ximenia americana, a small sprawling tree of woodlands native to Australia and Asia whose fruits are sometimes called yellow plums


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