Sentences with phrase «cultivated for human consumption»

It has been cultivated for human consumption in these two countries for thousands of years.

Thought to be originated in the Mediterranean basin, fenugreek is an annual herb that rarely can be seen growing in the wild, since it is intensively cultivated for human consumption.

Not exact matches

While the manufacturer of Quorn ™ cultivates strains of Fusarium venenatum via fermentation into a mycoprotein dough for human consumption, farmers try to fight off Fusarium graminearum as this pervasive fungal pathogen invades multiple crops and threatens global food security.

In realistic terms, any major effort to supply additional plant protein for human consumption in the U.S. would require dismantling the nation's agricultural system, since most of American agriculture is directly or indirectly involved in producing livestock either through direct grazing on grasslands or by growing feed on cultivated land.

With hundreds of hybrid long pumpkin varieties in existence, these unique cucurbits are cultivated specifically for human consumption.

But that turned out to be not just environmentally destructive but was also arguably responsible for the spike in food prices that soon followed, as farmers turned away from cultivating corn for human consumption to cultivating it for ethanol production.

Recently, we've seen how designers have been creating new kinds of biologically inspired products, from jewelry built by larvae, to countertop incubators that cultivate insects for human consumption, to dead beetle bioplastic.