Sentences with phrase «fleshy fruits»

One avocado contains about 10 grams of fiber — or 1 tablespoon of the soft, fleshy fruit contains 2 grams.

Growing fleshy fruits like tomatoes, potatoes and especially grains like wheat or corn require so much more light energy that it wouldn't be feasible to grow indoors.»

Any firm fleshy fruit can be used, such as under - ripe bananas, carambolas, Asian pears, and even some vegetables like jicama or cucumber.

So, instead of going the traditional hummus route, I decided that a simple mixture of white beans, lemon juice and his favorite fleshy fruit fit the bill perfectly for an early dinner «nosh» before our poker party.

That pattern may be exacerbated by the deer because these plants produce fleshy fruits that deer eat, and then the seeds of the plant are spread in their feces, Averill noted.

They are about the size of a cherry and are located in fleshy fruit at the top of the plant, where only an animal the size of an elephant should be able to reach them.

However, insects are not known to consume fleshy fruits and to disperse seeds after gut passage.

In the lab, the wetas chowed down on all 19 kinds of fleshy fruits tested.

Strawberries, apples, melons, bananas and many other fleshy fruits, share some characteristics with tomatoes, so information about the genes and pathways involved in fruit ripening can potentially be applied to them, helping to improve food quality, food security and reduce costs.

The sequences of these genes and their arrangement on the chromosomes are described in the Nature article, «The tomato genome sequence provides insights into fleshy fruit evolution,» which is information that allows researchers to move at a quicker pace and plant breeders to produce new varieties with specific desired characteristics.

Tomatoes serve as a model plant for studying fleshy fruit biology, but decades of research has only focused on the outer part of the fruit, and mostly on ripening stages.

Manga (Mangifera indica): Mangos, with their yellow fleshy fruit, have a very high carbohydrate content and are quite nutritious.

The lower part is a large, soft, yellow, juicy, peer - shaped structure for eating purposes that has all the characteristics of a delicious fleshy fruit.

America's beloved fleshy fruit belonging to the Rose family, Apples flourish in varieties numbering into the thousands with tastes and textures that range from soft & sweet to crisp & sour and everything in between, colors spanning the red - orange - yellow - green spectrum with wild variance, especially upon the revival of heirloom / heritage strains from apple orchards near and far.

Her paintings capture fleshy fruits and soft body contours with a cartoon - like expressiveness.

They all produce large, fleshy fruits with internal seeds and a hard, outer covering that is sometimes referred to as a rind.

Additionally, the small, fleshy fruits can't be stored for an extended length of time when they are fresh, so it's likely the cherries you see in a store were harvested only a few days ago.

Like berries, the fleshy fruit abounds in anthocyanins (a type of phytonutrient), but it also delivers a uniquely powerful dose of anti-inflammatory compounds.

It produces long, thick, smooth, fleshy fruits.

Consequently, the findings strongly suggest that the fleshy fruit - bearing M. humile is considerably specialized for seed dispersal by adult cockroaches enabling the plant to steadily disperse minute seeds across the forest floor.

Its fleshy fruit contains hundreds of seeds that are very small (ca. 0.3 mm long and 0.2 mm wide) and have a hard testa (seed coat).

Agoutis scrape the fleshy fruit off seeds to make it hard for other animals to discover where they are stashing the seeds.

U.S. labs determined that the early phase of the Gonur settlement dated to 2000 B.C. — five centuries earlier than Sarianidi had initially postulated — and that the people grew a wide variety of crops, including wheat, barley, lentils, grapes, and fleshy fruits.

The researchers do note, however, that even though provisioned food represented only a small percentage of their overall diet, the fleshy fruits provided to the monkeys may be an important fallback food.

In addition, most of the seeds on Guam fell with their fleshy fruit covering the seed, whereas many of the seeds on islands with birds had been ingested and excreted.

However, if you're not quite ready to give up on these sweet, fleshy fruits, there are a few guidelines that can help you keep them in your diet.

Tomato plants can grow up to six feet (2 m) tall and half as wide, producing a vine - like stem with lobed, hairy leaves that wrap around other plants to support the weight of its fleshy fruit.

The pomegranate tree bears large, fleshy fruit that is packed with antioxidants and other nutrients.

The fleshy fruit of apples, cherries, peaches, pears and plums is safe and healthy for your dog.

Apricot - The fleshy fruit of apricots can make a good treat for cats and dogs.

Polyuric droppings may indicate disease (diabetes or kidney disease), but more often they result from increased water consumption or consumption of large amounts of fleshy fruits and vegetables.

Although the major part of their diet is animal flesh, possums are tempted by dry dog food berries, corn, and fleshy fruits.

Over the years, she has explored the structural and expressive possibilities of spectral light on ordinary objects: blown glass, plastic bags and wrappers, flower petals, ribbon candy, gummy bears, fleshy fruits, etc..