Sentences with phrase «of plant matter»

The use of fruits and vegetables is particularly common in the case of dry food, which requires a certain amount of plant matter to bind the kibble.

Both of those fruits contain twice as much sugar as cranberries in their raw state, but their quantities of plant matter and fiber are low.

They can even be combined with the burning of plant matter to create a «carbon negative» fuel that when burned removes more CO2 from the air than it puts in.

A gallon of gas represents roughly 100 tons of plant matter, the amount that exists in 40 acres of wheat.

This causes excess growth of plant matter and depletion of oxygen levels in the water.

Furthermore, these large clusters of plant matter are the perfect breeding grounds for mosquitoes, more bad news for those who visit lakes.

«Beyond Meat's ability to replicate meaty layers out of plant matter is among the company's greatest trade secrets — what puts it in a different category, perhaps, than the long line of faux meats that have come before.»

It's kind of a dumb distinction, so just eat lots of plant matter that's fairly low in calories and high in micronutrients and fiber.

Even their ancient cousin the wolf is omnivorous, engaging in the eating of plant matter with similar acts of grazing on grasses, as well as eating the plant matter out of the guts of their herbivorous prey.

Once the tincture has reached your desired strength (taste - test after a couple of weeks; the flavors of the plant matter should be discernible through the alcohol), strain out the solids and discard them, then bottle the liquid.

Something small, green, round and made of plant matter:

No doubt some dinosaurs, weighing several dozen metric tons, could not lie on their eggs to incubate them, but they may have used other external heat sources, for example by covering their clutch with a mound of plant matter, which would have provided heat as it decomposed.

Other benefits, says the EPA, include: providing amenity space for tenants (in effect replacing a yard or patio); reducing building heating and cooling costs due to the buffering effect of the plant matter and soil; filtering pollutants like carbon dioxide out of the air and heavy metals out of rainwater; and increasing bird habitat in otherwise built - up areas.

Cellulose, a complex carbohydrate made up of glucose strands, comprises nearly half of all plant matter.

This narrow, muscular tube attached to the large intestine served as a special area to digest cellulose when the human diet consisted more of plant matter than animal protein.

Learning how to control the composition of secondary cell walls is an area of intense interest among advanced biofuel researchers because the structures make up the bulk of the plant matter that is broken down into biofuels.

Dietary fibre encompasses all parts of plant matter that can't be digested or absorbed.

The hemp seed contains no high inducing THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) like the buds do, save for the small bits of plant matter that may adhere to the seeds during harvest and processing.

These are highly concentrationed volatile oils of plant matter.

In these case of the microbes mentioned above, their known ability to assist in the degradation of plant matter — and thus the production of beneficial short chain fatty acids in the process — may be contributing to our epidemic of reduced pathogen resistance and gut permeability (think leaky gut) in their absence.

Anyone who has ever raised a rabbit is aware of the bland, boring bunny diet; the foods that rabbits eat to sustain themselves are mostly pieces of plant matter that we would consider to be utterly inedible.

Their digestive systems are set up with all of the equipment necessary to extract nutrition from meat, but much of the plant matter that they consume will pass through their bodies largely undigested.

There are different reasons for adding the different types of plant matter to the food, including one of economy... plant matter can be used as a cheap filler to add bulk to the food.

Dogs, who descend from the same animal bears do, need a good amount of plant matter in their diets.

There is a definite excitement around the idea of plant matter - or just simply recyclable junk chunks - for casing, and it is most definitely worth a brainstorm session.

This particular idea uses hay, but I would think a wide range of plant matter and other recycled / recyclables could be used.

Flannigan refers to it as «legacy carbon,» an accumulation of centuries of plant matter that sequesters vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere.

Bioethenol — Bioethenol is ethanol derived from the fermentation of plant matter (such as corn, switchgrass, grains or sugarcane).

Small fragments of milfoil were chopped up by boat propellers and then floated to different parts of the lake, quickly growing to form masses of plant matter.

With a lack of milfoil awareness, lake communities face insufficient funds for these projects, and improperly supervised harvesting can allow fragments of plant matter to break off of the milfoil plants.

«Beyond Meat's ability to replicate meaty layers out of plant matter is among the company's greatest trade secrets — what puts it in a different category, perhaps, than the long line of faux meats that have come before.»

As usual, make sure you eat a lot of plant matter, if it is minor, try a little lemon juice 10 minutes before you eat (~ 1 - 2 Tbsp), which will ease digestion.

These were just a few of the huge animals that could eat huge amounts of plant matter, accelerating the release of nutrients through digestion and carrying these nutrients away from feeding areas to higher ground through their deposit of feces, urine and, upon death, decomposing bodies.

Elk and grasshoppers also have more in common than you probably imagine: they both consume large quantities of plant matter.

The expense of artemisinin extraction lies largely in the amount of plant matter that needs to be processed.

«Beyond Meat's ability to replicate meaty layers out of plant matter is among the company's greatest trade secrets — what puts it in a different category, perhaps, than the long line of faux meats that have come before.»

In response to criticism to how a meat - free diet is unnatural, PETA says that animals in the wild ingest a considerable amount of plant matter and going vegan is partially about being environmentally fair.

Realistically, however, dogs are omnivores just like people, in that they thrive ideally with a mixed diet consisting of both plant matter and meat, making the craving of plant matter like grass, not entirely unusual after all.

That's a lot of plant matter.

Dogs also get a source of plant matter from their prey, unless you are feeding your dogs whole prey with bellies full of plant matter you may need to supply it in the form of cooked vegetables.