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BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA RECLASSIFIES MANY VEGETABLES AS FRUITS

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Fruits or vegetables?
Fruits or vegetables?

ST. LOUIS, Missouri (The Adobo Chronicles) – The next time your mom or grandma says to you, “Eat your vegetables,” she will no longer be referring to broccoli, carrots, zucchini, tomatoes or asparagus.

Today, the Botanical Society of America (BSA) formally ended the decades-long debate among bonanists, nutritionists and culinary experts about whether some plant produce are considered fruits or vegetables.

It an official memorandum approved by majority of its members, BSA ruled that vegetables that are not “leafy green ” will now be officially classified as fruits. These include, but are not limited to, broccoli, carrots, corn, asparagus, zucchini, tomatoes, bell peppers green beans, celery stalks, eggplants, okra, pototoes, chayote, even some varieties of cabbage and lettuce.

So next time you are told to eat your vegetables, your mom could be referring to kale, spinach, green lettuce, collards, chards and green onions.

 

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NOT SO FAST ABOUT FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, THEY CAUSE CANCER TOO!

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imageLONDON, Great Britain (The Adobo Chronicles) – Consumers the world over abruptly abandoned bacon, hotdogs and processed meat in their diets and quickly turned to eating fruits and vegetables.  This, after the World Health Organization confirmed last week that processed meat causes cancer.

But wait, are fruits and vegetables really safe?

Not according to a new study by researchers at Glasgow University. They have linked increased use of nitrate fertilisers — used in the production of fruits and vegetables  — to an alarming rise in gullet cancer in Britain.

The disease – which affects three times more men than women – kills more than 3,000 people in the UK every year, a threefold increase over the past 20 years. It is more common than stomach cancer.

The increase has puzzled researchers. But Glasgow University researchers, led by Professor Kenneth McColl, have discovered a link between nitrates in fruit and vegetables and gullet cancer.

‘It appears that the mass production of vegetables in the Western world since the last world war may be the underlying factor that has led to such huge increases in this form of cancer,’ he added.

McColl said it was unlikely that organic food would be any healthier, because it also contained substantial levels of nitrate, some of which came from natural fertilisers such as manure.

His research has so far revealed that green and root vegetables contain the highest levels of nitrate.

Following the release of the Glasgow study, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that people stop eating meats, fruits and vegetables altogether and stick to a liquid diet — like purified water and beer.

WHO also suggested that if people can’t survive on liquids, then they should go on a paleo diet, one that is based on how stone age humans ate and survived.

 

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VEGETARIANS AND CATHOLICS STUNNED BY NEW RESEARCH CONFIRMING THAT PLANTS HAVE FEELINGS

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IMG_6326ST. LOUIS, Missouri (The Adobo Chronicles) – A new study from the University of Missouri confirms what botanists have long suspected: plants and vegetables have feelings just like humans and animals.

The research shows that plants can sense when they are being eaten and send out defense mechanisms to try to stop it from happening.

The study was carried out on thale cress, which is closely related to broccoli, kale, mustard greens, and other siblings of the brassica family and is popular for science experiments.

According to the research study, the thale cress produces mustard oils that are mildly toxic when eaten and sends them throughout its leaves to try to keep the predators away. The research also revealed that when the plants feel or hear “munching vibrations” from caterpillar and other plant-eating organisms, they send out extra mustard oils.

This new finding is greatly disturbing to vegans and vegetarians, most of whom practice this lifestyle because they cannot fathom the thought of animals being killed or butchered for food. “Now what alternative do we have if we can’t eat meat or vegetables,” said one practicing vegan living in San Francisco’s Haight District.

Meanwhile, Catholics around the globe are anxiously awaiting a pronouncement from Pope Francis, who, in just the last several weeks, said that all animals go to heaven.  The question they want answered by The Vatican is: do plants and vegetables go to heaven too?