Questions tagged [fruit]
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Are chemicals used to ripen fruit in developing countries harmful to the health of consumers?
Note: there are some answers to this question on Chemistry.SE, but I prefer a sceptical approach here.
I ask this question in connection with a post on Facebook (in Indonesia), which asked:
Hi everyone, I bought some mangoes today and the seller…
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Can an extra internal refrigerator light increase the vitamin C content of fruit?
My wife yesterday bought a new refrigerator for our house. She choose a refrigerator which within the sales blurb has the following claim.
光波增鲜
生成5种仿自然光波，让采摘后的果蔬继续光合作用，叶绿素、VC含量比存放普通冰箱高30%以上。
Translating that into English we get:
Fresh by light
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Does mixing watermelons with alcohol cause liver damage?
Recently there's been an influx of articles in Polish media warning against consuming alcohol and watermelons (titles via Google Translate):
Never combine with alcohol. You can damage your liver
Watermelon and alcohol are a bad combination. Here's…
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Does drinking after eating fruits cause a belly-ache?
As a child I was always told not to drink after eating lots of fruits, especially cherries, as it would supposedly cause a belly-ache. Not only I never dared to try drinking after eating cherries, I see this to be observed quite strictly by most…
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Do lemons help cure cancer?
This morning I read an article on Facebook (in German) about the huge health benefits of lemons - and not just the juice, but the whole lemon, especially the skin.
Several other sites make similar claims. This Dynamic Health Now site recommends…
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Has selective breeding increased the sugar level of fruits?
It has been claimed that selective breeding has resulted in fruit that is high in sugar and just as bad as eating candy.
Examples:
They have selectively bred fruit trees
to much higher (sweeter sells better)
sugar content fruit then your
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Does eating bananas prevent eyelid twitching?
I have heard many times growing up that if your eyelid is twitching, it means you need more potassium in your diet, and therefore should eat more bananas.
A quick search online finds a variety of recommendations for treating a twitchy eyelid,…
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What hair-care benefits come from adding fruit or fruit-extracts to shampoo?
Shampoo manufacturers seem to be very keen to tell us about the all the fruit and fruit-extracts they put in their product. I suspect that the hair-care actually comes from the other ingredients they put in it.
Is shampoo with added fruit really…
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Is eating watermelon after milk bad?
It’s a local “myth” here in Iran that eating watermelon and milk (or any fatty food in general) is bad (as in it can cause stomachache or a bloated stomach etc). How true is this?
My web searches around suggest this myth also exists in India, and…
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Should we prefer organic lemon and orange peels?
In many recipes, when it comes to add some lemon (or orange) zests, the authors advise to choose an organic fruit, because of the pesticides.
I know there is no proof that non-organic fruits and vegetables are more dangerous than organic ones, but I…
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Are today's vegetables so much nutrient poor compared to vegetables from many years ago?
On the web there is plenty of material like this one claiming that the vegetables we buy today are much less nutritious than vegetables from 40/70/100 years ago.
8 oranges today have the same nutrients as 1 orange 100 years ago
There is also…
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Do juicers preserve the nutritional quality of fruit and vegetables?
I heard that fruits and vegetable have much more vitamins when we eat them in normal way (biting) then when we use juicer and drink only the juice.
Is it true that juice from fresh fruit and vegetable is less quality and most of the healthy material…
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Do certain fruit combinations ripen faster?
It is commonly claimed that certain fruits (e.g. apples, bananas, high-ethylene fruits and their dastardly "ripening hormone") make other fruits ripen faster. These claims appear on mainstream media and are often repeated by experts, but they are…
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Grapefruit for weight loss?
There seem to be many people that claim grapefruit, in one form or another, helps dieters with weight loss.
Is there any good academically-rigorous evidence to support any of these claims?
Some of the claims:
People who ate half of a grapefruit…
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Are fruits better than processed fruit juices?
I had a discussion with a friend of mine. He claimed that (processed) fruit juices from any organization (say Tropicana) are not at par with naturally occurring fruits, rather they are worse. He said that
Drinking fruit juice would cause it to be…
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