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• A fruit is the mature ovary of a flower which contains a seed. A vegetable is any part of a plant which is not an ovary, such as a root, tuber, stem, or leaf. That means that tomatoes, cucumbers, squashes, melons, peapods, avocado, and peppers are all fruits, not vegetables. If it’s got seeds in it, it’s a fruit. Even grains such as rice, wheat, and corn are technically fruits. Nuts are a fruit, too. It’s only our culture that has deemed anything sweet a fruit and anything not sweet a vegetable. • Many plants surround their seeds with a sweet flesh in order to encourage animals to eat it, thereby spreading the seeds. But plants need to hold onto their roots, leaves, and stems to survive, so there’s no reason to make those parts taste especially good. • Potatoes are the most popular vegetable in the U.S., followed by tomatoes (actually a fruit; see next page) and iceberg lettuce. • Most Americans eat one or two serving of fruits and veggies per day, whereas the recommended amount is five to six per day.
TOMATOES AND TAXES • As the ripened ovary of a seed plant, the tomato is technically a fruit. The Tariff Act of 1883 levied a 10% tax on vegetables being imported while
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• “An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.” -Will Rogers
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fruits entered the country duty-free. The Port Authority of New York classified tomatoes as vegetables which should be taxed, while a fruit • importer argued that tomatoes were fruits, which were not taxed. The case went all the way to the • Supreme Court. The Supreme Court declared that although tomatoes are botanically a fruit, they are more commonly used as a vegetable and should be considered a vegetable by law. The tax • remained.
SWEET POTATOES vs YAMS • Sweet potatoes are a member of the morning glory family, a vine. Potatoes are a member of the nightshade family, which is not a vine. Yams are from an African tropical vine that isn’t related to either the sweet potato or the potato but is related to lilies and grasses. Sweet potatoes have orange, red, or yellow skin and pale yellow flesh. True yams have a black or brown skin that looks like bark, and either white, purple, or red flesh. CARROTS AND EYESIGHT • It’s true that a vitamin A deficiency can cause blindness and that carrots contain vitamin A. But eating carrots won’t even begin to affect your eyesight unless your eyesight is bad specifically because of a vitamin A deficiency. Actually, carrots don’t exactly contain vitamin A; they contain carotene, which the liver converts to vitamin A. By the way: Carotene is the chemical which makes carrots orange. If you ingest enough carotene, it will turn your skin a yellow-orange color. Are baby carrots really babies? No, they are really just a thin-stalked variety that is then cut into baby shapes. The first carrots that were grown, native to Afghanistan, were purple in color. Orange carrots later originated in Holland.
VEGGIE FACTS & FIGURES • Onions make you cry because they are full of sulfuric chemicals, which irritate your tear ducts. Sulfur is the same gas which is produced by volcanoes when they erupt. • Yam comes from the African word “njam” meaning “to eat.” • The old French word “caboche” meaning “head”
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gave us our head of cabbage. Cabbage is one of the most nutritious vegetables, high in antioxidant and anti-inflammatory compounds. Corn is a member of the grass family. Each ear has an average of 800 kernels. Cool as a cucumber? The inside of a cucumber can be 20 degrees cooler than the outside of a cucumber. Asparagus spears can grow an inch a day in warm weather. California grows 90% of the U.S. avocado crop. Ripe red bell peppers contain twice as much vitamin C by weight as citrus fruits. A single tomato plant was once documented to have produced 16,897 tomatoes. The original eggplant had a small white fruit that looked like an egg. The large purple eggplants are in the same family and bear the same name. The average American eats about 126 lbs. (57 kg) of potatoes annually. Romaine lettuce has more nutrients than any other kind of lettuce. The darker the leaf, the more nutritious the lettuce. Coconut is actually a fruit. Before the days of refrigerated trucks, loads of lettuce would be heaped with mounds of ice to preserve them while being shipped, hence the name “iceberg” lettuce.
VEGGIE FACTS & FIGURES • Sweet potatoes have more vitamin A than any used that to stir his drink instead, leading to a other vegetable. The cantaloupe is higher in new fad. vitamin A than any other fruit. • In the 1960s at Chicago’s Ambassador East • Jello introduced a new line of flavors intended for salads: mixed vegetable, tomato, and celery. Hotel, a major bash was held, during which No one bought. one of the local celebrities was served a Bloody Mary with no swizzle stick to stir it with. He • It would take over 300 celery sticks to equal the grabbed a celery stick from a vegetable tray and
info@TidbitsVernon.com The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read® Call Today (250) 832-3361 average human’s daily ration of calories. • Artichokes are one of the oldest foods known to humans. Marilyn Monroe was the first official California Artichoke Queen in 1947. • Dietary fiber found in whole grains, fruits, and vegetables is not found in animal products. SPINACH MYTH • In the 1930s a scientist studying the mineral properties of spinach accidentally misplaced a decimal point, leading researchers to believe that there was ten times as much iron in spinach as there actually is. The myth that spinach is extraordinarily high in iron still survives. Spinach has iron, but many foods, including soy beans, peas, beets, lima beans, lentils, liver, molasses, oysters, apricots, walnuts, and sunflower seeds have more. In order to get your requirement of iron from spinach alone, you’d have to eat twice your body weight of the stuff yearly. This would be a bad idea because spinach also contains oxalic acid, and ingesting that much oxalic acid could cause kidney stones. Boiling spinach will reduce the level of oxalic acid. Still, when Popeye started eating spinach, sales soared. Amazing Animals HORSES • A horse can sleep either laying down or standing up. • Horses have larger eyes than any other land mammal. Because the eyes are located on the sides of their heads, they can see in nearly a full circle. • Horses can gallop at about 27 mph (44 kph) but the fastest recorded horse sprinted at 55 mph (88 kph).
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1. The name of this vegetable comes from the Anglo-French word meaning “one.” 2. This vegetable is never sold cooked, canned, or frozen – only fresh. 3. Almost half of the produce in the U.S. is grown in these two states. 4. This root vegetable is the most widely eaten in the U.S., consumed at one-third of all meals. 5. It reportedly takes more calories to chew, swallow, and digest this veggie than are contained within that veggie.
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® Foods that contain more vitamin C than citrus fruit include (in order): bell peppers, guava, kale, kiwi, broccoli, and strawberries. Taking more than 2,000 mg of vitamin C per day can cause diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, heartburn, headaches, insomnia, and kidney stones.
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1. These two members of the cabbage family are actually unopened flowers. 2. This vegetable is the immature flower bud of a plant related to the sunflower.
• A horse cannot vomit. • The teeth of a horse show the animal’s age. When the owner of a horse for sale says it’s a young animal, the buyer is wise to inspect the teeth in order to get that information “straight from the horse’s mouth.” The third time they tied as well, and the fourth race was as close as could be, but the judges ruled • When horses are “rough-shod” they have shoes in favor of Bing Aman by a nose. The crowd didn’t which have the ends of the nails sticking out. This agree. They rioted and destroyed a good deal of gives the horse more traction, but it tears up the the track. ground the animal travels over. When someone “rides rough-shod” over another person, they • Gardening columnist Mike Klingman decided to are trampling the ground beneath them without see whose fertilizer was the best for tomatoes. He around the island for two weeks before he was collected manure from all horses that finished on caring. rescued. He was sent to England and entered top in the Preakness Stakes and planted seedlings • When a jockey is so far ahead of the rest of the in the Grand National Steeplechase against 25 in the individually fertilized soil. The biggest horses in a race that he doesn’t even have to lift other horses. He won. tomatoes were grown in soil fertilized by a local the reins anymore, he rises from his crouch over the horse’s withers and puts his hand on the • Bing Aman and Mart Jordan were two race horses nag who had never even seen the racetrack. who finished in a dead heat at the Gravesend pommel of the saddle, thereby winning the race Race Track in New York in 1873. So they ran the “hands down.” FRUIT FACTS race again, and again they ended in a dead heat. • Nervous race horses are sometimes given goats • Three-quarters of all raisins consumed in the U.S. as companions in their stalls, which helps calm are eaten at breakfast. them down. Gamblers sometimes steal the goat • Avocados are one of the few fruits that contain fat. of a horse that they want to do badly in a race. An avocado has about 300 calories and 30 grams Today we bother other people when we “get their of fat, making it 22% fat. A banana has only 0.6 goat.” grams of fat. • When early day pioneers reached the Palouse • Olives are another fatty fruit. Ten black olives River in Idaho, they found the Indians there Q: What did the lettuce say to the celery? have about 50 calories and 4 grams of fat. riding a particular type of spotted horse. They A: “Quit stalking me!” called them “Palousez” horses, which are now • Oranges will not ripen after being picked, but known as Appaloosa. lemons will. • Edward Smith Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby, was • True cantaloupes only grow in Europe. The friends with Sir Charles Bunbury. Both fellows American version is actually a muskmelon. Same enjoyed breeding horses. Together the two family, same genus, different species. Cantaloupe gentlemen founded a new horse race- a one mile were named after the town which was named springtime test of 3-year-old Thoroughbreds. after the Cantaluppi Castle in Italy. Cantaloupes However, before the first race could be held, it are rarely exported and very difficult to find in needed to be named. Which founder should the the U.S. race be named after? There was only one way to • Papayas contain an enzyme called papain which settle the dispute. They flipped a coin, and that There is no botanical difference between is commonly used in meat tenderizers. is why every spring we enjoy a derby instead of green bell peppers, yellow ones, and red • Dates are not a dried fruit; they look that way a bunbury. As consolation, Bunbury’s horse won ones. The only difference is their age. They when they’re fresh. the first derby. start out green and turn yellow then red, • The most popular berry in the U.S. is the • The famous racehorse Man o’ War was the first purple and brown as they mature on the strawberry. Blueberry comes in second. animal whose obituary and biography appeared vine, becoming progressively sweeter in the list of celebrities compiled by major press • Cranberries only grow in swampy bogs. Some before spoiling. associations. cranberry beds will produce fruit for more than a century. • Moifaa was a well-known racehorse in the early part of this century. In 1904 the ship that was • Every raspberry is really a conglomeration of bringing him from New Zealand to England was hundreds of tiny individual fruits, each one sunk in a storm. Moifaa nearly drowned, but containing a seed. washed up still alive on an island. He wandered • Blueberries contain more antioxidants per serving than any other fruit or vegetable, according to the USDA. More blueberries are grown in the state of Maine than anywhere else in the world. Blueberries are one of the few foods that are naturally blue in color. • Grapes are one of the oldest cultivated fruits and there are more varieties of grape produced in the world than any other fruit. • Pound for pound, the cherry contains the highest concentration of sugars. (continued)
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FRUIT FACTS (continued) • Worldwide, mangoes are the most popular fruit. In the U.S., bananas are top, followed by apples, watermelon, and oranges. • Until the mid-1800s the most popular, cheapest, and most widely available beverage (besides water) was apple cider. • Today the most popular juice is orange juice. • Strawberries are a member of the rose family. Americans eat about five pounds per year on average. • The only fruit with green flesh? Kiwi fruit. • Nectarines are a member of the rose family. Only one gene separates a nectarine from a peach: the fuzziness gene. • One type of Mexican papaya can weigh up to ten pounds (4.5 kg). • On an apple tree, it takes the energy from 50 leaves to support the production of a single apple. • Watermelon flesh is 97% water.
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1/3 cup nonfat sour cream 2 tablespoons fat-free mayonnaise 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley or 1 teaspoon dried parsley flakes 1/8 teaspoon black pepper 1 cup diced unpeeled cucumber 1/2 cup sliced red radishes 1 1/2 cups diced fresh tomatoes 1/4 cup chopped green onion In a large bowl, combine sour cream, mayonnaise, parsley and black pepper. Add cucumber, radishes, tomatoes and onion. Mix well to combine. Serve at once. Makes 4 (1/2 cup) servings. * Each serving equals: 40 calories, 0g fat, 1g protein, 9g carb., 97mg sodium, 49mg calcium, 1g fiber; Diabetic Exchanges: 1 Vegetable; Carb Choices: 1/2. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.
WORD ORIGINS • Tangerines were named after the city of Tangiers, Morocco, which was well known for the fruit. • • The Sanskrit word “naranga” meaning “fragrant” is the origin of the word orange. • Spanish explorers looked at pineapples and thought they looked like pinecones, giving them their name. • When Christian missionaries first encountered a new plant in South America, they looked at the flower and saw Christ’s crown of thorns inside it. So they named it the passion fruit. • Grapefruit grow in clusters like grapes. • Avocados, originally grown in Central and South America, were called by the Spanish word
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1. “Onion” and “union” come from the Anglo-French word meaning “one.” 2. Lettuce is never sold cooked, canned or frozen. 3. California and Arizona grow about half the produce in the U.S. 4.The potato is eaten at one-third of all meals in the U.S. 5. It takes more calories to chew, swallow, and digest celery than are contained in the celery itself.
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1. Broccoli and cauliflower are the unopened flowers of the plant. 2. Artichokes are the immature flower bud of a plant related to the sunflower.
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