Afabic

01/06/2019

Nobody can predict the future. You just have to give your all to the relationship you're in and do your best to take care of your partner, communicate and give them every last drop of love you have. I think one of the most important things in a relationship is caring for your significant other through good times and bad.🥰🌹

01/06/2019

12/03/2019

Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.

Menachem Begin

12/03/2019

Наполните свою жизнь действием. Не ждите, пока это произойдет. Сделай это. Сделай свое будущее. Сделай свою надежду. Займись своей любовью. И каковы бы ни были ваши убеждения, почитайте своего создателя, не пассивно ожидая, что благодать спустится с небес, а делая все возможное, чтобы благодать произошла ... себя, прямо сейчас, прямо здесь, на Земле.

08/03/2019

BEETROOT:
The beetroot is the taproot portion of the beet plant,usually known in North America as the beet and also known as the table beet, garden beet, red beet, or golden beet. It is one of several of the cultivated varieties of Beta vulgaris grown for their edible taproots and their leaves (called beet greens). These varieties have been classified as B. vulgaris subsp. vulgaris Conditiva Group.

Like many modern vegetables, beetroot was first cultivated by the Romans. By the 19th century it held great commercial value when it was discovered that beets could be converted into sugar. Today, the leading commercial producers include the USA, Russia, France, Poland and Germany. Many classic beetroot recipes are associated with central and Eastern Europe including the famous beetroot soup known as borscht. Beetroot's earthy charm has resulted in its ubiquitous influence on fashionable menus and recipes. Its delicious but distinctive flavour and nutritional status have escalated it to the root you can't beat!

Belonging to the same family as chard and spinach, both the leaves and root can be eaten - the leaves have a bitter taste whereas the round root is sweet. Typically a rich purple colour, beetroot can also be white or golden. Due to its high sugar content, beetroot is delicious eaten raw but is more typically cooked or pickled.SpinachNutritional highlights

Beetroot is of exceptional nutritional value; especially the greens, which are rich in calcium, iron and vitamins A and C. Beetroots are an excellent source of folic acid and a very good source of fibre, manganese and potassium. The greens should not be overlooked; they can be cooked up and enjoyed in the same way as spinach.
@ Suhum, Ghana

05/03/2019

Scientific analysis of a cob of corn dating back 5,000 years shows how maize became one of our most popular cereals.

Farming by early civilisations started a process of domestication that produced the sweet yellow corn we use today for food or fuel.

Ancient DNA extracted from the cob gives a window into the past to the time when maize was first grown.

The cob is one of the oldest in the world and was excavated from a cave in the Tehuacan Valley, Mexico.

"Based on archaeological evidence and modern DNA evidence, we already know that maize was domesticated in Mexico some time between about 10,000 and 6,000 years ago," said Nathan Wales, of the Natural History Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen.About 5,000 years ago, indigenous people in Mexico were both hunter-gatherers and farmers.

They probably got most of their calories from wild plants and hunting, but at certain points in the year used food such as maize to supplement their diets.

"Today we eat sweetcorn, we use maize for fuel, but thousands of years ago people were utilising it differently," said Dr Wales, the lead researcher of the study.

"Rather than being totally focused on maize agriculture, people are using it as a secondary resource at certain times of the year."

Co-researcher Jazmin Ramos Madrigal said the findings, reported in Current Biology, are only the beginning of the story.

"Humans dispersed maize across the Americas very quickly and very successfully," she said.

"We want to know how humans dispersed it, which routes they took and how maize adapted to such divers Maize as we know it looks very different from its wild ancestor.

The ancient cob is less than a 10th of the size of modern corn cobs, at about 2cm (0.8inch) long.

And the ancient cob produced only eight rows of kernels, about half that of modern maize.

The DNA of the specimen, known as Tehuacan162, is unusually well preserved.

Sequencing of the genome of the 5,310-year-old corn cob shows that it was genetically more similar to modern maize than to its wild ancestor.

The ancient maize already carried genetic changes that make kernels soft and palatable.

And it had lost the hard cases around the kernels seen in wild grasses. @ Suhum, Ghana

26/02/2019

The age-old question actually has an answer—it's both! Tomatoes are fruits that are considered vegetables by nutritionists. Botanically, a fruit is a ripened flower o***y and contains seeds. Tomatoes, plums, zucchinis, and melons are all edible fruits, but things like maple “helicopters” and floating dandelion puffs are fruits too. For some reason, people got hung up on tomatoes, but the “fruit or vegetable” question could also work for any vegetable with seeds.

Now, nutritionally, the term “fruit” is used to describe sweet and fleshy botanical fruits, and “vegetable” is used to indicate a wide variety of plant parts that are not so high in fructose. In many cultures, vegetables tend to be served as part of the main dish or side, whereas sweet fruits are typically snacks or desserts. Thus, roots, tubers, stems, flower buds, leaves, and certain botanical fruits, including green beans, pumpkins, and of course tomatoes, are all considered vegetables by nutritionists. There is no hard-and-fast rule that clearly designates a botanical fruit as a vegetable, but, given that tomatoes are generally not used in desserts and are closely related to other fruit-vegetables (e.g., eggplants and peppers), it is not too counterintuitive for tomatoes to be classified as vegetables. @ Kpong, Volta, Ghana

23/02/2019

Carrots🥕🥕🥕can be lifted as soon as they are a usable size. Carrots are ready for harvest 60 to 90 days after sowing depending upon the variety; they will continue to grow and enlarge if you leave them in the ground-but they usually do not get tastier and may get bitter.

15/02/2019

The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.

Vince Lombardi

14/02/2019

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

01/12/2018