Copious chemicals and plastic make conventional banana growing far from "green." But a remote university is producing eco-friendly bananas that may be in your local grocery.
A worldwide search uncovers a mate for a lonely giant elephant beetle which arrived in Britain in a banana load.
A team of Virginia Tech students have converted the banana split into convenient, bite-sized, frozen slices of banana filled with non-fat frozen yogurt and enrobed in dark chocolate. The decadent ...
Who doesn't like a banana split? Fresh fruit, three flavors of ice cream and ... frozen yogurt and enrobed in dark chocolate. Called "Banana Splitters," the new confection is packaged as nine individual ...
... and could explain the unusually long duration of the fluorescing intermediates in bananas. Fluorescing chlorophyll catabolytes have otherwise only been found as short-lived intermediate products in ...
Queensland researchers have grown a genetically modified banana plant that is resistant to a deadly disease currently threatening to invade Australia.
... , convenient food, are also popular ornamental plants in the southern United States. Banana plants are highly prized by many as one of the most beautiful ornamentals used for creating a subtropical ...
U.S. detainees may be leaving Guantanamo, but rare inhabitants—giant snakes, "banana rats," nesting sea turtles—are there to stay, protected by the same razor wire fences that keep prisoners in.
Bananas are a staple crop of Rwanda. The fruit is eaten raw, fried and baked — it even produces banana beer and wine. Around 2 million tons are grown each year but the fruit is only a small percentage ...
Scientists have developed effective methods for identifying banana wilt, a disease that is destroying crops in East Africa.
Supplementing spaghetti with unripe banana flour may be a healthy addition since banana flour contains antioxidants and fiber, according to a study in the Journal of Food Science, published by the ...
Supplementing spaghetti with unripe banana flour may be a healthy addition since banana flour contains antioxidants and fiber, according to a new study.
What do you do if you're stuck between a banana and a hard place?
The slippery slope of paying extortionists tripped up Chiquita in the late 1990s and early 2000s, much like Donald below...
But two ...
KAMPALA, Uganda, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Drastic action is needed against two diseases attacking banana fields in Uganda and other African countries, scientists said.
... University of Innsbruck, Austria and their colleagues have found that, as chlorophyll ages and begins to disintegrate in banana peels it does not change color in the spectrum of visible light we see. ...
