Fruits develop from the flower of plants and hold the seeds. They are the way of plants to distribute their seeds.
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What is the gas inside a Capsicum pepper, and how does it get there?
Every time I make fajitas, I cut into bell and chili peppers and notice how hollow they are. I always think to myself: what is the gas inside this pepper, and how does it get there?
Perhaps Capsicum peppers are porous. I did a little kitchen…
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Vitamins located closely under the peel?
I came across an old saying (I would even call it a myth) that vitamins are concentrated under (or close under) the peel of apples or potatoes and
other fruit. This implies that they are more healthier when not pealed. My question is: Is this true?…
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What causes this eggplant scar?
This eggplant fruit is featuring a big scar. What causes such a scratch? Is it a disease or maybe the fruit was hit and then it healed the crack? Is it correct to call it "Eggplant scab"?
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Why are clementines easier to peel than oranges?
In my experience, clementines have been significantly easier to peel by hand than and orange. The skin of the orange seems to cling to the rest of the orange much more so than the skin of the clementine does.
What causes this? Wikipedia…
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Why is coconut a fleshy fruit?
Firstly, I understand that it is classified as a drupe and its mesocarp is fibrous hence its hardness. However, how did botanists conclude such? Putting both mango and coconut side by side, we can at least see that the mango has fleshy mesocarp and…
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Calculating the ripeness rate in fruits
I need a way to calculate avocado ripeness rate in my experiment so I need a quantitative way, I'm not sure if calculating the cellular respiration for the avocado will result in ripeness rate for the fruit, if that's true I need references if you…
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An apple sunk in water, looks fine. What could it mean?
I washed a dozen of apple just now and one of them sunk in water. Also surprisingly I was not able to find an answer via googling, all top results were about why they float.
The smallest one. I don't know the variety name, but AFAIK it is an apple,…
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Why do bananas turn black after some time?
Why do bananas turn black after some time? Please don't just give hypotheses but concrete references to experiments
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What is the cause for these patterns on my kiwi fruit?
Have a look at the top right side of the fruit. There are these grid like vellular patterns over it. The fruit seemed tender at time of taking the photo.
Unsure if the pattern developed over ripening or not. Never paid attention except when I took…
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Why do watermelons have a rind?
Random questions come up when talking with friends - such as this one!
We were curious: what are watermelon rinds good for? So what benefits does it give the watermelon? Why did mother nature give it such protection?
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Do oranges have traces of starch?
This is for a chemistry experiment, so I just want to know if there are small traces of starch in oranges, and not whether or not I should eat an orange for its starch content, or something to that extent.
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