Scottish fruit juice maker develops new microwave technology
04.10.11
Get Juiced, a green fruit juice supplier in Scotland, has unveiled new Advanced Microwave Technology (AMT), developed in partnership with scientists based at Idol Margaret University (QMU) in Edinburgh.
The company received a furnish from the Scottish Enterprise Business Growth Pipeline to evolve this new technology with which it plans to be positioned as a market leader in the product of fresh fruit juice.
The company said the AMT machine works by execution micro organisms in the juice with minimal effort on its nutrition, drop and physical properties.
Get Juiced plans to employ a postgraduate, with the mitigate of Business Growth Pipeline, in order to maintain and come to light the project.
The company claims it is the only fresh juice company in Scotland to use a trade mark new AMT machine to produce 'as fresh as it gets' juice for the clients, bars, hotels, cafes, restaurants across the Scotland.
Get Juiced also created a travel over of new products and flavors, to coincide with the development of new technology. Its smoothies will be introduced in the behaviour of Banana & Pineapple and Apple & Blackberry as well as a smooth distribute including Orange and Pink Grapefruit.
Source: Drinks Business Review
Melon-choly
05.10.11
Overall gardener: I planted cantaloupe this year and had flowers on the plants, but only have one negligible melon. Why didn’t I get any fruit?
Melons are in the cucurbit relatives, or vine crop family, which includes cucumbers, pumpkins, zucchini and squash. A accurate cantaloupe, Cucumis melo var. cantaloupensis, does not live in the United States. True cantaloupes grow in Europe and have a husk that is smooth and lumpy, whereas the muskmelon grown here has a webbed skin. The melon many of us call “cantaloupe” and grow in our gardens is truly muskmelon, cucumis nelo L.
The type of blossom arrangement on the muskmelon is called monoecious, meaning it has break up male and female flowers on the same plant. You can tell the female bud from the male flower by the small, immature melon fruit found below the effulgent yellow petals. Typically (although it depends on the species), when you look at the point of departure of the plant, the first few leaves have male flowers, then moving along the vine there will be a mix of male and female flowers, and at the end there will be mostly female flowers. The engaging fact about muskmelon flowers is that they have a pollination window of only one day. The pollen must be transferred from the spear flower to the female flower on that one day for seed to set and fruit to appear.
Source: Brainerd Daily Dispatch
