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Citrus fruits, bananas, figs, raisins Dairy products... 

Why Do Bruised or Cut Fruits (Bananas, Apples) Get Brown Food-Info.Net. Wageningen University, The Netherlands. Available online. URL http //www.food-info.net/uk/qa/qa-fp 138. htm. Accessed Dec. 17, 2006. 

Fruit Banana Tomato Melon Arizona State Boyce Thompson I. E. coli endotoxin fusion protein 102, 257... 

Potassium is the major intracellular cation. It is found in citrus fruits, bananas, and tomatoes. Dietary intake of potassium is about 1.9-5.6 g/day in the United States. Potassium deficiency is rare, but loss of potassium in severe diarrhea, such... 

Eat a bedtime snack. A healthy carb snack an hour before bedtime can ease the strain of fasting overnight, while high-serotonin food can help you sleep. Try a tryptophan-rich food such as milk, fruit (banana or pineapple), nuts (almonds or walnuts), a little cereal, whole-grain bread, or brown rice. 

Residue data on the edible portion are obtained to refine estimates of dietary intake for commodities such a.s citrus fruits, bananas, pineapples, kiwifruits, and other fruits with inedible peel cereals and oilseeds and cucurbits with inedible peel, such as melons, The consumption of the edible portion of food commodities should be used in estimating intakes rather than that of entire commodities. Correction factors currently used for the weight of the edible portion include 30% reduction for both citrus and bananas. In some countries, edible portions of some food commodities may vary, and their national governments may consider local dietary habits when using such data (WHO, 1997a). 

The first alkene in Table 6-5, ethene (CjHJ, has the common name ethylene and is a natural ripening agent for fruit. Bananas, for example, are often picked green and then gassed, or exposed to ethylene, just before being sold. The banana fanner can pick and ship the bananas while they are green and more durable and still sell the fruit ripe. Most of the other alkenes are seldom encountered directly except as minority components of gasoline. 

Engel, K.H., J. Heidlas, R. Tressl, The flavour of tropical fruits (banana, melon, pineapple), in Food Flavours Part C The Flavour of Fruit, A.J. McLeod, Ed., Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1990, p. 195. 

The natural water content in the edible part of fruits and fresh fruit juices mainly depends on the type of fruit. Bananas have a relatively... 

Chemical preservatives such as E260-E263 are used in a number of food products including fish products of all types, fruit juices, soft drinks, pastries, salads, margarine, sauces, wines, dried fruits, citric fruits, bananas, desiccated vegetables, sugar, meat, etc. 

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