Word: eating
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Almonds are a huge business in California's Central Valley; the state's 660,000 nut-producing acres are responsible for some 90% of the world's crop. Every almond we eat is the result of multiple acts of pollination; without a massive number of bees to flit among the blossoms, growers say, almond trees would produce scarcely a tenth as many nuts. That's why, every February, more than a million beehives--with a total of some 20 billion bees--are shipped in on flatbed trucks from all over the country. (Video: TIME visits the buzzing almond orchards...
...fees to supplement their main business: honey. "Almonds were nothing," says Johnson, examining some of his 700 hives, his snow white hair peeking out from beneath a green trucker hat. Today about 60% of Johnson's business is pollination. (The honey made from almond blossoms is too bitter to eat and is not harvested...
...jams, jellies and spreads category was also down, by a sharp 12.1%. That includes peanut butter; while you might expect people to eat more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches instead of steak during a typical recession, the salmonella outbreak likely dragged down the numbers. Canned seafood, down 13.3%, is a little harder to explain. In general, seafood costs more than other products, but if consumers are trading down to canned goods, one might think they'd be buying more of it in cans. (Read "Why We Buy the Products...
...said that he checked the menu everyday in order to eat healthfully, called the new format “confusing...
...bread and fish, will cost just $77 a month. "The aim of the diet is so that the people don't panic and know that in any situation there is a way out, including through nutrition," a spokeswoman for the Ministry told TIME. (See pictures of what makes us eat more food...