Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sonoma counties, heartland of California's $730 million-a-year wine industry, prospects are promising for a bumper harvest this fall. Beneath the deceptively lush surface of the peaceful vineyards, however, an expensive disaster looms. Billions of microscopic parasites called phylloxeras are munching away at the roots of the grape-bearing stalks. While no threat to human health, within a decade the tiny insects could eat their way through 50,000 acres of the nation's finest vineyards. Estimates of the total damage, including the cost of replanting with Phylloxera-resistant stalks, range from $500 million to more than...
When does mixing apple juice and grape juice yield cherry juice? Simple: When the manufacturer says it does. So complains the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer group that is pressing the Food and Drug Administration for rules requiring companies to reveal on labels the percentages of various juices in their fruit-juice blends...
Last week the group released a survey of leading brands showing that the ingredients now imprecisely listed on the backs of labels do not add up to the claims made on their fronts. "Manufacturers are cheating consumers by passing off what is mostly apple and grape juice as more expensive kiwi, papaya, raspberry and cherry juice," declared C.S.P.I. legal-affairs director Bruce Silverglade. "If a company is selling strawberry-flavored apple-grape juice, then that's what the product should be called...
Delicate pastries stuffed with peanut butter and served with a grape jam sauce...
Addressing a crowd of about 150 people, Chavez attacked growers and politicians for not banning the use of harmful chemicals in the grape and other fruit industries. These pesticides are the cause of birth defects, miscarriages, and cancer in workers, he said...