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The Punch
Remember how as a child you would swallow a watermelon seed and people would scare you with the thought of a watermelon tree growing inside you? As you grew up, you did realize that it was a hoax, but watermelon seeds continued to carry a bad omen with them. Well, the truth of these seeds may come to you by surprise. Spitting out, removing or throwing away watermelon seeds is a way of dampening the nutritional value of this fruit.
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The Myanmar Times
Watermelon prices have shot up to $417 per ton from $298 during the Chinese New Year period, according to Myanmar Melon Producer and Exporter Association chair U Naing Win. The price rise was driven by an increase in demand following the lunar new year, when China, which buys almost all the watermelon for export from Myanmar, shuts down the importation of the fruits.
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Broadly
Vivien Sansour was working as a writer and photographer in the northern West Bank when she began to hear stories about Jadu'I, a succulent watermelon once abundant in Jenin, Palestine, from the farmers and families she was documenting. For years, Jadu'I was considered among the occupation's agricultural casualties—but this narrative of Jenin's beloved watermelon didn't sit well with Sansour.
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The New Indian Express
As many as 50 families in Polali and surrounding areas have turned their paddy farms into watermelon plantations keeping in mind the annual Chendu festival at the Polali Rajarajeshwari Temple to be held in the first week of April. Reason: Watermelons are offered to the deity during the five-day festival and then sold to the devotees.
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Food Dive
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office says federal food safety regulation is too fragmented, resulting in "inconsistent oversight, ineffective coordination, and inefficient use of resources." The report notes the U.S. food supply is governed by at least 30 federal laws administered by 15 federal agencies. The report recommends the executive branch and federal agencies develop a national strategy for food safety.
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The Boston Globe
Last November, if you whipped up a cake using certain kinds of Duncan Hines cake mix, prepared a meal with Jennie-O brand ground turkey, or nibbled on romaine lettuce, you might have run the risk of contracting a foodborne illness. Each of these products was the focus of a recall due to concerns about contamination by salmonella or E. coli. Food recalls really do seem like an everyday occurrence.
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Food Dive
The difference between food traceability today and food traceability 10 years ago is fairly remarkable. Just think: the iPhone was first released in June of 2007 and is now on its 18th model. The Apple App Store now has over 2 million apps, and Android users can access almost 4 million. Our expectation for what is possible with technology, including visibility into the food supply chain, has been transformed in just over a decade.
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Supply Chain Dive
Walmart plans to allow shoppers to return previously purchased items at the front of its stores to make the process more convenient, according to a transcript of comments made by Walmart U.S. President and CEO Greg Foran at the UBS Global Consumer and Retail Conference. The news of this customer service shift came from one comment in a wide ranging discussion.
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The Washington Post
If food waste were a country, it would be the world's third-largest emitter of CO2, after China and the United States. In our nation alone, we throw away some 63 million tons of food a year, even as 40 million Americans are considered food insecure. Advocates of the "ugly produce" movement say they have a way to radically reduce this waste: cutting the price of fruits and vegetables that normally go uneaten because they look too weird.
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The Packer
Michigan-based Gordon Food Service has formed an exclusive partnership with indoor farming company Square Roots, expanding the greenhouse company's reach from its New York base. The agreement gives Square Roots access to more than a dozen Gordon Food Service distribution centers and 175 retail locations, although the news release announcing the partnership doesn't specify where Square Roots plans to build more indoor farms.
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U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Advancements in the dynamic field of biotechnology are bringing about the development of innovative, new food products. The FDA is committed to helping food developers bring biotechnology innovations to market while at the same time providing consumers with confidence that foods available for purchase in the U.S.—whether developed using traditional breeding techniques or biotechnology—meet the FDA's high safety standards.
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The Packer
The day starts out fine, bins are heaping over with "the look." You know, the certain "it" that attracts customers in the first place. Fully stocked and well-signed bins convey that the item is fresh—like it just arrived from a field or orchard—and economic—large, full displays in any form shout abundance, conveying that the item is a value to the shopper. As the day wears on? The bins sell down, and the effect wears off. Quickly.
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Grocery Dive
The food supply chain is a modern miracle. It is a complex web of interconnected variables with hundreds of thousands of touch points that move tens of thousands of products to store shelves and consumer homes each and every day. Automation in food production and delivery is a necessity and a blessing.
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Digital Commerce 360
If Amazon.com Inc. plans to expand its grocery store footprint aggressively, it's safe to assume Amazon's ambitions reach far beyond the scale of its $13.7 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Market in 2017. Amazon wants nothing less than domination of U.S. food sales, analysts say.
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