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You can’t live off Easter eggs forever, you know.
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You can’t live off Easter eggs forever, you know.
The Keelings workers controversy has thrown a spotlight on a complex corner of Irish food production.
Foreign supply chain anxiety could increase the need for the harvest season to run smoothly.
Keelings Fruit flew 189 workers from Bulgaria to Ireland last week to pick fruit.
The disease claimed a record 150 lives in 2014.
The Australian government has raised the maximum sentence for fruit tampering to 15 years.
We have been conditioned to believe that there are just handfuls of apple varieties but, in fact, we have hundreds of native varieties in Ireland alone, writes Michael Kelly.
Any increase in the amount of veggies you’re eating will stand to you, writes nutritionist Ciara Wright.
The study found people are not eating enough fruit and veg.
The previous five-a-day still reduces risk, but the number to aim for is actually double that amount.
Humans have been tweaking the genetics of our favourite fruits and vegetables for millennia.
If you just eat 10 or 12 bulbs of this fruit, you don’t need food for another half a day.
Hint: you’ve been peeling oranges wrong your entire life.
It has also banned advertising sugary drinks on city property, like billboards.
While we eat them as sweet treats they don’t need to be guilty pleasures.
IT’S DISGUSTING. Give me more.
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Struggle no more… Deliciousness in just 50 seconds.
That’s according to a major new study… So put the banana down.
See corn as you never imagined you’d see it.
A fly-on-the-deck doc sees Cork, the world’s second largest natural deep water harbour, give up its secrets.
A new study suggests that fruit and vegetables can help protect you from premature death.
Not even monkeys can’t avoid the dreaded diet.
The drugs were valued at six million euro.
At least one of these will make an appearance this year.
Are your kids looking forward to carving the pumpkin? Here are some bright ideas for them.
Blemished apples? Misshapen carrots? Some European supermarkets are starting to sell slightly bandy fruit and veg for less than the cost of their better-looking brethren.
So far in Ireland, there have been 15 primary cases of hepatitis A linked to the consumption of the frozen fruit.
It’s Monday, so let TheJournal.ie distract you from the ‘serious’ news with one of life’s REAL dilemmas. (*not really)
Are you concious of what you put in your basket or trolley? And if you buy organic, why?
Fyffes says it’ll have to increase its sales prices as the cost of fruit and fuel goes up and while the euro weakens.
How has the recent bad weather been affecting farmers and crops – and what does this mean for the traditional summer fruit, the strawberry?
You can buy fresh pizza from a vending machine in Dun Laoghaire, but what else would you like at your fingertips?
And no, we’re not making this up…
Apples and celery top the ‘dirty dozen’ list of pesticide-laden produce – but don’t worry there is good news too…
Watermelons may be exploding due to the use of chemicals, latest reports say.