cantaloupe

Back in April, ICR reported the introduction of the MooBella individual serving hard ice cream machine, touted as a foodservice breakthrough that would save operators "time and money on inventory, maintenance, service and labor." Now MooBella reports a new breakthrough in its use of the Cantaloupe Systems' Seed Platform which is designed to provide remote point of sale monitoring and interaction via wireless networking.

Ingredients: 1.2 litres/2 pts tomato juice; 250ml/8 fl oz very low-fat plain yoghurt; 100g/4oz cucumbergrated rind of 12 small onion, grated; lemon; lemon juice; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 cantaloupe melon, diced; 30ml/2 tbsp chopped basil

Their cantaloupe variety tasted like a luscious frozen version of the real thing, while there were actual bits of pineapple in the corresponding fruit bar.

According to Webster's Dictionary, melons are "the large round fruit of various plants of the gourd family, with sweet pulpy flesh and many seeds (honeydew, cantaloupe, musk-melon)." They are vining, warm-season fruits, growing best in regions with long summers.

In the 26 January 2005 Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, Texas Tech researchers reported finding perchlorate in a variety of forage and edible crops, including alfalfa and cantaloupe. The FDA is also sampling tomatoes, carrots, cantaloupe, and spinach, with results to come.

Den's first story was "Asgrow Creates Craving for Cantaloupe" and discussed Asgrow's Mel-On-Wheels program, which was designed to help create demand for cantaloupe.

The first broad survey of maternal diet and how it might affect risk of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children suggests that beans, beef, carrots, peas, and cantaloupe consumed during pregnancy may be protective.

Children accounted for the majority of those infected in three multistate outbreaks of Salmonella, serotype poona linked to Mexican cantaloupe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported (MMWR 51[46]:1044-47, 2002).

"The US has not presented the appropriate scientific evidence to link the salmonella cases to the cantaloupe imports," said Javier Trujillo Arriaga, who heads the health unit at the Secretaria de Agricultura, Ganaderia, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y Alimentacion (SAGARPA).

He also acknowledged that most people have strong opinions on which fruit they like better, watermelons or cantaloupe.

Through its acquisition of Cantaloupe Systems, Inc.

Summary: Present work is an effort of an agrowaste valorization, whereby the cantaloupe seed residue has been proposed as a potential feedstock for biodiesel production.