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Pot roast

Ordinary potatoes and sweet potatoes have a very similar consistency when raw, yet sweet potatoes roast in about half the time. What is the reason for this?

Alan Fellow, Edinburgh, UK
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Tags: cooking, kitchen, Potato, Vegetables.

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Growth spurt

What factors determine the point on the surface of an apparently homogenous potato at which a new sprout bursts forth?

Peter Foley, Workington, Cumbria, UK

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Categories: Plants.

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Why strongly frozen potatoes are slightly sweet?
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  • Asked by Urszula
  • on 2011-10-08 14:07:25
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Categories: Plants.

Tags: Food, Potato, Vegetables.

 

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Bug wash

I want to know if washing vegetables that you would normally eat raw is any protection against illnesses such as the German E. coli outbreak thought to have been caused by contaminated salads. It seems that holding the produce in running water from a tap will have limited success in removing contaminants. Am I right?

Peter Mariani, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
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Categories: Plants.

Tags: Food, vegetable, salad, ecoli.

 

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What creates the silver lining around clouds?

"Every cloud has a silver lining." is a common proverb, but what actually causes the edges of the clouds to shine (the silver lining bit)?

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Lana

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  • Asked by Lana
  • on 2011-02-20 19:17:50
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Categories: Plants.

Tags: melting, vegetable, combustion, Melt, combust, Carrot.

 

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What is the gas made up of that is found inside cavities in fruit and vegetables, for example in green peppers and pumpkins?
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  • Asked by Psider
  • on 2010-11-10 11:03:31
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Categories: Plants.

Tags: Fruit, vegetable.

 

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Why do iceberg lettuces last so much longer than other vegetables?

Of all the vegetables I buy, whole iceberg lettuces have the greatest longevity. They are edible up to three weeks after their "best before" date. Other vegetables succumb sooner.

Why does it last so long compared with, say, tomatoes, broccoli or radishes?

Finn de Boer, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

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Categories: Domestic Science, Plants, Unanswered.

Tags: Food, vegetable, bestbefore, iceberglettuce, lettuce.

 

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