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  Hey, Yes it would be nice to see large sample size studies in other countries like the US. China does have a growing obesity epidemic as well, not quite at US levels but not insignificant at all. They might be exposured to higher levels of nasty chemicals than other countries but then everyone...

I know many on this site will be aware that eating spicy foods can be good for your health; however, the evidence for this has been limited to in vitro or small studies. A recent large prospective study was carried out and has given the strongest evidence to date that eating chillis could be...

Brazilian Starfish, bishop's hat, Peter pepper, Goat's weed, Pimenta de Neyde, Bolivian rainbow, Peruvian purple, NuMex Twilight, Marbles, Medusa are some to have a look at.

    It actually won't all be evaporated, there will be still some remaining bound to the product, even though it looks totally dry. It shouldn't really be a problem as the amounts will be small and acetone is not very toxic. I would recommend using food grade acetone, as some of the impurities...

  :lol: Good work! This happened at the weekend at a big soccer match in the UK and reminded me about this thread.... https://vine.co/v/M37F1mB5IzB   Some aim on the bird, I have to say. :cool:

    I think the postage for one box is 60 dollars to the UK,... :tear:

    Maybe heat the alcohol solution and if the vapours catches the throat then it is there? Or do we just want Obey to eat an extract of birdshit  :think:  :D

I went for no, we know that capsaicin plays a defensive role against mammals consuming them and also acts as an anti-fungal compound to protect seeds against certain fungi. This paper also suggests that it has a bioactive role in birds, with respect to seed retention in the gut - and that this...

    I think in the future the lines between organic and non organic farming will become blurred (I do not totally understand the differences in SOME cases), in that it will be harder to separate the two as scientists will start to realise (as they are with respect to human health) that the...

    Thank you, I wasn't trying to annoy or get into an argument. I was just stating that this study offers nothing new about the benefits of SRB to legumes - We have known about the symbiotic relationship between these two for years, even school kids are taught about this. 

    Based on the knowledge gained only from this article - It is impossible to know what would happen if you removed/destroy micro-organisms as I stated previously, it was not tested for in this study.

  Yes, but the study in question does not use pesticides or attempt to measure the beneficial effects of the bacteria i.e. compare it with plants grown without them. So, saying that it is a study demonstrating the benefits of organic or not using pesticides is simply not true (it was never the...

A review that you also may enjoy, not sure if you will have access to this or not as I am on a PC with subscriptions to scientific journals   http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1360138512000799

    You should like this article though  ;)   http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/33703/title/Fighting-Microbes-with-Microbes/         A LOOK AT THE SOIL MICROBIOME Plant pathogens, such as the Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato (1), can enter through leaf pores known as stomata...

  lol not really as it has nothing to do with pesticides either  ;)

  The authors wrote that themselves as they are trying to big up a quite obscure article, I never said the article stated it's a reason to grow organically (as it doesn't), I was just saying that the study findings has nothing to do with the benefits of growing organically (as stated in your...

Have you read the actual study? It doesn't really give another benefit for growing organically. It is just a study showing how legumes recognise the nitrogen fixing bacteria and form the nodules and some of the changes that these induce. Ironically they use GM plants to demonstrate this. It is...

  As previously stated, peer review and replication of studies, weeds out the cowboys.

Wash right before eating as washing will reduce the time they will stay fresh considerably. Room temp should be fine unwashed for 2-3 days, the fridge would be better, I think.   Other parts of the forum will inform you about other ways of preserving, e.g. pickles, fermented sauces, sauces etc  ...

I would guess that it is the phenolic compounds getting oxidised that turns it brown. As seeds change their chemical composition as they mature, it could well be that the immature seeds are higher in these phenolics than the mature seed or else the cells surrounding the seed are more fragile...