Essays on Cauliflower

Abstract

Color and texture are important attributes related to vegetable quality. The objective of this study was to determine the changes in quality characteristics, caused by cooking time, and pH (alkali and acid addition) in some vegetables. Four different vegetables — carrots, spinach, red cabbage and cauliflower — were analyzed for changes in color and texture associated to time of boiling, the effect of alkali (baking soda), and the effect of acid (vinegar and cream of tartar). Samples of each vegetable were prepared and treated for five minutes. Color change was measured visually and using the L*a*b* technique. Color and ...

Bertolt Brecht’s classic two-toned play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is about both gangland Chicago and Nazi Germany. Brecht uses the fictional story of Arturo Ui to parallel the truthful rise of Hitler in Nazi Germany around the same time. Both Ui and Hitler are totalitarian rulers of their relative domains, each with their own secret agendas and a thirst for power that they will attain in any way they need to. If they have to kill people, so be it. Violence and corruption only helped these rulers because they were able to threaten others by making ...

Abstract

Color and texture are important attributes related to vegetable quality. The objective of this study was to determine the changes in quality characteristics, caused by cooking time, and pH (alkali and acid addition) in some vegetables. Four different vegetables — carrots, spinach, red cabbage and cauliflower — were analyzed for changes in color and texture associated to time of boiling, the effect of alkali (baking soda), and the effect of acid (vinegar and cream of tartar). Samples of each vegetable were prepared and treated for five minutes. Color change was measured visually and using the L*a*b* technique. Color and ...

Chapter 1: Mendel’s little secret.

Gregor Mendel, a Moravian monk, carefully bred peas in separate breeding lines, crossing and backcrossing to watch how traits appeared in future generations. He found out that traits were transmitted to future generations from parent plants. Mendel also found out that there were certain plants such as the hawkweed that did not need any kind of sex to reproduce. Simply put, the plant was asexual hence self-reproducing. Mendel is considered as the founding father of genetics and despite his death, more than one century later, scientists are still struggling to investigate this botanical mystery that is Apoximis. All this ...

After his graduation from Cambridge University in 1831, Charles Darwin developed deep enthusiasm in biology and consequently embarked on a mission to investigate the origin of species (Quammen, 2006). Several years later, after conducting extensive research, he came up with the theory of evolution which mainly suggests that organisms evolved from simple forms to their present complex forms. He proposed several theories that sought to explain how the process of evolution took place. The process of natural selection is one of them. This theory suggests that nature selects a variety of species that are suitable for survival and reproduction in a particular ...