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Feedback: Handy nutritious molecules

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30 December 2014

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Handy nutritious molecules

RESOLUTIONS to change one’s life are traditional in some cultures at this time of year. You could do worse than pledging to eat more fruit. But what fruit in particular? And how to decide, without spending days sitting down (bad) reading research papers (good)?

Tim Dodd sends a novel shortcut, helpfully supplied on a card with his regular delivery of fruit and vegetables. “SweeTango apples,” it explains, “are new apples to the New Zealand market. An interesting fact is that their molecules are twice the size of other apples.”

Chemists may rejoice at this…

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