| Make foodmate.com your Homepage | Wap | Archiver
Advanced Top
Search Promotion
Search Promotion
Post New Products
Post New Products
Business Center
Business Center
 
Current Position:Home » News » Recalls & Alerts » Alerts & Food Safety » Topic

White substance in Egyptian tomatoes is harmless

Zoom in font  Zoom out font Published: 2018-09-06  Views: 17
Core Tip: Last Tuesday, Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation refuted reports that the white substance recently found in some tomatoes was poisonous.
 Last Tuesday, Egypt’s Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation refuted reports that the white substance recently found in some tomatoes was poisonous. Through the national cabinet’s media center, the ministry stressed the tomatoes were free from disease, and that the white color inside was the “tomato’s white meat”: a harmless physiological phenomenon at each summer’s end.
 
“[White meat] emerges from the effect of increasing heat waves on the tomato’s growth,” the ministry claimed. It added that the phenomenon would disappear around mid-September.
 
On Monday, the World Bank offered the Ministry of Agriculture a flexible loan of $ 500 million, intended to develop irrigation fields and value chains for vegetables, fruits, medical and aromatic plants, and flowers.
 
Egyptindependent.com reports that Minister Ezz El-Din Abu Steit received the offer in a meeting to discuss joint agricultural projects. He claimed that the projects discussed in the meeting would increase Egypt’s annual agricultural exports to $12 billion, compared to $5 billion in 2017-2018.
 
 
[ News search ]  [ ]  [ Notify friends ]  [ Print ]  [ Close ]

 
 
0 in all [view all]  Related Comments

 
Hot Graphics
Hot News
Hot Topics
 
 
Powered by Global FoodMate
Message Center(0)