Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In this Norwegian grocery store, the price for a bottle of ketchup is displayed in terms of the price paid per package (64.90 kr) and the price paid per kilogram (111.90 kr). this allows customers to know how much they will pay and to quickly compare products that have different sizes of packages.
The units by which the yield of a crop is usually measured today are kilograms per hectare or bushels per acre.. Long-term cereal yields in the United Kingdom were some 500 kg/ha in Medieval times, jumping to 2000 kg/ha in the Industrial Revolution, and jumping again to 8000 kg/ha in the Green Revolution. [1]
Loose tomatoes for sale at a UK greengrocer in 2013, dual-priced in imperial (£0.99 /lb) and metric (£2.18 /kg) units. Signs like these do not comply with legislation, as metric prices must not be less prominent. [1] [2] Metrication is the act or process of converting to the metric system of measurement.
It yielded a harvest of more than 32,000 tomatoes, together weighing 522 kg (1,151 lb). [112] [113] The town of Buñol, Spain, annually celebrates La Tomatina, a festival centered on an enormous tomato fight. On 30 August 2007, as many as 40,000 Spaniards gathered to throw 115,000 kg (254,000 lb) of tomatoes at each other in the festival. [114]
Campari is a type of hybrid tomato noted for its juiciness, high sugar level, low acidity, and lack of mealiness. Camparis are deep red and larger than a pear or cherry tomato, but smaller and rounder than common plum tomatoes. They are often sold as "tomato-on-the-vine" (TOV) in supermarkets, a category of tomato that has become increasingly ...
Research from the Justus Liebig University Giessen show that small food production operations may cause even more environmental impact than bigger operations in terms of energy use per kilogram, even though food miles are lower. Case studies of lamb, beef, wine, apples, fruit juices and pork show that the concept of food miles is too simple to ...
Ad-Free AOL Mail offers you the AOL webmail experience minus paid ads, allowing you to focus on your inbox without distractions, for just $4.99 per month.
A beef tomato (British English) or beefsteak tomato (American English) [1] [2] is a large tomato. [1] Grown on the plant Solanum lycopersicum , it is one of the largest varieties of cultivated tomatoes, regularly at 20 cm (7.9 in) in diameter with some weighing 450 g (1 lb) or more. [ 3 ]