Trivia

[kristina]

Is it (sweet) potato or spinach or (green or red) peppers ?
Or is it avocado? Somehow I guess, it may be avocado...
(I am thinking of all the fruits and veggies I can't eat because of their high potassium...)

[Charlie B53]

Sorry, none of those things.  Although they are all good, and I can have them all cause my potassium generally runs low and I have to take supplements.

My sweet potatos grew an average size of 14 POUNDS each, two years .  Just amazing.  Every since then the deer have decided they really like to eat the leaves and vines,  I have been able to grow but a stub a couple of inches, no potatos at all.

Maybe I should EAT the deer!

[kristina]

Lemon or pineapple ?

[Charlie B53]

Sorry, no. Although both do have Vit C, not near as much as others.

Strange thing.  As a kid I couldn't eat fresh pineapple, only canned.  The acid level in fresh would set my teeth on 'edge', extremely painful.  I must have outgrown it as wife recently started buying fresh chunked, and I have been getting into it.  NOT BAD!!  So I've started getting into these fresh fruit salads, but have to limit myself as they do have LOTS of natural sugars which is course makes my blood sugar rise, a LOT.  Crank up the insulin.  Good thing I don't do this every day.

Would it be cheating if I posted a link to a food article on which foods contain the highest Vit C?

[kristina]

Hello Charlie, could you give us a hint... ?

[Charlie B53]

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/12-foods-vitamin-oranges/story?id=20729780#


Fruits, NOT vegetables.

[kristina]

Is it an orange ?

[Charlie B53]

LOL

No, an orange has been asked already, it is NOT an orange.  In fact, it is not even in the citrus family.

The article I linked shows THREE FRUITS, each HIGHER in vitimin C than oranges.  But this doesn't mean you should stop eating oranges, they ARE good for you.

[cariad]

I won't follow the link as I prefer to just guess. It's just as well if I'm wrong as I have no question at the ready.

Strawberry?
Papaya?
Persimmon?

I am trying to think what non-citrus fruits you might have on a salad, as those are the clues you've given. When you say salad, do you mean green leaves with dressing, or are you talking about a mix of fruits? (I have kids who have always balked at the word 'salad' because they immediately picture green leaves and tomato, so we got into the habit of calling fruit salad 'fruit melange' or 'fruit mix' and egg/tuna/chicken salad as 'egg/tuna/chicken mayo'. What a difference wording can make!)

[kristina]

Apples and pears ? (I am not giving up that easily... )

[Charlie B53]

Sorry Kristina, neither apples nor pears.

caraid nailed two of the three top fruits containing Vitamin C.

I always though that Strawberries were the top, and they are a great addition sliced into any salad, dinner greens or fruit salads.

But when I read this article just to be sure of my fact, I learned that Mango, papaya and pomegranate all are even higher in Vitimin C.

I have about 7 persimmon trees out back and  you really need to wait until they are falling off the tree ripe to really let the sugars fully develop, picked too soon wile seriously give you a pucker face.

[okarol]

Interesting.

Based on Weight
The vitamin C content of an orange is measured in two ways: based on weight and based on serving size. An orange's vitamin C content based on weight is 53 mg per 100 g. Several domesticated fruits have a higher vitamin C content based on this type of measurement. These include barbados cherries (1,678 mg), black currants (155 to 215 mg, depending on variety), guavas (183 mg), yellow kiwis (120 to 180 mg, depending on variety), papayas (62 mg), strawberries (57 mg) and rosehip (1,150 to 2,500 mg, depending on species).
Fruits with More Vitamin C Based on Serving
Each orange slice contains 70 mg of vitamin C. Many fruits contain a higher amount of vitamin C per slice or serving. Guavas at 165 mg per slice have the most per serving, followed closely by yellow kiwis at 108 to 162 mg per slice. In some cases, certain varieties of rosehip also have more vitamin C per slice than do oranges, up to 75 mg.

[Charlie B53]

Wow, we go through most of our life thinking of the citrus as being the suppliers of our Vit C, and it's a big surprise to find so much is in so many other edibles.

I grew up in the fruit orchards around Yakima, WA.  Haven't heard of the Barbados Cherry and have to wonder if other cherries also have elevated levels of C?  I'd swear I ate TONS! Squirt like a duck in season picking fruit in the orchards as a teen.

Yellow kiwi, I've only seen/ate green here in the U.S., but then I don't know, or never noticed.

Aren't rose hips 'processed'?  Wife's bushes I clip off the hips when the flower wilts and falls, wouldn't think of trying to chew on it. Use my little mini-tiller and mix them into the top couple inches of soil.  Figure the plant took that out of the ground that it needs to go back into the ground, decay, and be recycled.  The roses always grow fine every year.  But I'm a mechanic/machinist, what do I know about plants, only that they grow.

[cariad]

Am I supposed to ask a question now? It doesn't look like I did answer the last question right after all, but Charlie himself did tell me it was my go, so I shall press on with this question:

Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev and Vladislav Volkov were the first people to die in this location. Where was it?

[cassandra]

I Googled it, so I leave answering to the real answerers, but how interesting. Thanx cariad

       

[galvo]

I haven't spoken to Mr Google; so I'll just have a punt. Chernoble?

[Charlie B53]

Google and I are on very good terms.

I knew these names a long time ago.  So long that I have forgotten, but then again, I have little to no memory left.

They were very brave men.

[cariad]

I haven't spoken to Mr Google; so I'll just have a punt. Chernoble?

Sorry, galvo, not Chernobyl. You are right to see their nationality as a hint, though.

A bit more information that may give a hint: The year of their demise was 1971, and while they were the first and only people to die here so far, I have no doubt that they will not be the last....

[UkrainianTracksuit]

I didn't expect to see this kind of question here so I will randomly answer it. 

The three men were crew members of Soyuz 11 on their way to board Salyut 1 (or Салют-1): the first space station in space.  The disaster happened when they were planning for re-entry back to Earth... so I'm pretty sure the proper answer is first people to die outside of the Earth's atmosphere.

I didn't sleep during that lesson at school. 

[cariad]

Excellent answer, UT! Yes, I thought you would know the answer - to date they are the only humans to die in outer space, I believe this is recognised the world over as 100km above sea level.

Now it's your turn to ask us a question! 

[UkrainianTracksuit]

A short and easy question following the topic of cosmonauts and space exploration.  [Thanks for the idea, cariad.]

Marfusha, Otvazhnaya and Snezhinka went into space on July 2, 1959 aboard a R2-A rocket.  They successfully returned.  Two were dogs; what was the species of the third animal?

[galvo]

A monkey?

[UkrainianTracksuit]

No, sorry galvo, not a monkey!

[kristina]

I must have been an animal that always gets along well with dogs, so it can't have been a cat...
... I am still trying to guess ...

[kristina]

Could it have been a hamster or a rabbit?