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A single pair of premium melons fetched a record 3.2 million yen ($29,300) at A May 26 auction in Japan, where the fruit is regarded as a status symbol.

Handmade gourd art pieces in Turkey’s Tunceli amaze visitors

You can make your own natural sexual Viagra by mixing some common fruits. All you’ll need for this formula is a watermelon and a lemon. Watermelon includes citrulline and lycopene, two molecules that are considered aphrodisiac. Start by chopping a watermelon and using a juicer to get about 1L of watermelon juice. Next, pour the juice into a saucepan.

It used to be that families got together to carve pumpkins with their kids. But times are changing, meaning less time and more demands as far as pumpkins are concerned. That’s why Halloween is big business for artist Marc Evan, co-founder of Maniac Pumpkin Carvers with fellow artist Chris Soria, and another 10 carvers.

Feeding the 5000, a flagship campaigning even and celebratory feast is aimed at drawing attention to the amount of edible food thrown away. Athens has joined the food waste revolution with its own event that takes place from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. at Kotzia Square on Sunday, October 11.

Every time I look at the face of Foody, I find myself embarrassingly staring at its bulbous nose. The focus point of Foody's face is definitely the nose; a plump garlic, ribbed with six fat cloves.

It is generally acknowledged that some types of foods are more addictive than others. The findings of a study conducted on 504 volunteers by the University of Michigan indicated that Pizza topped the list. The participants were asked to try 35 foods and rank them from least to most addictive.

Producers of Turkey?s most delicious and biggest watermelon species are standing guard in their fields to prevent harm from befalling their produce ahead of next month?s watermelon ?beauty contest? in the southeastern province of Diyarbak?r. 

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The European Commission on Aug. 18 announced a series of exceptional measures to help growers hit by a Russian ban on fruit and vegetable imports.
      
The products in question are in full harvesting season, with little hope of finding alternative markets to replace demand from Russia in time, the Commission said.