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"They were hardly eating lychees at that age," he said.

Around half the 73 urine samples collected from the kids in hospitals showed up positive for MCPG and hypoglycin A—and so did all of the lychees collected, with higher concentrations in unripe lychees.

As the sun rose, they ate mangoes and lychees on the sand.

They also collected lychees from the orchards near the highest concentration of cases.

As for you, reader: don't eat too many lychees on an empty stomach.

A recent report revealed they are probably due to toxins from unripe lychees.

The sick kids were also more likely to have eaten unripe or rotten lychees.

But one aspect of the festival gets little attention: Why lychees with dog meat?

But an investigation found that compounds in lychees can be fatal for malnourished children.

Muzaffarpur is a major hub for growing lychees, which ripen at this time of year.

The children who ate lychees on an empty stomach were found to get more sick.

They hope the industry and lawmakers work to develop guidance for those planning to eat lychees.

Some studies have blamed toxins in lychees, a fruit grown in abundance in orchards around Muzaffarpur.

And this time, doctors say they are finding many cases in which lychees were not a factor.

Still, another doctor visiting Muzaffarpur from India's financial capital of Mumbai said eating lychees could exacerbate dehydration symptoms.

But lychees are not the only produce with the potential to poison us if eaten too early or unprocessed.

Yet in the southern city of Yulin crowds still flocked recently to an annual festival of lychees and dog meat.

But they've risen again this year, and doctors caution that in many of the cases, lychees were not a factor.

However, Spencer and Palmer worried that similar cases may pop up in other places with lots of lychees and malnourished children.

Who knew that the breast meat of a bird could melt in your mouth, and that it pairs splendidly with lychees?

Though orchards were typically guarded by caretakers, children often ate lychees that were unripe or that had fallen to the ground.

Critics say the festival itself may have been a marketing ploy started around 2009 to increase sales of dog meat and lychees.

So if you want to ship flowers, hearts of palm, lychees, whatever, it has to go through the airport and get inspected.

For anyone unfamiliar with lychees, they're a fruit that has roots in China, but the lychee's popularity has spread throughout all of Asia.

Lychees are locally grown in the subtropical clime, and the concept of "yire gongre," or using heat to attack heat, is also prevalent.

It is easy to find families here who have been struck by the disease but are sure that lychees are not the reason.

The drink is "a little bit exotic and made with fresh, hand-peeled lychees, lemongrass and a little bit of cinnamon," Jarvis said.

Eating dog meat and lychees during the summer solstice, they argue, is a longstanding local custom, and no different from eating cows or pigs.

Recent studies have suggested that natural toxins in lychees could harm undernourished children by blocking their ability to produce enough blood sugar, which can lead to death.

But if lychees are to blame, some ask, why are there no cases in other lychee-growing areas in India, or in other countries, for that matter?

She went to bed on an empty stomach but had not eaten lychees that day, Ms. Devi said; she woke up convulsing and died the next day.

Officials have now recommended children in the area around Muzaffarpur limit their consumption of lychees and always eat an evening meal—and these recommendations seem to be working.

JOHANNESBURG/LONDON (Reuters) - A family-owned grocery chain selling lychees and almond milk would have been an unlikely target when giant private equity funds were spending big in Africa.

Many of us eat "new fruits" — New York City groceries stock up on lychees and star fruits and pomegranates in anticipation — to, yes, celebrate the newness of the year.

A vendor with lychees in India (Image: AP)Since 733, hundreds of poor children in Muzaffarpur, India have mysteriously suffered seizures and feelings of brain fogginess, usually in the morning.

Retired virologist T. Jacob John also raised the possibility that encephalitis cases in Muzaffarpur could be associated with lychees in a 2014 study published by Indian science journal Current Science.

Some studies have blamed toxins in lychees, a fruit grown in abundance in orchards around Muzaffarpur, though many families told Reuters their children had not eaten them in recent weeks.

The effect increases if a person who eats them is malnourished; those eating unripe lychees out of hunger or desperation—which could increase with climate change—would be more affected.

Researchers who conduced a study of 390 children who fell sick in 2014 in Muzaffarpur said that lychees contained hypoglycin A, an amino acid that can disrupt metabolism, lowering blood sugar levels.

Ms. Huda, who lived in the city of Dhaka before moving to New York in 2009, used to grow mangos, lychees, spinach and beans on the roof of her apartment building there.

It also produces a liquor infused with elderberry, lychees and saffron that sells for nearly 40 euros ($44.90) a bottle, and even comes in a non-alcoholic version for sale to Muslim countries.

A date has been set for this year's Yulin Dog Meat Festival, an annual summer solstice festival in Southern China during which an estimated 10,000 dogs are killed and consumed, along with lychees.

A recent message circulating in India's northeast starts by saying the deadly brain-damaging Nipah virus has arrived in Shillong city and advises parents to keep children away from lychees, a popular summer fruit.

The link to the fruit, however, is inconclusive, said Alok Ghosh, the Muzaffarpur district magistrate, who said that in about half of the more than 400 known cases of encephalitis, the children had not consumed lychees.

In 2015, as a result of the investigation, health officials began urging parents in the area to be sure to feed young children an evening meal and to limit their consumption of lychees (sometimes spelled litchi).

TANSEN, Nepal (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In south-central Nepal's Palpa district, which spans from the country's hillsides to its southern lowlands, farmers can grow a huge range of crops, from coffee to paddy rice, lychees to wheat.

Year-over-year data for overall fruit sales was not available at time of publication, but the firm said sales in the category did increase 15% in May from the prior month, led by lychees, bananas and watermelon.

Low boulders now sit in place to help shelter Cocles, with its reggae bar and cafes serving rice and beans, where tourists cycle past fruit stalls selling lychees and soursop and signs warn of sloths crossing the beach road.

In front of her was a rainbow of fruit from the tropics — pink-red lychees, ruby rambutans, yellow mangos, pale green Taiwanese guava and fuchsia dragon fruit — sitting atop three tables on the sidewalk of Mulberry Street near Canal.

It was composed of two discs of almond-meringue batter, tinted pink, baked crisp on the outside and tender in the center, sandwiching a rose-flavored cream that cushioned bits of lychees, a fruit remarkably complementary to rose and raspberry.

The most elaborate and prettiest is the vacherin of passion-fruit cream sandwiched by white spirals of meringue; there's a white chocolate sphere painted with a metallic swirl like a pink pearl, and a marvelous scoop of sorbet made with fresh lychees.

And participants who got the lowest levels of vitamin C at the start of the study were 93 percent more likely to develop frailty than individuals who consumed the most foods rich in vitamin C like broccoli, Brussels sprouts, lemons and lychees.

The juice of organic mangosteens—a vitamin-rich fruit from South-East Asia, similar to lychees—can sell for an exorbitant $35 or more a litre, more than ten times the price of organic orange juice, on the promise to reduce pain and boost energy.

One suggested cause is that they are being sickened from toxic chemicals in unripe lychees, which can cause dramatic drops in blood sugar and encephalopathy, or damage from swelling of the brain, Padmini Srikantiah of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention office in India told CNN.

East West Brewing Company, a slick two-story newcomer with an on-site brewery smack in the middle of District 1, has been making batches of sparkling ales with lychees, IPAs with calamansi limes, wheat stouts with Asian pears, and porters with organic Vietnamese coffee beans and palm sugar.

It turns out that compared with kids who didn't suffer symptoms, the odds were 9.6 times greater that a stricken kid had eaten lychees, 6.0 times greater that the kid had visited a lychee orchard, and 2.2 times greater that the kid had missed dinner the night before.

As the office chat start-up prepared to go public, some of us are still figuring out how available we want to be — and whether it's O.K. to ping the C.E.O. • A Mystery Disease Is Killing Children, and Questions Linger About Lychees: Researchers said the fruit was behind the annual outbreaks of a fatal syndrome in Eastern India.

The menu, too, was simple — with a twist: The chef Lori Stern piled Astier de Villatte platters high with farmers' market crudités, served with emerald-green herb dip; added touches like fresh lychees and edible dried hibiscus flowers (the national flower of South Korea) to the cheese board; and served trench-coat-shape cookies, hand-painted with cocoa and accented with a dark cacao collar.

Lychees have moderate amounts of polyphenols, including flavan-3-ol monomers and dimers as major compounds representing about 87% of total polyphenols, which declined in content during storage or browning. Lychees naturally produce butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT). Cyanidin-3-glucoside represented 92% of total anthocyanins.

Waterfall at Phnom Kulen. The Phnom Kulen mountain range is located northwards from Angkor Wat. Its name means "mountain of the lychees".Rooney, 2005, pp.

After the fruit has been pierced, it is vulnerable to fungi and other micro- organisms. Piercing occurs on oranges, lemons and other citrus as well as lychees and longans.

The fruit is sweet, juicy and succulent in superior agricultural varieties. The seed and the peel are not consumed. Apart from being eaten raw like other fruits, longan fruit is also often used in Asian soups, snacks, desserts, and sweet- and-sour foods, either fresh or dried, and sometimes preserved and canned in syrup. The taste is different from lychees; while longan have a drier sweetness similar to dates, lychees are often messily juicy with a more tropical, grape-like sour sweetness.

Aleatico wines are characterized by the aroma of roses, a trait they share with Muscat blanc à Petits Grains. Other aroma notes commonly include various berry fruits and lychees. Aleatico wines tend to have high alcohol content balanced by the grape's acidity.

Chinese migrants also introduced a number of different plants and animals to the island, including a Chinese variety of the guava known locally and in Mauritius and the Seychelles as goyave de Chine. Réunion is famous for its lychees, also from China.

West Woombye is in the Sunshine Coast hinterland. The surrounding suburbs include Towen Mountain, Hunchy, Dulong, Palmwoods and Coes Creek. There is farming within the area with crops such as lychees, macadamias, mangoes and avocados grown. The main road running through West Woombye is Blackall Range Road.

It is rich of weeds, such as ammannia and sesbania, and other plants and trees like mango orchards, palmyra and date palms, siris, jackfruits and red cotton trees. The cultivated area produces bananas, lychees, mango, bamboo, rice, sugarcane and other food grains. A canal passes from Laxmanpur for irrigation.

Indeed, Gewürztraminer and lychees share the same aroma compounds. Dry Gewürztraminers may also have aromas of roses, passion fruit and floral notes. It is not uncommon to notice some spritz (fine bubbles on the inside of the glass). Gewürztraminer's sweetness may offset the spice in Southeast Asian cuisine.

Germinating lychee seed with its main root (about 3 months old) A normal-sized seed (left) and a small-sized (Chicken tongue) seed (right) Lychees are extensively grown in southern China, Taiwan, Vietnam and the rest of tropical Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, and in tropical regions of many other countries. They require a tropical climate that is frost-free and is not below the temperature of . Lychees require a climate with high summer heat, rainfall, and humidity, growing optimally on well-drained, slightly acidic soils rich in organic matter and mulch. Some 200 cultivars exist, with early and late maturing forms suited to warmer and cooler climates, respectively, although mainly eight cultivars are used for commerce in China.

The investigation linked the illness to hypoglycin A and MCPG toxicity, and to malnourished children eating lychees (particularly unripe ones) on an empty stomach. The CDC report recommended that parents ensure their children limit lychee consumption and have an evening meal, elevating blood glucose levels that may be sufficient to deter illness. Earlier studies had incorrectly concluded that transmission may occur from direct contact with lychees contaminated by bat saliva, urine, or guano or with other vectors, such as insects found in lychee trees or sand flies, as in the case of Chandipura virus. A 2017 study found that pesticides used in the plantations could be responsible for the encephalitis and deaths of young children in Bangladesh.

The festival is celebrated annually in Yulin, Guangxi, China, during the summer solstice in June, by eating dog meat and lychees. Early on, it was reported that roughly 10,000 dogs had been consumed for each annual occurrence of the festival. This number is estimated by some to have decreased to 1,000 in 2015.

Australian farmers rely heavily on the introduced western honey bee to pollinate their crops. For some crops, though, native bees may be better pollinators. Stingless bees have been shown to be valuable pollinators of crops such as macadamias and mangos. They may also benefit strawberries, watermelons, citrus, avocados, lychees, and many others.

Typical lychees used for lychee wine production are Feizixiao, mainly in Guangdong, China, considered to be the noblest variety by Chinese winemakers. The fragrance, sugar and acid content of lychee are the main factors of wine quality. Many vintners are experimenting with making lychee wine from other varieties, such as Nuomici and Sanyuehong.

One of the most widely told legends associated with lychee pork concerns one of the concubines of the Xuanzong Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Consort Mei of the Jiang clan, whose hometown was Putian, Fujian. Because of the considerable distance from the Imperial Court to her hometown, she frequently grew homesick, and only lychees from her hometown could cure of her despondency. She also employed a chef, Jiang (), who devised an ingenious way of cooking meat so that it resembled one of these lychees, and from then on it became a delicacy in her palace. Although Consort Mei was killed in the Anshi Rebellion, the tradition goes that the chef escaped and fled back to Fujian, bringing it to the populace.

Some preferred fruits include ripe guava, banana, chikoo, dates, and lychees. Short-nosed fruit bats inflict serious damage on many fruit crops, and are considered pests. In addition, these bats are possible vectors for Japanese encephalitis, which is serious disease in humans. These bats are important dispersers of date palm seeds, and pollinate many night blooming flowers.

Euro banknotes and coins of various denominations. The new coins and notes were first valid on the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. The first official purchase using euro coins and notes took place there, for one kilogram of lychees. The coming of midnight in Frankfurt at the ECB offices, though, symbolised the transition.

Muzaffarpur () is a city located in Muzaffarpur district in the Tirhut region of the Indian state of Bihar. It serves as the headquarters of the Tirhut division, the Muzaffarpur district and the Muzaffarpur Railway District. It is the fourth most populous city in Bihar. Muzaffarpur is famous for Shahi lychees and is known as the Lychee Kingdom.

A Betsimisarakian hen house and a rice barn in 1911, Fenerive. Photo by Walter Kaudern. The Betsimisaraka economy remains largely agricultural, with many cultivating vanilla and rice. Manioc, sweet potatoes, beans, taro, peanuts and a variety of greens are also commonly cultivated; other staple crops include sugar cane, coffee, bananas, pineapples, avocado, breadfruit, mangoes, oranges and lychees.

Madagascar is the world's principal supplier of vanilla, cloves and ylang-ylang. Madagascar supplies 80% of the world's natural vanilla. Other key agricultural resources include coffee, lychees and shrimp. Key mineral resources include various types of precious and semi-precious stones, and Madagascar currently provides half of the world's supply of sapphires, which were discovered near Ilakaka in the late 1990s.

Another well-known Australian apple variety is the Cripps Pink, known locally and internationally as "Pink Lady" apples, which was first cultivated in 1973. Fruits cultivated and consumed in Australia include: apples, banana, kiwifruit, oranges and other citrus, mangoes (seasonally), mandarin, stonefruit, avocado, watermelons, rockmelons, lychees, pears, nectarines, plums, apricots, grapes, melons, papaya (also called pawpaw), pineapple, passionfruit and berries (strawberries, raspberries etc.).

While the species prefers temperatures that do not typically fall below , it can withstand brief temperature drops to about . Longans usually bear fruit slightly later than lychees. Longan being peeled and eaten. The wild longan population have been decimated considerably by large-scale logging in the past, and the species used to be listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.

The Lychee and Dog Meat Festival (or Yulin Dog Meat Festival) is an annual festival held in Yulin, Guangxi, China, during the summer solstice in which festival goers eat dog meat and lychees. The festival began in 2009 and spans about ten days during which thousands of dogs are reportedly consumed. The festival has drawn criticism both domestically and abroad.

Winifred also damaged $4.9 million in papaws, and $3.8 million in avocados, lychees, custard apples, flowers, and chokos, as well. Effects to dairy and poultry industries were less severe, with losses reported at $2 million and $600,000, respectively. Winds uprooted large swaths of forest, with $1 million in damage at government-owned forests alone. Ecological damage was widespread but generally mild.

The province is located in the Red River Delta of north-eastern Vietnam, about mid-distance from Hanoi to Haiphong. Two famous pagodas, Côn Sơn and Kiếp Bạc, are situated in this province. The province is known for its lychees and for the traditional sweet bánh đậu xanh (mung bean paste). Hải Dương is located in the center of North Vietnam.

Eco Destination, Department of Tourism, Government of Meghalaya Agriculture is the chief occupation of the local population, with betel nut being the main crop. During summers, one can find pineapples and lychees which are then exported to the nearby regions as well.The people residing in the community are Khasi people. The population is mostly Christian and the village has three churches.

After peeling, the lychees are lightly or fully crushed. Crushers usually consist of several stainless steel rollers and gaps. They can be adjusted to different modes, light, strong or no crushing, depending on the winemaker's preference. The mix of lychee fruit and juice is then transferred to a vessel, usually a tank made of stainless steel or glass for fermentation.

The warm and moist climate and fertile land in the prefecture of Ningde provide it with favorable conditions for agriculture. The largest agricultural exports from Ningde include mushroom and tea. The area also produces large quantities of various fruits, such as shaddocks, Chinese chestnuts, plums, honey peaches, lychees and longans. Tea cultivation has long been an important industry of Ningde.

Henri Boulard was a French scientist and microbiologist who discovered the yeast Saccharomyces boulardii in 1923. He noticed people chewing on the skins of lychees and mangosteens to treat diarrhea during a cholera epidemic. He isolated and identified this strain of yeast, a probiotic. He sold his patented strain of saccharomyces boulardii to Biocodex, a French pharmaceutical company in the 1950s.

He began experimenting with tropical fruits and fruit trees that were usually found in climates warmer than that part of Southern California. Thomson initially planted papayas, lychees, mangoes, longans and other tropical species on his new farm. However, most of his attempts to grow these fruits were a failure due to freezing temperatures during the winters. For example, mangoes could not survive the winter climate in Bonsall.

Bắc Giang's land area is primarily dedicated to agriculture. The province is becoming known as a producer of fruit, particularly pineapples and lychees. Around a quarter of Bắc Giang's land area is devoted to forestry. Located from Hanoi, the province is within both the Hanoi-Hải Phong-Quảng Ninh Economic Corridor, and the Nam Ninh-Lạng Sơn-Hanoi-Hải Phong-Quảng Ninh Economic Corridor.

According to folklore, a lychee tree that is not producing much fruit can be girdled, leading to more fruit production. When the central opening of trees is carried out as part of training and pruning, stereo fruiting can be achieved for higher orchard productivity. Lychees are commonly sold fresh in Asian markets. The red rind turns dark brown when the fruit is refrigerated, but the taste isn't affected.

With the advice of Consort Mei, Yuhuan forgives Li Mao and gives up being a nun at the convent. She reluctantly accepts the Emperor's feelings and is given the honorable title of Guifei (First rank consort). The Emperor desperately tries to gain Yuhuan's love, and he sends her gifts, such as hand picked lychees from Chang'an. He planted lychee trees in her yard, and she reciprocates his feelings.

LycheeAlso sometimes spelled litchi, liechee, liche, lizhi, li zhi, or lichee. (US: ; UK: ; Litchi chinensis; ) is the sole member of the genus Litchi in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. It is a tropical tree native to the Guangdong and Fujian provinces of southeastern China, where cultivation is documented from the 11th century. China is the main producer of lychees, followed by India, other countries in Southeast Asia, the Indian Subcontinent and South Africa.

Hypoglycin A is a naturally occurring amino acid derivative found in the unripened fruit of the Ackee tree (Blighia sapida) and in the seeds of the box elder tree (Acer negundo). It is toxic if ingested, and is the causative agent of Jamaican vomiting sickness. A 2017 Lancet report established a link between the consumption of unripened lychees (containing hypoglycin A or methylenecyclopropylglycine (MCPG)) resulting in hypoglycaemia and death from acute toxic encephalopathy.

Exotische vruchten kweken by Dr Gabriele Lehari This (rather hot than moderately hot) water kills any organisms that may have survived on the skin of a seed. Especially with easily infected tropical fruit such as lychees and rambutans, seed washing with high- temperature water is vital. In addition to the mentioned seed pretreatments, seed germination is also assisted when a disease-free soil is used. Especially when trying to germinate difficult seed (e.g.

In 2014, trade between Madagascar and South Africa totaled $320 million USD.Minister's Visit to Boost South Africa-Madagascar Relationship Madagascar's main exports to South Africa include: Lychees, coal and textiles.Madagascar launches export of Litchis to South Africa South Africa's main exports to Madagascar include: machinery and mechanical appliances; vehicles, aircraft and transport equipment; foodstuffs and beverages; and chemical products. South African multinational companies such as Ceres Fruit Juices and Shoprite operate in Madagascar.

Dalrymple Bay, south of Mackay is another port where coal and sugar is exported. It also contains the inland city of Charters Towers and the coastal towns of Ayr and Ingham. The Burdekin is centred on the two towns of Ayr and Home Hill and while producing the largest amount of sugar, also produces seasonal fruit such as Lychees and Mangos in Summer/wet season. Other communities in North Queensland include Home Hill, Sarina, Bowen, Ayr, and Proserpine.

He was able to finally grow successful harvests of mangoes, cherimoyas, lychees and other fruits. The Los Angeles Times reported in 1971 that Thomson was able to grow 96 separate types of fruit between his two orchards in Bonsall and Edgehill. Most of these fruits had not been widely grown in the United States before Thomson planted them on his properties. Thomson grew the first successful Mammee apple crop, also known as the South American apricot or the mamey, of note in California.

A common aroma associated with the grape variety Gewürztraminer is that of lychee fruit. In professional wine tasting, there is generally a distinction made between "aromas" and a wine's "bouquet" while in casual wine tasting these two terms are used interchangeably. An aroma refers to the smells unique to the grape variety and are most readily demonstrated in a varietal wine – such as lychees with Gewürztraminer or black currant with Cabernet Sauvignon. These are smells that are commonly associated with a young wine.

The formal economy is based almost exclusively on nickel mining operations, with two local mines - Maï at Poro the Ballande mines at Bâ. Locals can train for mining jobs at the CFTMC in Poro. Service activities include the local administration and gendarmerie, schools, several small shops and other facilities. Houailou Runway New Caledonia Local Kanak tribes have traditionally operated a semi subsistence economy, with some waged labour, migrant income, and substantial cultivation. Houaïlou's farmers produce Lychees, a fruit introduced by a colonist from Réunion, Jolimont Kabar.

Numerous crops are grown throughout Mareeba Shire, including avocados, mangoes, lychees, longans, sugar cane, cashews, macadamias, bananas, pineapples, tea tree oil, coffee, cotton and a variety of vegetables and tropical fruits. Poultry and cattle are also common. Tobacco was once the main grown crop of the local economy, but is no longer grown within the Mareeba shire. The town's main street is the Mulligan Highway which branches off from the Kennedy Highway when coming in from Cairns (63.3 km; 40 miles) away passing localities such as Speewah, Kuranda and The Barron Gorge.

Polyols are found naturally in some fruit (particularly stone fruits), including apples, apricots, avocados, blackberries, cherries, lychees, nectarines, peaches, pears, plums, prunes, watermelon, and in some vegetables, including cauliflower, mushrooms, and mange-tout peas. Cabbage, chicory, and fennel contain moderate amounts, but may be eaten in a low-FODMAP diet if the advised portion size is observed. Polyols used artificially as bulk sweeteners added to commercially-prepared food and beverages include isomalt, maltitol, mannitol, sorbitol and xylitol. As noted above, they exacerbate the effect of galactans when consumed.

Australia's wine regions are mainly in the southern, cooler parts of the country, in South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria, and Western Australia. Amongst the most famous wine districts are the Hunter Region, Margaret River, Yarra Valley, and Barossa Valley and among the best known wine producers are Penfolds, Rosemount Estate, Wynns Coonawarra Estate and Lindeman's. In Australia's tropical regions, wine is produced from exotic fruits such as mango, passion fruit and lychees. Rum served as a currency during the late 18th and early 19th centuries in Australia when metallic currency was in short supply.

Liwan District was named after "Lizhiwan", which is derived from poem of "a bay of green water and red lychees along both banks". It covers an area of and has a permanent population of about 540,000 and a permanent nonnative population of over 200,000. Liwan District is positioned in the flourishing west part of Guangzhou, on the northeast bank of the Pearl River. Liwan was originally a western suburb of Guangzhou known as Xiguan and Huadai/Huadi located in between two counties of Panyu County and Nanhai County.

This farm was established with aspirations of producing large quantities and high-quality lychees, by constantly monitoring sugar content and their seeds. This research, conducted by local agricultural universities allows for new methods to be used with hopes of reaching the needs of city consumers.Yeung, Yue-man. Urban Agriculture Research in East and Southeast Asia: Record, Capacities, and Opportunities Cities Feeding People CFP Report 6 (1993) The Chinese University of Hong Kong However, due to increased levels of economic growth and pollution, some urban farms have become threatened.

Tobacco remained the dominant crop until recent years when government policy compelled its demise. Recent attempts at alternative crops such as tea trees, mangoes, sugar cane, coffee, lemons, limes, avocados, papaws, papayas, peanuts, soya beans, lychees, grapes and cash crops (pumpkins, melons, etc.) have met with mixed success. Farming is a significant employment option in Dimbulah and many travelers, including backpackers, are employed as short-term farm labourers, particularly during the busy mango harvest from November to January. Holders of a working holiday visa may be eligible for an extension to their visa after a period of work on farms in the area.

Temperate fruits found in Madagascar include but are not limited to apples, lemons, pumpkins, watermelon, oranges, cherries and strawberries. Among the many tropical fruits commonly eaten in Madagascar are coconut, tamarind, mango, pineapple, avocado, passion fruit, and loquats, locally called pibasy (). Guava, longans, lychees, persimmon and "pok-pok" (also called voanantsindrana ), a fruit similar to a physalis, are common, while on the west coast the fruit of the baobab tree is eaten during the brief period when it becomes available near the end of the rainy season. Madagascar is known for its cocoa and vanilla, much of which are exported.

These have been cultivated in Sydney and form a distinctive and highly creative element, especially their use of indigenous species such as Port Jackson fig. The collection has inspired development of other collections in New South Wales and establishment of a Penjing Academy. The Chinese Garden of Friendship is significant for its aesthetic distinctiveness as the only example of a Southern style Chinese garden in New South Wales and Australia. Stylistic elements such as golden roof tiles, grey bricks, water bodies, granite bridges, natural rock sculptures, dragon wall and Mountain Gate exemplify the style, as do plantings such as lychees.

"Lici Fruit Tree" in Michal Boym's Flora Sinensis (1657) Cultivation of lychee began in the region of southern China, going back to 1059 AD, Malaysia, and northern Vietnam. Unofficial records in China refer to lychee as far back as 2000 BC. Wild trees still grow in parts of southern China and on Hainan Island. The fruit was used as a delicacy in the Chinese Imperial Court. In the 1st century during the Han dynasty, fresh lychees were a popular tribute item, and in such demand at the Imperial Court that a special courier service with fast horses would bring the fresh fruit from Guangdong.

Lychee - a dominant commercial fruit tree in Bắc Giang Province Lychees are a dominant fruit crop of Bắc Giang Province. It is grown in an area of in this province, out of a total area of in the country and the production is reported to be 20,248 tonnes. This variety originated from Hải Dương Province (Thanh Hà District) and is commercially cultivated in Lục Ngạn, Lục Nam and Yên Thế districts of the province, apart from other provinces in the country. According to the Research Institute of Fruits and Vegetables (RIFAV), 33 accessions have been identified as 33 cultivars of lychee grown in different locations in home gardens and consolidated farms.

Mooncake filling Fillings in contemporary style mooncakes has diversified to include just about anything which can be made into a paste. Mooncakes containing taro paste and pineapple, which were considered novelty items at their time of invention have in recent years become commonplace items. In addition, filling with ingredients such as coffee, chocolate, nuts (walnuts, mixed nuts, etc.), fruits (prunes, pineapples, melons, lychees, etc.), vegetables (sweet potatoes, etc.), and even ham have been added to give a modern twist to the traditional recipes. Some other examples include Traditional Chinese delicacies such as ginseng and bird's nest were soon followed by abalone and shark fin.

Gewürztraminer vine and grapes 'Gewürztraminer () is an aromatic wine grape variety, used in white wines, and performs best in cooler climates. In English, it is sometimes referred to colloquially as Gewürz (; although this is never the case in German, because "Gewürz" means "herb" or "spice"), and in French it is written ' (without the umlaut). Gewürztraminer is a variety with a pink to red skin colour, which makes it a "white wine grape" as opposed to the blue to black-skinned varieties commonly referred to as "red wine grapes". The variety has high natural sugar and the wines are white and usually off- dry, with a flamboyant bouquet of lychees.

Sumatran orangutans are primarily frugivores, favoring fruits consisting of a large seed and surrounded by a fleshy substance, such as durians, lychees, jackfruit, breadfruit, and fig fruits. Insects are also a huge part of the orangutan's diet; the most consumed types are ants, predominantly of the genus Camponotus (at least four species indet.). Their main diet can be broken up into five categories: fruits, insects, leaf material, bark and other miscellaneous food items. Studies have shown that orangutans in the Ketambe area in Indonesia ate over 92 different kinds of fruit, 13 different kinds of leaves, 22 sorts of other vegetable material such as top-sprouts, and pseudo- bulbs of orchids.

Fruit commonly grown in Taiwan are tropical and plentiful including lychees, pengkan tangerines, hseukan tangerines, oranges, bananas, grapes, betel nuts, kaochie pear, plum, peach, starfruit, persimmon, guava, papaya, mango, lemon, Indian dates, pineapples, coconuts, apricots, and loquat. Grain and Vegetable crops are mainly cultivated in Northern Taiwan. Rice and vegetables are grown in large paddies in the lowlands of the TTa'an river, plains of Miaoli and Hsinchu counties, the Hungli and Taoyen terraces, the Taipei basin, and the Ilan plain. The vegetables grown in these areas consist of kale, mustard, Chinese cabbage, wengtsai, celery, cucumber, yucca, winter melon, pumpkin, eggplant, red bean, peas, tomatoes, radishes, ginger, taro, onion, leek, and garlic.

There was great demand for lychee in the Song Dynasty (960-1279), according to Cai Xiang, in his Li chi pu (Treatise on Lychees). It was also the favourite fruit of Emperor Li Longji (Xuanzong)'s favoured concubine Yang Yuhuan (Yang Guifei). The emperor had the fruit delivered at great expense to the capital. The lychee attracted attention of European travellers, such as Juan González de Mendoza in his History of the great and mighty kingdom of China (1585; English translation 1588), based on the reports of Spanish friars who had visited China in the 1570s gave the fruit high praise:Juan González de Mendoza, The history of the great and mighty kingdom of China and the situation thereof.

His singularly grotesque interpretation of the excesses of nouvelle cuisine includes dishes such as saveloy on a bed of lychees, liver in lager and pork cyst. During the afternoon, whilst the rest of the family are out at work, Nicola's lover (unnamed, played by David Thewlis) comes to the family home to have sex with her. It appears that Nicola only can be aroused by a combination of light bondage and the consumption of chocolate spread from her chest – a practice to which he only reluctantly agrees. He ultimately loses patience with her, accusing her of being "a bit vacant" and incapable of having a sincere, adult conversation or allowing herself to enjoy his companionship.

Israel is one of the world's leading fresh citrus producers and exporters,Ladaniya, Milind, Citrus fruit: biology, technology and evaluation, Elsevier Inc., (2008) pp. 3-4, and more than forty types of fruit are grown in Israel, including citrus fruits such as oranges, grapefruit, tangerines and the pomelit, a hybrid of a grapefruit and a pomelo, developed in Israel.Israeli fruit hybrid lowers cholesterol in Israel 21c Innovation News Service, Retrieved 2010-02-11 Fruits grown in Israel include avocados, bananas, apples, cherries, plums, lychees, nectarines, grapes, dates, strawberries, prickly pear (tzabbar), persimmon, loquat (shesek) and pomegranates, and are eaten on a regular basis: Israelis consume an average of nearly of fruit per person a year.

The annual production of fruit wine in the world is about 30 million tons. The annual production of lychee fruit in Guangdong Province is more than 5 million tons. If all the fresh lychees produced in Guangdong are used for winemaking, only 1.5 million tons of lychee wine can be produced. In the domestic market in China, Guangdong ’s annual consumption of fruit wine amounts to 300 thousand tons, but China ’s per capita annual consumption of fruit wine is only 0.2 to 0.3 L, which is a big gap between the world ’s per capita consumption of 6 L. Right now, there are not many manufacturers of lychee wine in China, and most of them manufacturers' production is relatively small.

Common fruits that were consumed included melons, pomegranates, lychees, longans, golden oranges, jujubes, quinces, apricots and pears; in the region around Hangzhou alone, there were eleven kinds of apricots and eight different kinds of pears that were produced.West, 86.West, 73-74. Specialties and combination dishes in the Song period included scented shellfish cooked in rice-wine, geese with apricots, lotus-seed soup, spicy soup with mussels and fish cooked with plums, sweet soya soup, baked sesame buns stuffed with either sour bean filling or pork tenderloin, mixed vegetable buns, fragrant candied fruit, strips of ginger and fermented beanpaste, jujube-stuffed steamed dumplings, fried chestnuts, salted fermented bean soup, fruit cooked in scented honey, and 'honey crisps' of kneaded and baked honey, flour, mutton fat and pork lard.

Common fruits that were consumed included melons, pomegranates, lychees, longans, golden oranges, jujubes, Chinese and Japanese quinces, apricots and pears; in the region around Hangzhou alone, there were eleven kinds of apricots and eight different kinds of pears that were produced.West, 73–74. Specialties and combination dishes in the Song period included scented shellfish cooked in rice-wine, geese with apricots, lotus- seed soup, spicy soup with mussels and fish cooked with plums, sweet soya soup, baked sesame buns stuffed with either sour bean filling or pork tenderloin, mixed vegetable buns, fragrant candied fruit, strips of ginger and fermented beanpaste, jujube-stuffed steamed dumplings, fried chestnuts, salted fermented bean soup, fruit cooked in scented honey, and 'honey crisps' of kneaded and baked honey, flour, mutton fat and pork lard.West, 73.

The Yongzheng Emperor died on 8 October 1735 and was succeeded by Hongli, who was enthroned as the Qianlong Emperor. Around the time, Gao Bin wrote a memorial to the Yongzheng Emperor, thanking him for a bunch of lychees, but it was too late as the emperor had already died when the memorial reached the palace, so the Qianlong Emperor replied in place of his father: On 23 January 1738, Lady Gao was granted the title "Noble Consort". As she was the only woman in the imperial harem holding the rank of Noble Consort at the time, she did not receive any special title to distinguish her from the emperor's other consorts. On 23 February 1745, when Lady Gao became critically ill, she was elevated to "Imperial Noble Consort" by the Qianlong Emperor.

Fruit is not only eaten on its own, but often served with spicy dips made from sugar, salt, and chilies. Fruits feature in spicy salads such as som tam (green papaya salad) and yam som-o (pomelo salad), in soups with tamarind juice such as tom khlong and kaeng som, and in Thai curries such as kaeng kanun (jackfruit curry), kaeng pet phet yang (grilled duck curry with pineapple or grapes), and kaeng pla sapparot (fish and pineapple curry). Fruits are also used in certain Thai chili pastes, such as in nam phrik long rue made with madan (a close relative of the mangosteen), and nam phrik luk nam liap, salted black Chinese olive chilli paste. Although many of the exotic fruits of Thailand may have been sometimes unavailable in Western countries, Asian markets now import such fruits as rambutan and lychees.