Raw or Ripe: Which Banana Is More Nutritious?
Ripe and raw bananas each have their own nutritional benefits, and eating both can help keep chronic illness at bay.
Ripe and raw bananas each have their own nutritional benefits, and eating both can help keep chronic illness at bay.
Apples that sell for Tk 200 or more a kg in the market fetched just Tk 19.80 a kg at a Chattogram Customs auction, against a reserve price of Tk 166.
A nutritionist lists ten health benefits of amra, the vitamin C-rich hog plum now widely available in markets.
Priced out of fruit shops, shoppers in Dhaka are crowding roadside stalls near Sadarghat that sell sorted and half-rotten fruit at far lower prices.
A recipe for gorgora pitha, a steamed cake made with palm pulp, coconut, milk and rice flour dough.
After years of losses on Fazli mangoes, a Shibganj college teacher has started the district's first pineapple cultivation.
Fruit sellers outside Mugda Medical College Hospital are charging dengue patients' relatives well above prices elsewhere in Dhaka.
A Jagonews24 report from Thailand describes a country where fruit of every kind is cheap and plentiful and where some people eat more fruit than rice.
Mango prices in Sapahar, Naogaon, are rising at the end of the season, but farmers say they are still well below last year's and costs are higher.
Farmers in the southern guava belt around the floating markets of Jhalakathi, Barishal and Pirojpur say a lack of rain has cut this year's yield.
A simple home recipe for mango yogurt, set overnight from milk, sugar, sour yogurt and cooked mango purée.
Guava traders crowd the roadside canals leading to Bhimruli in Jhalokati, where prices are better this year but drought-hit flowering has cut the harvest.
Thanks to Amrapali and BARI varieties, mangoes are still plentiful in Dhaka's markets in August, though prices are rising as the season lengthens.