{"id":1411,"date":"2012-09-14T22:14:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T05:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/?p=1411"},"modified":"2012-10-31T17:35:34","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T00:35:34","slug":"flavors-of-fruits-and-vegetables-affected-by-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/flavors-of-fruits-and-vegetables-affected-by-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Flavors of fruits and vegetables affected by weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FB Posting:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/subscriber\/article\/0,33009,2121059,00.html\">Time article, Flavor Blast, 8\/17\/12<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link where you can actually read the article: <a href=\"http:\/\/healthland.time.com\/2012\/07\/27\/are-your-fruits-and-veggies-bursting-with-flavor-thank-the-drought\/\">Drought causes Flavor Blast<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, had a great graphic in the paper version of the mag, but it isn&#8217;t available online unfortunately. Highlights are:<br \/>\n<br \/>1) Sweeter: Photosynthesis speeds up during hot weather, which can boost an accumulation of sucrose and other natural sugars.<br \/>2) More Pungent: Stacked with sulfur compounds, which condense under intense sunlight (garlic, onions).<br \/>3) More Bitter: Chock-full of terpenoids, or aromatic compounds, that become especially concentrated during drought conditions (dill, carrots, fennel).<br \/>4) Spicier: Capsaicin levels spike under heat stress, making it easier for them to bond with the spicy receptors on your tongue.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, this is almost the Chinese Medicine Five Element model of flavors or tastes I just realized &#8211; only flavor missing is Salt! We need all five flavors or tastes in our diet to balance our organs &#8211; each taste nourishes or has an affinity for certain organs&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FB Posting: Time article, Flavor Blast, 8\/17\/12 Here&#8217;s the link where you can actually read the article: Drought causes Flavor Blast Hey, had a great graphic in the paper version of the mag, but it isn&#8217;t available online unfortunately. Highlights are: 1) Sweeter: Photosynthesis speeds up during hot weather, which can boost an accumulation of <a href='https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/flavors-of-fruits-and-vegetables-affected-by-weather\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[73,361,362],"class_list":["post-1411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foodtherapy","tag-diet","tag-drought","tag-garden-food-flavor","category-27-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcQuRZ-mL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1411"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1760,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1411\/revisions\/1760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paradiseacupuncture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}