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What is melamine, and can dairy products containing melamine be used to make organic fertilizer?
Melamine dealt a severe blow to dairy products, and the public dared not consume them. If tainted milk powder is used as fertilizer, will it be absorbed by crops and affect human health? Melamine is a nitrogen-containing organic compound produced from urea as a raw material; it is biodegradable, and after being decomposed into urea by microorganisms, it does not harm plants.
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How should you eat olive oil to make it healthy and suitable?
Which kind of oil do you buy? Do you always buy very expensive oil? Actually, you do not need to. Let us take a look at this article below and see that some oils are expensive yet not worth the price. Choosing expensive olive oil to cook food is not necessarily healthier, beware of improper
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What harm can long-term consumption of substandard soy products cause?
The government health bureau recently conducted spot checks on Qingming festival foods sold on the market. Of 33 items, 5 were substandard. Among them, 4 soy products were found to contain residual hydrogen peroxide, and 1 peanut powder was found to contain aflatoxin exceeding the limit. The substandard rate was 15.2%. The health bureau stated that if the investigation is confirmed,
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What are the ecological and human health hazards of excessive nitrogen fertilizer application?
Excess nitrogen fertilizer in vegetables and fruits: beware of cancer. Have you ever heard of this? Food safety is becoming more and more fragile nowadays, so we must pay more attention ourselves. Although eating vegetables and fruits is good for health, when nitrogen fertilizer is used excessively, the nitrate present in leafy vegetables can trigger esophageal
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Food rumors keep appearing on social media: what harm do they do?
The Food Sanitation Division also urges the public to maintain "reasonable doubt" toward rumors circulating online; unless they can be confirmed as true, it is better to let rumors stop with the wise and not forward or spread them further. Those who cannot tell true from false can provide the relevant information to the Food Sanitation Division, or go online and
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How to grow sprouts at home? A detailed guide to home growing methods
Sprouts can be grown in several ways; some are suited to water culture, while others require soil culture. First, let's talk about water-cultured sprouts. Among the sprouts suited to water culture, the most standard and most popular are alfalfa sprouts and mung bean sprouts; in addition, soybeans and black beans can also be grown without soil, as long as
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A Detailed Guide to Vegetable Growing Techniques and Practical Methods
If you are a first-time vegetable grower, it is best to grow wild vegetables. So-called wild vegetables include such plants as Madeira vine, Gynura bicolor, sweet potato leaves, ginseng herb, aloe, Taiwan angelica, and shungiku. Wild vegetables are easy to grow and high in energy, but they have a distinctive taste of their own, so insects dislike coming near them, and they can grow well without pesticides
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How to prevent and control bacterial wilt in tomatoes? Detailed explanation of the best treatment methods
Tomato bacterial wilt is a very serious disease in tomato cultivation. If it is not managed well, it can easily cause major damage. So how should it be managed? Let's take a look together. Pathogen: This disease is caused by Pseudomonas solanacearum. The bacterium belongs to the non-fluorescent pseudomonad
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DIY Method for Turning Kitchen Waste into Organic Fertilizer
In many European countries, when dealing with kitchen waste and yard weeds and fallen leaves, people often use their own yards for natural composting, and some use machines for high-speed fermentation. In the early days, farming families in Taiwan, China all had compost sheds and manure pits, and these can provide us with space for reflection and thought.
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The principles of kitchen waste composting and how to make a compost bin, eco-friendly and practical
Nowadays, we all want a good ecological environment, and many people are making compost, which is both eco-friendly and practically useful. So how do you make compost? Do you know? Let's take a look together. For composting to succeed, you must provide the right amount of water, air,
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