How much do these parts of our body weigh?

How much do these parts of our body weigh?: The Heart is about the size of a persons fist. it weighs about 300 grams. Adults have between 55 and 65 milliliters of blood in their body per kilogram of weight. That's about 8 percent of the total

Swiss Travel and Food, Soothing Music Video

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Swiss Military Bunker Revival

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Where ammunition was once stored in the army bunkers in Erstfeld and Stansstad,

Alex Lussi, today, grows Shiitake and Oyster mushrooms sustainably. The Bunkers are ideal for this.

Thousands of disused military installations pierce the country of Switzerland. These days they are experiencing a civil revival!

Consumers prefer Swiss mushrooms

Mushrooms are trendy, the mushroom market in Switzerland is growing. The market share of Swiss mushrooms is 80 percent. Nevertheless, the competition between Holland and Poland is causing problems for Swiss producers. Since the mushrooms are picked by hand in Switzerland too, the wage costs are particularly significant, the production costs are 40 to 50 percent higher than in the EU. «The market is open. There is no border protection and no subsidies in mushroom production, ”says Lussi. He therefore regularly obtains information from colleagues in Holland so that he can react to changes in the market in good time.

«We have to use our advantages consistently: Our mushrooms are fresh and quick in the store. Our historical production facilities are of interest, ”says Lussi. “We still have space in our production rooms, we can increase production and expand the variety of mushrooms on offer. It is important that we produce inexpensively, maintain the quality and improve our level of awareness. ”

 

Gotthard Bio-Pilze AG, Erstfeld

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Avocado, my favorite is a climate Killer?

This Superfruit has a bad reputation. Wrongly accused!

How did the avocado get its bad reputation?

If you compare the avocado to other fruits and vegetables it doesn’t look that drastic.

What’s good in this fruit?

The qualities of the avocado are undisputed: high nutritional value, lots of protein, fiber and vitamins, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Aztecs, who cultivated the fruit more than 10,000 years agoin the Guatemalan-Mexican border area, called it “ahuacatl”, in English: testicles, because of its shape.

How many do we eat?

The avocado is considered a trend fruit that has become popular in Europe and worldwide with the vegetarian and vegan lifestyle. The numbers are impressive: After 2000, 3700 tons were imported into Switzerland alone, in 2010 6000 and in 2021 more than 19000 tons. Last year, Migros, a Swiss supermarket chaine, imported 7,461 tons or 24,698,532 pieces.

How much water does she swallow?

It takes around 600 liters of water to produce one kilogram of avocados. Is that much? Basically yes. At least if fruit comes from a dry country. But in a liter-per-kilogram comparison, it no longer looks so drastic. Some examples: 790 liters of water for a kilo of bananas, 800 for apples; 15,000 liters for beef and 17,000 liters for chocolate.

What is the impact of transport on the climate?

If you measure the influence on climate and environment, the focus is primarily on production. Any transportation is negligible as long as it is not by plane – which is hardly the case with avocados. Interesting: Ship transport is 20 to 30 times more efficient than road transport. Avocados from overseas are no worse for the climate than those from Spain or Portugal, on the contrary.

So, spread butter or avocado on your bread?

Smearing avocado on toast is 3x better than butter in terms of environmental and climate issues. In order to cover a third of the daily requirement of a person, 1384 grams of CO2 are produced with butter and only 457 grams with avocado.

 

 

 

 

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