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Is Fruit Juice Healthier than Fruit?

Posted by Su Avasthi on May 16, 2008 - 4:50pm.

Forget about an apple a day. New research suggests that grape juice could be more effective at keeping the doctor away....

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Is That Cabernet in Your Tank, Madame?

Posted by Hillary Rosner on November 16, 2005 - 10:10am.

With France's wine industry in an economic slump, grape growers are looking at new markets for their crop. One possibility: biofuel. According to a Reuters story, French winemakers are exploring ways to produce more alcohol from the grapes, making them a plausible substitute for sugar beets as a source of ethanol, which can be used on its own or mixed with gasoline to create a cleaner fuel. France is already Europe's third largest producer of ethanol. The country currently has a wine surplus of four billion liters, the largest in a decade, thanks to overproduction and increasing competition from other countries.


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