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Fresh fruits and vegetables can be enjoyed
all year round if canned by proper canning
Photo by Jane G. Brust
methods. The Texas Agricultural Extension
Service has helpful hints for canners.
Ocean research becoming
increasingly important
Despite anticipated cuts in fed
eral spending for research, studies
of the world’s oceans will become
more important in the coming de
cade because of the potential gains
in food and energy production,
says a Texas A&M scientist.
H “The oceans will not provide
the answers to all of the world’s
problems as was predicted in the
1960s, the golden age of sea ex-
| ploration, but they will become
more important in everyone’s
I life, said Capt. T.K. Treadwell,
ant oceanographer and manager of
! the department’s 174-foot re-
: search vessel Gyre (used in the
search for the Titanic) and the
University’s two-passenger scien
tific submarine.
He said food production will
become a prime area of concern
and research will be conducted to
improve fisheries and boost salt
water “farming. ”
Offshore oil and gas production
will also increase, Treadwell pre
dicted, as will research to get
more results. *
“in the past, these, resources
have not been exploited because it
wasn’t economically worthwhile.
With the rising price of other
fuels, it will become worth doing.
Several major research projects
are under way now to develop
these, particularly using the natu
ral heat in the surface waters of the
ocean,” Treadwell said.
“I expect these ocean resources
to become a major factor in our
energy budget during the next 10
years,” he said.
Treadwell predicted that one
problem high on the list during
the 1960s — pollution — will con
tinue to be studied by oceanog
raphers during the next 10 years.
The population is moving to
ward the coasts, he said. Many
Texans live in the coastal belt of
counties and this produces a
tremendous amount of garbage,
sewage and industrial pollution
problems in the shallow coastal
waters, Treadwell said.
The Texas A&M scientist said it
is not likely ocean research will
see another decade like the 1960s,
when research money often came
so fast scientists had trouble
spending it wisely, only to find
ultimately the sea was not the
panacea it was expected to be.
But the past generation of
ocean studies has pointed out that
much real potential does exist for
tapping the sea’s resources,
Treadwell said.
He suggested that high school
marine science programs empha
size areas such as energy, food,
minerals and pollution, all topics
with which most students will be
living, rather than just abstract
theories.
Such an approach of basic sci
ence combined with practical ap
plications will require more pre
paration by teachers, Treadwell
explained, because most science
books don’t give enough attention
to the social and economic con
sequences of research.
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Hints for summer canning
Save fruits for winter
By JANE G. BRUST
Battalion Staff
If you’re savoring the sweet
juice of summertime fruits and
vegetables now, you can still savor
that flavor come wintertime.
Many people choose to can pro
duce items and store them for win
ter eating, and for those canning
enthusiasts, the Texas Agricultu
ral Extension Service of the Texas
A&M University System has some
helpful hints and reminders.
The Food Quality and Safety
Committee of the TAES stresses
the importance of following can
ning directions to every detail.
“Use only approved canning tech
niques,” says a committee list of
canning tips. “Processing in a mic
rowave oven or conventional oven
is not an approved method.”
Proper equipment is an impor
tant part of the canning process.
The members say to use only stan
dard canning jars with lids and
rings; old mayonnaise or peanut
butter jars are not designed for
home canning.
They also suggest having press
ure gauges on pressure canners
checked by the local county exten
sion service prior to canning. Gas
kets and seals on the pressure can-
ner should also be checked.
Faulty seals can be a result of
“We recommend to keep
a product a year in a cool,
dark, dry place, ” said
Mary Kay Sweeten,
Texas Agricultural Ex
tension Service foods and
nutrition specialist. Can
ned produce should not
be kept in an attic or gar
age because in those war
mer environments bac
teria can get into the jars.
overfilling jars with fruit. The
committee suggests wiping clean
the tops of jars before sealing.
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Lids should be checked for a
depression which indicates a good
seal; products in jars without a
good seal may be eaten immedi
ately but should not be stored for
later use.
“We recommend to keep a pro
duct a year in a cool, dark, dry
place,” said Mary Kay Sweeten,
TAES foods and nutrition special
ist. She said not to keep canned
produce in an attic or garage be
cause in those warmer environ
ments, bacteria can get into the
jars.
Food items canned correctly
and kept for more than a year will
not spoil but they will lose their
color and flavor, she said.
Sweeten said another impor
tant safeguard in canning is using
tested recipes. “People shouldn’t
make up their own recipes, be
cause adding hot sauce or relishes
changes the acidity of the pro
duce.”
She said tomatoes are a very
popular fruit to can by the water-
bath canning method, in which
prepared tomatoes are placed in
warmed glass jars which are then
submerged in boiling water. The
concept behind that method,
Sweeten said, is that the higher
acid fruits help to destroy the
botchulism toxin produced by
spores on the ground where the
produce grows.
With lower acid produce, a
temperature higher than that of
the boiling water is required to
destroy the botulism toxin. To
achieve the higher temperature
when canning, the pressure can
ning method is used, Sweeten
said.
She said the reason why botul
ism spores on fresh produce aren’t
harmful is that the toxin has to be
produced in an environment with
out air. Such an environment is
created in the canning process.
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MISS TEXAS
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