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A full bushel is represented by a basket in the lower right. A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of volume based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity. The old bushel is equal to 2 kennings (obsolete), 4 pecks, or 8 dry gallons, and was used mostly for agricultural products, such as wheat. In modern usage ...
A coomb was 16 stone (100 kg) for barley and 18 stone (110 kg) for wheat. The US grain markets quote prices as cents per bushel, and a US bushel of grain is about 61 lb (28 kg), which would approximately correspond to the 4-bushel coomb (4 × 61 lb = 244 lb ≈ 111 kg).
The bushel and the peck are only used for dry goods. Imperial units of volume are the same for both dry and liquid goods. They have a different value from both the dry and liquid US versions. Many of the units are associated with particular goods, so for instance the dry hogshead has been used for sugar and for tobacco, and the peck for apples.
[3] [4] [5] [1] Thus, 1 large calorie is equal to 1,000 small calories. A 710-millilitre (24 US fl oz) Monster energy drink with 330 large calories. In nutrition and food science, the term calorie and the symbol cal may refer to the large unit or to the small unit in different regions of the world.
A humane way to kill a live crab is to: 1) stun the crab by submerging it in ice water for several minutes, 2) flip the crab onto its back, and 3) drive the tip of a small pick about an inch below the center of its mouth. However, many cook live crabs by simply dropping them into boiling salt water. [18]
Leading scientists also have denounced the commission’s computer model, which recommends harvesting 175,000 female horseshoe crabs and 500,000 male horseshoe crabs for bait annually.
Billions of crabs vanished unexpectedly, forcing the closure of Alaska's crab fishing industry. ... They determined that strong boreal conditions are about 200 times more likely now (at 1.0 to 1.5 ...
Crab meat is low in fat and provides approximately 340 kilojoules (82 kcal) of food energy per 85-gram (3 oz) serving. Brown crab ( Cancer pagurus ), blue crabs ( Callinectes sapidus ), blue swimming crabs ( Portunus pelagicus ), and red swimming crabs ( Portunus haanii ) are among the most commercially available species of crabmeat globally.