{"items": [{"author": "Anna", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/sunday-august-29-2010-radish-experiment-day-7-ants/423003816212/?comment_id=423024141212", "anchor": "fb-423024141212", "service": "fb", "text": "So you are actually trying this? That makes me so happy Jeff! :-D", "timestamp": "1283112284"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/sunday-august-29-2010-radish-experiment-day-7-ants/423003816212/?comment_id=423116406212", "anchor": "fb-423116406212", "service": "fb", "text": "I'm enjoying it too.
If the radishes don't end up sweet another thing to try would be leafy greens and seeing if the saccharin ends up in the leaves. I guess I could taste the radish leaves; I wonder if they're edible?", "timestamp": "1283133294"}, {"author": "Anna", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/sunday-august-29-2010-radish-experiment-day-7-ants/423003816212/?comment_id=423256196212", "anchor": "fb-423256196212", "service": "fb", "text": "Hmmmm, I would look it up. They're probably edible, but won't taste very good. Is there a vegetable where you eat the root and the greens? The only one I can think of is green onions...", "timestamp": "1283177574"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/sunday-august-29-2010-radish-experiment-day-7-ants/423003816212/?comment_id=423272961212", "anchor": "fb-423272961212", "service": "fb", "text": "Like onions, I think people do for garlic.
Carrot greens maybe? But carrots are already sweet.", "timestamp": "1283181341"}, {"author": "Kathryn", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/sunday-august-29-2010-radish-experiment-day-7-ants/423003816212/?comment_id=423296516212", "anchor": "fb-423296516212", "service": "fb", "text": "turnips, beets, sweet potatoes; what are you testing, Jeff?", "timestamp": "1283185955"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/sunday-august-29-2010-radish-experiment-day-7-ants/423003816212/?comment_id=423297916212", "anchor": "fb-423297916212", "service": "fb", "text": "@Kathryn: I'm trying to figure out if you can make artificially sweet radishes by giving them saccharin while they grow. I know you can do this with lead, but the downside is that lead is toxic, especially at the quantities needed for sweetening. Saccharin is more complex than lead, so there's a good chance the radishes will turn it into something else, so I think it's unlikely to work, but I couldn't find anything about people trying it, so I decided to have a go.", "timestamp": "1283186266"}, {"author": "Steven", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/sunday-august-29-2010-radish-experiment-day-7-ants/423003816212/?comment_id=423619541212", "anchor": "fb-423619541212", "service": "fb", "text": "If it had worked, you could have sold your process to the food industry and made a fortune. Imagine, pre-sweetened zero calorie veggies! Grown \"naturally\" (because it was in the soil)! Bwah hah hah!", "timestamp": "1283271744"}, {"author": "Jeff Kaufman", "source_link": "https://www.facebook.com/notes/jeff-kaufman/sunday-august-29-2010-radish-experiment-day-7-ants/423003816212/?comment_id=424277686212", "anchor": "fb-424277686212", "service": "fb", "text": "@Robert: are nectarines natural?", "timestamp": "1283426908"}]}