Durian: nutrition facts and health benefits
The durian is a fruit having its origins in the Malay Archipelago, a south east Asia region including Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand. The tree which produces the fruit can reach 20 to 40...
Chicory: nutrition facts and health benefits
The chicory is a plant in the chicory family. It has the same name in English and Japanese, but is called "chic" in Belgium and northern France, and witloof in Flemish.
The history of chicory
The...
Pumpkin: nutrition facts and health benefits
The pumpkin comes from the squash family, these countless cucurbits, often mistaken for its close cousin, pumpkin. It is well rounded, always orange, with a hard peduncle, fibrous and a flesh rather stringy. The...
Quince: nutrition facts and health benefits
The quince is the fruit of quince, a tree of 4 to 8 meters high. It is pear shaped, very hard and corduroy. Its skin and flesh are yellow. It is impossible to eat...
Banana: nutrition facts and health benefits
Banana is the fruit of the banana plant, which is a plant (and not a tree) with huge leaves. It produces only once a year 50 to 400 bananas. Then the plant dries out,...
Persimmon: nutrition facts and health benefits
This tree is native in eastern China; the kaki is the fruit of the persimmon tree. It has the size of a tomato, its skin is orange, and its flesh has a flavor which...
Potato: nutrition facts and health benefits
The potato is a tuber produced by a vegetable plant that bears the same name. "Potatoe" in English, "potato" in Canadian, it's grown on every continent of the planet, it's the most consumed vegetable...
Broccoli: nutrition facts and health benefits
This vegetable-flower belongs to the cabbage family, descendants of the maritime cabbage, which always grows in the wild. Long scorned in Europe, while it was very much consumed in America, it had to return...
Elderberry: nutrition facts and health benefits
In addition of being delicious, elderberries are very rich in vitamins A, B6, C and iron. But the most remarkable of this little fruit is that it contains a significant amount of polyphenols. These...
Lettuce: nutrition facts and health benefits
The term lettuce does not designate a variety of salad. It’s the generic name of a series of vegetable plants with generally green leaves eaten raw in "salad" or cooked. A large number of...
