Jujube: nutrition facts and health benefits
The jujube is a fruit tree once very common in the Mediterranean region. Its tasty fruits, named Chinese dates or jujubes, are rich in vitamins and also have medicinal properties.
The genus Ziziphus includes 80...
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...
Dragon fruit: nutrition facts and health benefits
The dragon fruit, also called pitaya, is the fruit of a cactus named Hylocereus. It can be grown inside homes, but it needs certain conditions to bloom and give fruit, which is not possible...
Goji berry: nutrition facts and health benefits
Goji berry is a small red fruit resembling an elongated cherry. Of Tibetan origin, it has been cultivated for more than 2,000 years in south eastern China, where it has traditionally been used to...
Kumquat: nutrition facts and health benefits
The kumquat is the smallest of citrus fruits: its size varies from 2.5 to 5 cm. It looks like a tiny orange. Its flesh is very juicy and divided into quarters. Its skin, very...
Artichoke: nutrition facts and health benefits
The word artichoke refers to the plant which derives from the native Thistle of Mediterranean plant and its edible part the base or bottom of the flower of the plant. It consists of a...
Gooseberry: nutrition facts and health benefits
Goosberry is a green or red currant (depending on the varieties) and it’s found under several names. Or at least it was found, since the gooseberry have the name 'mackerel berries' because in the...
