Tomato: nutrition facts and health benefits
Although the tomato is a fruit, it is much more used as a vegetable. The tomato originates from northwestern South America, between the Andes Cordillera and the Pacific. Its name comes from the Inca...
Salsify: nutrition facts and health benefits
The salsify, as it is known with its black skin, is actually a scorzonera, a perennial plant whose root resembles the salsify on the taste plane, the skin of the latter being of ivory...
Arugula (rocket salad): nutrition facts and health benefits
The arugula or rocket salad is a plant that belongs to the family of the Cruciferae like turnips and radishes. Its leaves are narrow, serrated and of a fairly dark green. The arugula has...
Rhubarb: nutrition facts and health benefits
Rhubarb is a vegetable plant with imposing leaves in the centre of a thick, fleshy rib. Only this one must be consumed, the leaves very rich in oxalic acid can be the cause of...
Radish: nutrition facts and health benefits
The pink radish is a white-fleshed root vegetable whose skin color and shape can change. Some varieties have a round root, others an elongated root with colors ranging from pinkish white to scarlet red....
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...
Pepper: nutrition facts and health benefits
Pepper is a fruit used as a vegetable derived from the plant with the same name. This annual plant belongs to the Chili family, and grows only in temperate climates. This is a sweet...
Leek: nutrition facts and health benefits
Leek is a vegetable plant of the family alliums (or Lily), the same as that of garlic, onion etc. Formed of leaves wrapped close to each other, its subterranean part, called white leek, is...
Pea: nutrition facts and health benefits
Pea is a climbing plant classified in the family of legumes whose fruits, edible green pods, contain small green seeds: peas.
History of pea
It may be the home of the genus Pisum but it wasn't...
Sweet potato: nutrition facts and health benefits
If the sweet potato is not very present in Western cuisines, it has always been in those of all tropical countries. Native to Central America (where it is called "Camoe"), sweet potato, despite its...
