Turnip: nutrition facts and health benefits
The turnip is a vegetable plant, belonging to the same family as the rutabaga and cabbage. It is grown for its root, which is consumed as a vegetable. According to the varieties, it offers...
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...
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...
Asparagus: nutrition facts and health benefits
Asparagus is a plant consisting of an underground stem, the claw. It produces buds, which are called turions. They stretch underground in search of light. On the end of the bud, turions change color...
Onion: nutrition facts and health benefits
The onion is a bulbous vegetable plant which can be fresh (new onion) or dry (coated with a thin skin). It consists of white or pink leaves, fleshy and juicy, superimposed on each other....
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...
Beet: nutrition facts and health benefits
Beta vulgaris, is the scientific name of garden beet. Other types exist, fodder beet and sugar beet, which are inedible. Different varieties of garden beet are cultivated. All have a root very fleshy, round,...
Fennel: nutrition facts and health benefits
Fennel is a perennial and Mediterranean aromatic plant. Its bulb is consumed as a vegetable; its branches are used as an aroma and its seeds as a condiment. Its aniseed flavor comes from a...
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...
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...