Turnip

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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