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...
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....
Edamame: nutrition facts and health benefits
If it lends itself to all the transformations (milk, flour, tofu ...), soy also exists in the form of green beans, crunches, sips of quality protein. Known as edamame, it began to popularize in...
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...
Eggplant: nutrition facts and health benefits
Icon of the Mediterranean cuisine, the eggplant is part of these chameleon foods which can be cooked in a thousand ways. The eggplant is a fruit eaten as a vegetable and has many varieties...
Butternut squash: nutrition facts and health benefits
It is called butternut squash evocative of its texture in the kitchen, which makes it possible to obtain particularly velvety preparations. It measures 20 to 30 cm long with a more swollen base, like...
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...
Chinese cabbage: nutrition facts and health benefits
The Chinese cabbage, cousins of our European cabbages, are in the process of conquering Western restaurants thanks to their crunch, their delicate flavour, both raw and cooked, and their ease of cultivation.
The Chinese cabbage...
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...
