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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Cauliflower: nutrition facts and health benefits
Cauliflower is, like its cousin broccoli, among the many descendants of the sea cabbage. This wild cabbage grows everywhere since a long time ago. Cauliflower is made up of inflorescences, florets (or flowers, or...
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...
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...
