Calabash: nutrition facts and health benefits
The calabash is a cosmopolitan plant whose traces are found in Thailand, as well as in Mexico and Papua. This annual vine of the family of Cucurbitaceae produces edible calabashes, and upon drying for...
Sapodilla: nutrition facts and health benefits
The sapodilla, also known as the loquat of America, which has been well-known for Europeans for more than three centuries, remains uncommon in western countries. However, it has long been prepared for medicinal and...
Apple: nutrition facts and health benefits
Apple is the fruit of the apple tree, cultivated everywhere in the world. Round, sometimes flattened at the top, it has a more or less tender skin, red, green or yellow according to the...
Star fruit (carambola): nutrition facts and health benefits
The star fruit is an exotic fruit from Southeast Asia, which reached the Antilles in the nineteenth century and is now cultivated in several countries (Australia, USA, Israel). This oblong fruit, about fifteen centimetres,...
Shallot: nutrition facts and health benefits
The shallot is a plant belonging to the same family as garlic and onion. The term refers to both the plant and the bulb it produces, used as a condiment and as a vegetable....
Redcurrant: nutrition facts and health benefits
The redcurrant is the fruit of a shrub with thorns and which can reach 1 meter high. There are more than 150 varieties of redcurrants. The countries producing the most of this fruit are...
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...
Pumpkin: nutrition facts and health benefits
The pumpkin comes from the squash family, these countless cucurbits, often mistaken for its close cousin, pumpkin. It is well rounded, always orange, with a hard peduncle, fibrous and a flesh rather stringy. The...
Cherry: nutrition facts and health benefits
Cherry is the fruit of the cherry tree. It’s a small round, juicy and fleshy fruit hanging from a rod, and contains a core. It has a red intense color which varies according to...
Carrot: nutrition facts and health benefits
The term "carrot" includes both the plant garden as the tuber, more or less elongated, it is consumed as a vegetable. The carrot is grown in all temperate areas of the world.
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