Loquat (Japanese medlar): nutrition facts and health benefits
The medlar of Japan is the fruit of the loquat. It is a small orange fruit with an oval shape, slightly fluffy skin. Its flesh is very juicy, sweet and acidic. Its core is...
Clementine: nutrition facts and health benefits
This fruit is a cross between a mandarin and a bigaradier (bitter orange). Its skin is thin and orange-green. The flesh is juicy and tart (but less fragrant than mandarin), and usually seedless.
The first,...
Dragon fruit: nutrition facts and health benefits
The dragon fruit, also called pitaya, is the fruit of a cactus named Hylocereus. It can be grown inside homes, but it needs certain conditions to bloom and give fruit, which is not possible...
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...
Sweet potato: nutrition facts and health benefits
If the sweet potato is not very present in Western cuisines, it has always been in those of all tropical countries. Native to Central America (where it is called "Camoe"), sweet potato, despite its...
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...
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...
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,...
Prickly pear: nutrition facts and health benefits
Prickly pear is originally from Central America and was brought back to the Mediterranean by the Spaniards. Adapting even to the most arid climates, it quickly flourished throughout the Mediterranean basin, even spreading to...
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...
