Kumquat: nutrition facts and health benefits
The kumquat is the smallest of citrus fruits: its size varies from 2.5 to 5 cm. It looks like a tiny orange. Its flesh is very juicy and divided into quarters. Its skin, very...
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...
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...
Blackcurrant: nutrition facts and health benefits
Blackcurrant is a small berry, very dark purple, almost black, which grows in clusters on a shrub, the black gooseberry. But it does not taste the same as gooseberry, its flavor is less sour,...
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....
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...
Watermelon: nutrition facts and health benefits
Huge fruit of a tropical plant of the family Cucurbitaceae, the watermelon has a thick and dark green bark, a red, pink or white flesh, particularly aqueous, and sown with big black seeds.
The watermelon...
Passion fruit: nutrition facts and health benefits
The passion fruit, a tropical berry, originates from Passiflora edulis, a climbing vine native to South America. Inside of this round and thick bark of purple or yellow fruit hides a gelatinous, tangy, sweet...
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,...
Cranberry: nutrition facts and health benefits
The therapeutic virtues of cranberry have been known for a long time. For centuries it was used as a powder to apply on wounds and injuries. It is also used to treat scurvy, the...
