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...
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...
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...
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...
Spinach: nutrition facts and health benefits
Spinach is a fast growing vegetable plant whose leaves are consumed, always dark green and smooth or blistered. Depending on the variety, it’s annual or biennial. Spinach is grown in all temperate regions.
In Asia,...
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...
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....
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,...
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...
Lemon: nutrition facts and health benefits
The lemon is the most common and the most used of all the lemons. It is often referred to as a "lemon" without any precise color. The lemon comes from China but we do...
