Orange: nutrition facts and health benefits
The orange is the fruit of a tree originated in China and has been cultivated for millennia. The orange has a thick and rough skin and contains a juicy and the flesh is separated...
Apricot: nutrition facts and health benefits
Apricot is a fruit from the apricot tree. Its shape is round and it has an orange color with a furrow in the middle that allows to easily opening it to remove its nucleus....
Pineapple: nutrition facts and health benefits
The pineapple is the fruit of a tropical plant having the same name. It has the shape of a huge pine cone with green and hard leaves on the top. Its bark, consisting of...
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...
Avocado: nutrition facts and health benefits
The avocado is the fruit of the avocado tree. Its clear flesh has the consistency of butter. According to variety, the avocado has a shiny and smooth or textured, dark green or brown skin...
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...
Zucchini: nutrition facts and health benefits
The zucchini is the fruit of a plant having the same name. This small plant belongs to the large family of cucurbits and is picked before its maturity. According to the many varieties, this...
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...
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,...
