Tomato: nutrition facts and health benefits
Although the tomato is a fruit, it is much more used as a vegetable. The tomato originates from northwestern South America, between the Andes Cordillera and the Pacific. Its name comes from the Inca...
Fennel: nutrition facts and health benefits
Fennel is a perennial and Mediterranean aromatic plant. Its bulb is consumed as a vegetable; its branches are used as an aroma and its seeds as a condiment. Its aniseed flavor comes from a...
Grape: nutrition facts and health benefits
Grape is the fruit of the vine. It’s a climbing plant that grows in all continents in regions where the climate is warm enough. It provides berries grouped in cluster and composed of light...
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,...
Asparagus: nutrition facts and health benefits
Asparagus is a plant consisting of an underground stem, the claw. It produces buds, which are called turions. They stretch underground in search of light. On the end of the bud, turions change color...
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...
Corn: nutrition facts and health benefits
Corn, a cereal originating from Mexico, is very present in the food of the entire American continent and in Africa but much less in Europe. It is an herbaceous plant which has a variable-sized...
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...
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,...
Kohlrabi: nutrition facts and health benefits
A vegetable with the bulbous shape of the brassica family, the turnip cabbage is better known in Europe than in North America. With a sweet flavor, it is eaten raw or cooked. It has...
