Camote or best known as sweet potato is widely known because of its sweet taste of the fruit flesh. Don’t mistaken camote with yams because they are totally coming from different variety, though they look similar in appearance and taste. In some countries, camote is consumed as staple food because camote is not only rich […]
Category: Vegetables
You should get used to sweet basil. Perhaps you have found many of these sweet basil seeds as a mixture and complement of various cold drinks. For those of you who do not know, basil seeds are small black and outside. Clear white color, almost the size of sesame. The seeds of sweet basil came […]
Bean sprout is one of healthy and cheap vegetable that we can find easily, especially at Asia continent. In Asia, usually bean sprout is made from green bean. Usually, the process from bean transform into bean sprout takes 1 week. Bean sprout is a good source of nutrients such as vitamin B, C, B1, B6, […]
When we were a child, our mother must have tried their best to manipulate us to eat the green crunchy stuff in your plate called vegetables. It’s like worldwide phenomenon that all children hate vegetables. However, when we’re getting older, we start to realize that mothers always tell truth that vegetables are good to us. […]
Still in the theme of health benefits, now we will talks about health benefits of brazilian spinach. Do you know something about Brazilian spinach? Yup. This plant is rare to discuss, because not everyone know about this plants. People who know this plant too much maybe come from Brazil. Brazilian spinach also known as Sissoo […]
Carrot leaves, contrary to what most people believe, are actually edible. We can easily find carrot greens, another name for carrot leaves, atop of carrot plants. Carrot leaves are easily identified by their lacy and feathery shapes, with jagged sides. They taste somewhat in the mix of bitter and sweet, with grassy texture as well […]
Think pink, think pinto beans. Pink is like everyone’s favorite color and that color is closely associated with pinto beans and make this variety of beans are so popular. Besides that, aside from the beautiful color of pinto beans, these beans are also packed with nutrients and have great taste. However, those are not the […]
Edamame is a common ingredient for cuisines in Japan, China, and Korea. Edamame or edamame bean is the green young soybean that has been harvested before the beans became harden. Moreover, edamame is sold in fresh and frozen condition while it is still in the pods. As the consequence, edamame beans are soft and edible. […]
Still in theme of health benefits, now we will discuss about endive. Do you know about endive? Yup. Endive is one of the vegetables that usually we see in salad, especially western salad. Endive has a science name, Cichorium endivia, which a vegetables that classified in the family of Asteraceae. Usually endive served as salad. […]
Speaking of healthy living, people are striving to look for solution so they could get all the nutrients from food they consume with minimum side effects. Simple example, carbohydrate is one of the important compounds to produce energy but the side effect like weight gain and diabetes caused by too much glucose from carbohydrate are […]