Table beet is a valuable food crop. Beet is used in the preparation of soups and salads, it is irreplaceable in cosmetology and is used as a folk medicine for the treatment of various diseases. Let's consider the features of table beet, its varieties, chemical composition, benefits and much more.
Chinese cabbage is also called salad cabbage. The vegetable's homeland is China, where it is known as petsai. Over time, it spread across the planet. The first to appreciate the taste and benefits of Chinese cabbage were the Koreans, Japanese, and then all the inhabitants of Southeast Asia.
Chickpeas or, as they are also called, nagut, nahut, nahat, Turkish peas, garbanzo beans, shish peas, bladderwort, hummus - a plant of the legume family, is a legume crop. Latin name - Cicer arietinum.
Carrot is a biennial plant, its root vegetable is also called carrot. The Latin name for carrot is Daucus carota. This plant comes from the territory where the modern country of Afghanistan is located.
Brussels sprouts (lat. Brassica oleracea), as expected, belong to its own cabbage family - cruciferous. But there is no wild species of this cabbage, since it was bred from leaf cabbage, which grew in the outskirts of Brussels in the Middle Ages.
Autumn is not only the time of fallen leaves, rain and melancholy. It is also the time when many healthy vegetables and fruits “ripen”. Pumpkin, apples and, of course, a real storehouse of vitamins – white cabbage.
Black radish is an extremely useful plant, which has been known to our compatriots since ancient times as a health-improver for the human body and is widely used in folk medicine for the treatment and prevention of many diseases.
