Table beet is a valuable food culture. Beets are used in the preparation of soups and salads, it is not replaceable in cosmetology and is used as a means of alternative medicine for the treatment of various diseases. Let's look at the characteristics of table beet, its varieties, chemical composition, benefits and much more.
Peking cabbage is also called salad cabbage. The motherland of the vegetable is China, where it is known as the pesay. Over time, it spread throughout the planet. The first to appreciate the taste and benefit of Peking cabbage were Koreans, Japanese, and then all the inhabitants of Southeast Asia.
Chickpeas or, as it is also called, naghut, nahut, nahat, chick peas, mutton peas, shish peas, puzyrnik, hummus - a plant of the legume family, is a legume crop. The Latin name is Cicer arietinum.
Carrots - a two-year plant, also called carrots his root crop. The Latin name of carrots is Daucus carota. This plant originates from the territory where the modern country Afghanistan is located.
Brussels sprouts (Latin Brassica oleracea), as it should be, belongs to its cabbage family - cruciferous. But there is no wild species of this cabbage, as it is derived from leafy cabbage, which in the Middle Ages grew on the outskirts of Brussels.
Autumn is time for not only fallen leaves, rains and spleen. This is also the time when "ripen" many useful vegetables and fruits. Pumpkin, apples and, of course, a real storehouse of vitamins - white cabbage.
Black radish is an unusually useful plant, which has been known to our compatriots from the earliest times as a human health and widely used in alternative medicine for the treatment and prevention of many diseases.