Kaffir lime leaf

Pineapple is not one fruit, but a cluster of coalesced berries. Many think that a pineapple is one fruit but it is not, it is actually many fruits grown together, called pineapples. The word pineapple come from pine. A pine cone look like a pineapple in the building while it is still sitting on the tree. When the…

Bean sprouts are typically made from mung beans. Bean sprouts have a long history both as food and as a natural remedy. It is believed that they have been recognized in Chinese traditional medicine, in the cure of many health problems, for more than 5000 years. In the 1700s when scurvy was a big problem…

We have been eating eggs since the dawn of human time. Jungle fowl was properly domesticated in India and South-east Asia about 7500 BCE. The domestication of the jungle fowls was not because of the meat but because of the eggs. Chickens were then bought to Egypt and Sumer by 1500 BCE, and in 800 BCE they had…

There are many types of raisins. The definition of raisins is that they are dried grapes. So all kind of dried grapes is raisins. And with more than 10,000 varieties of wine grapes in the world, there is a lot of different raisins. But you do not see 10.000 different kinds of raisins in your…

Red leaf lettuce is the red variant of one of the 6 subspecies of lettuce. The cultivation of lettuce dates back to the Egyptians 4500 years ago. Lettuce is properly derived from wild weed and through careful breeding, we have the hundreds of lettuce we know today. The farmers have though selection, being able to…