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Is it called a called shrimp or a prawn? Neither shrimp nor prawn is the correct scientific names they are both common names. Those names are both vernacular or colloquial names, you can say it just names people have made up. They have nothing whatsoever to do with the correct scientific names. A little like…

The nutrient fact, below, is based on 100 gram of palm oil. Vitamins Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid mg 0 Thiamin mg 0 Riboflavin mg 0 Niacin mg 0 Vitamin B-6 mg 0 Folate, DFE µg 0 Vitamin B-12 µg 0 Vitamin A, RAE µg 0 Vitamin A, IU IU 0 Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) mg…

 A Squid only has head and feet, but it has 3 harts. A squid belongs to the  Cephalopods. Until now, there have been discovered more, than 300 different species of squid. An ancestor of today’s squid is known to have lived about 550 million years ago. The biggest type of squids can grow to a size…

Parsley has been unfairly treated through the ages. Parsley is believed to originate, in south-east Europe. Parsley has been cultivated for more than 2000 years, and in the beginning, it was not as a food. To the ancient Greeks, parsley was associated with death. That was because they believed it to have sprung from the…

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…