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Humans started to extract salt as far back as 6050 BC. In the Roman empire, salt was also used as a payment method when the soldiers should have their salary. The value of salt was the same as the value of gold. Salarium is the Latin word for salary, and the word salt comes from this…

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…

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 potatoes. Vitamins Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid mg 11.4 Thiamin mg 0.021 Riboflavin mg 0.038 Niacin mg 1.033 Vitamin B-6 mg 0.239 Folate, DFE µg 17 Vitamin B-12 µg 0 Vitamin A, RAE µg 0 Vitamin A, IU IU 0 Vitamin D (D2 + D3)…

The nutrient fact, below, is based on 100 gram of chili powder. Vitamins Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid mg 0.7 Thiamin mg 0.25 Riboflavin mg 0.94 Niacin mg 11.6 Vitamin B-6 mg 2.094 Folate, DFE µg 28 Vitamin B-12 µg 0 Vitamin A, RAE µg 1483 Vitamin A, IU IU 29650 Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) mg…