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Snow Peas (Chinese Pea): Nutritional Values and Potential Benefits
The snow pea is an edible pod pea with flat pods and thin pod walls. They are often included in Asian cuisine as a delicious and nutritious addition to your meals, providing a fresh and sweet crunch to a variety of dishes.
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Cowpea Pods Nutrition Facts & Health Benefits
Cowpeas are one of the oldest crops to be farmed and are grown throughout the tropics and subtropics. It is cultivated around the world primarily as a legume, but leaves and immature pods are also used as vegetables.
Cowpea is also known as black-eye
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Quince Fruit Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits
The quince (Cydonia oblonga) is a golden-yellow pome fruit that belongs to the Rosaceae family with many health benefits. Ripe quince has a pleasant, lasting, and powerful flavor. Quince cannot be eaten raw and requires cooking to be edible.
The quin
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Nectarines Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits
Nectarines and peaches are delicious fruits that originated in China. Now they are cultivated widely all over the world. Nectarines are nearly identical to peaches, except that nectarines are slightly smaller and sweeter, and they are also called pea
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Feijoa Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits
The feijoa, also called pineapple guava or guavasteen, it is a subtropical fruit that grows up to about 3 inches in length. Feijoa has a fairly complex flavor that is often compared to that of pineapple but also contains hints of strawberry, guava, q
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Daikon Radish Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits
Daikon is a winter oilseed radish native to East Asia. It has a mild flavor and an elongated white root like a giant carrot. Daikon radish is bigger and sweeter than summer radishes. It is now cultivated widely all over the world, such as Europe, Ame
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Luffa Gourd Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits
Luffa gourd usually refers to the fruits of the species Luffa aegyptiaca and Luffa acutangula. Luffa is also known as Chinese okra in Canada and America. It is a vine plant cultivated for its fruit and is native to South and Southeast Asia. The luffa
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Purslane Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits
Purslane (Portulaca oleracea), also called little hogweed or pursley, is a powerhouse herb. The plant may be eaten as a vegetable. It has a slightly sour and salty taste and is used in salads and soups as a potherb in different countries.
Purslane is
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Rambutan Nutrition Facts & Health Benefits
Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum) is a tropical fruit that originated in Southeast Asia. It is also known as "hairy fruit" because of its red spiny or hairy appearance. Rambutan fruit have a thin reddish or orange-yellow rind covered with thick, coarse
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Mangosteen Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits
Mangosteen is one of the most admired tropical fruits and is known widely as the Queen of Fruits for its beautiful purple-blue pericarp and delicious flavor. The edible portion of the fruit is sweet to sour in taste, juicy, and fibrous. The fruit per
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Endive Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits
Endive is a leafy salad vegetable belonging to the genus Cichorium. Endive has two forms: narrow-leaved endive called curly endive and broad-leaved endive called escarole. Endives can be consumed raw or cooked.
Curly endive grows in loose heads of na
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Chayote fruit Nutrition Facts and Health Benefits
Chayote(Sechium edule) also called mirliton and choko, is an edible plant belonging to the gourd family. Its fruit, stems, and young leaves, as well as the tuberized portions of the roots, are eaten as vegetables, both alone and plain boiled, and as
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