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Wednesday, 19 November 2025
21 facts about olives
21 facts about olives
"Where the olive refuses to grow, there the Mediterranean world ends"
It is not known exactly when and where the first olive tree, characteristic of the Mediterranean region, grew. Paleobotanists claim that wild olives g ...

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Asparagus
Commercially available are white and green asparagus.
They are the same species, the only difference is the way they are grown.
Parsley
Parsley can be used therapeutically during the body's water retention, in the presence of kidney stones, and digestive disorders.
Rice
By-products of rice processing are used as animal feed.
In addition, rice bran is used to produce rice oil.
Strawberry
The first strawberries were bred in France in the 1850s. They were created by crossing two species of wild strawberries.
Due to their size, these creations quickly displaced the common strawberry, which people had eaten since probably earlier than the Stone Age.
Pumpkin
Apart from its culinary advantages, pumpkin seed oil is used successfully in cosmetics.
It is beneficial for hair and skin. It accelerates the growth of hair and nails, regenerates damage, soothes wounds and inflammations, and helps with acne.
Dragon blood tree
The resin is used in medicine by the inhabitants of Socotra Island.
It is treated as a coagulant, used in wound healing, treating diarrhea, or lowering fever.
Parsley
Parsley is also rich in provitamin A, vitamin K, iron, calcium, and potassium.
Sesame seeds
White and other light sesame seeds are standard in Europe, the Americas, western Asia and the Indian subcontinent.
Black and darker-colored sesame seeds are in demand mainly in China and Southeast Asia.
Pomegranate
Pomegranate flowers and fruits were a common decorative motif in Assyrian, Semitic, and Egyptian civilizations.
Jews decorated the robes of priests or statues with them. The fruit symbolized fidelity to the Pentateuch, and the royal crown of the Jews was modeled after the pomegranate fruit.
Bananas
Most bananas are grown in India.
The next largest crops are in China, Indonesia, Brazil, and Ecuador.