Plants

China has been the clear leader in garlic production in the world over the last few decades.

Grape juice is made by pressing and grinding the fruit.

There are around 800 pumpkin varieties, but only about 200 are edible.

It can be grown in a pot at home.

It is most frequently found as an admixture in moist, shady mountain foliage and mixed woods, on the banks of mountain streams, in the trees in the midst of fields.

Due to their high inulin content, tubers tolerate low temperatures (down to -30 degrees Celsius) well and can be left in the soil for the winter, unlike the potato.

They have only 38 kcal in 100 g but have a rather high glycemic index = 64.

Sweet potatoes are tubers that are the underground part of the plant.

Researchers at East China Normal University in Shanghai have found that a substance - D-chiro-inositol - found in fig-leaf gourd (Cucurbita ficifolia) pulp extract can replace insulin.

Pineapple fruits are usually seedless berries, fusing with an inflorescence axis and the cotyledons to form a fruiting body.