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Saturday, 15 August 2026
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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Turmeric
It originates from Southeast Asia and India.
The first mention of turmeric dates back to the ancient Assyrian herbal books.
Cabbage
The heaviest head of cabbage grown weighed 62.71 kilograms.
Cornflower
Cornflowers often appear in paintings.
One of the more famous paintings in which the cornflower motif appears is Vincent van Gogh's landsca ...
Coconut tree
An important ingredient in Thai and Indian cuisine is coconut milk.
It is made by mashing grated coconut flesh with hot water or milk, which extracts the oil and aromat ...
Chestnuts
Chestnuts are one of the few "nuts" that contain vitamin C.
100 g of chestnuts contain 48% of the daily requirement for this vitamin. In addition to vitamin C, ...
Ginkgo biloba
It is a link between pteridophytes and gymnosperms trees and is the only deciduous tree in the group of gymnosperms (the others have leaves in the form of needles).
Ginkgo biloba is a species of tree belonging to the Ginkgoaceae family.
Chia seeds
Economic historians say that chia seeds may have been as important as corn as a food crop in those days.
They served as a staple food for Aztec Nahuatl cultures. Jesuit chroniclers ranked chia as the third ...
Saguaro cactus
The plant is supported by wooden ribs inside the trunk and arms.
They can be as long as the cactus itself and have few centimeters in diameter.
Sweet potato
They are starchy vegetables, like potatoes, but are not related to potatoes.
Potatoes belong to the Solanaceae and are related to the tomato, bell pepper, or eggplant.
Lemon balm
Since the Renaissance, it has been used to attract honey bees.
Some believed that bees would never leave the garden where lemon balm grew.