Plants

Aloe vera gel consists of 99% water and the remaining 1% is made of approximately 75 active constituents.

Until the introduction of potatoes, entire communities that did not have access to wheat flour relied on chestnuts as their main source of carbohydrates.

Winter rapeseed is mainly grown in Poland, with its crops occupying 95% of the area of all oilseed crops.

In the Aztec kingdom, vanilla flowers were once used to pay taxes.

Sweet potatoes are eaten cooked or baked.

The strong fiber extracted from the bark is used in many places to make ropes and fabrics. The trees also provide raw materials for hunting and fishing tools.

It is a psychoactive plant, but not addictive.

Topinambur is food for diabetics.

The avocado belongs to the Lauraceae family.

Broad beans may cause allergic reactions in people suffering from favism, i.e. the so-called bean disease.