Plants

An important ingredient in Thai and Indian cuisine is coconut milk.

Pomegranate has many culinary uses.

Sesame is grown for its edible seeds.

Canola oil is characterized by an optimal ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 fatty acids (2:1).

Olive oil occurs 140 times in the Bible.

Nettle is a perennial plant that grows up to 2 meters tall.

Stinging nettle leaves and stems contain flavonoids, organic acids including formic and acetic acids, beta-carotene, vitamins A, B, B5, C, K, mineral salts - especially iron, calcium, potassium, phosphorus and magnesium, chlorophyll, acetylcholine, tannins, beta-sitosterol, enzymes, silicon and calcium compounds, acids: linoleic, linolenic, stearic, palmitic and oleic, almost all known amino acids.

It is native to central Europe and western Asia (from France eastward to Ukraine, northern Turkey, and the Caucasus, and in the mountains of northern Spain and Italy).

It was domesticated around the 10th century BC.

Sugar maple trees are susceptible to various diseases, the most common being canker and gall.