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Monday, 1 June 2026
16 facts about jerusalem artichoke
16 facts about jerusalem artichoke
Helianthus tuberosus
The wild sunflower, also known as topinambur or Jerusalem artichoke, is a plant that has been widely known and used for various purposes since ancient ...

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Chia seeds
Today, chia seeds are grown on a small scale in central Mexico and Guatemala, the homeland of their ancestors.
Commercial crops are grown in Central and South America.
Cinnamon
Cinnamon is nothing else than the dried bark of the cinnamon tree.
Cinnamon trees are trees from Southeast Asia. The most frequently used spices are Ceylon cinnamon (the most perfect species used as a spice) and cinnamon.
Rapeseed
Rapeseed blooms for about 45 days and the flowers are pollinated by bees.
Spring rapeseed blooms in late June and early July.Spring rapeseed blooms in late June and early July.
Baobab tree
At the beginning of the 21st century, South African baobabs suddenly began to die.
The cause of this strange phenomenon has not yet been understood. Most scientists rule out disease o ...
Turmeric
It originates from Southeast Asia and India.
The first mention of turmeric dates back to the ancient Assyrian herbal books.
Kale
There are many varieties of kale, which vary in leaf color and stem length.
Jerusalem artichoke
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.
During tuber storage, inulin hydrolyzes into fructose molecules. Topinambur tubers owe their sweet t ...
Bananas
Bananas are mainly cultivated in the intertropical zone.
Banana plantations can be found in Africa, North and South America, Asia and the Pacific.
Broad beans
However, the most popular are broad beans steamed or traditionally cooked in water.
There should be twice as much water as broad beans with a spoonful of sugar, followed by salt at the end. Young broad beans are cooked for about 15 minutes, and older broad beans for about 30 minutes.
Birch
In northern India, birch has great historical and cultural significance.
The thin bark that fell off the trunk in winter was widely used as writing paper. Birch paper is extremely durable and was the material from which many ancient Indian texts were made.