Plants

Although corn naturally contains niacin (nicotinic acid, vitamin B3, vitamin PP), it was not bioavailable without the process of nixtamalization (soaking and cooking the grain in an alkaline solution, usually lime water, washing and husking).

Unlike potatoes, in sweet potatoes, the leaves are also edible.

The sycamore maple is a relatively long-lived tree that grows quite fast.

The reproductive period of flowers in baobab lasts about 15 hours.

Lemon balm also contains tannins, substances that denature proteins.

Today, most of the rice produced comes from China, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar (Burma), Pakistan, the Philippines, Korea, and Japan.

Broad beans were known and cultivated ten thousand years BC in Mesopotamia, Syria, Phoenicia and then in Egypt and Rome.

It is an edible plant.

Cornflowers bloom throughout the summer and at the end of summer, the plant disperses seeds.

It contains large amounts of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.