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Wednesday, 26 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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Vanilla
Vanilla flowers are hand-pollinated.
The flower opens for just one day. It opens at sunrise and can only be pollinated for a few hours - ...
Lemon
It can be grown at home.
Seeds can be obtained from fruit that we buy in the store. A plant grown from seeds does not retain the characteristics of a mother specimen but is an original exotic potted plant.
Grapes
The fruits of the vine are berries and may have different colors depending on the variety.
The average fruit has a diameter of 2 cm and comes in many colors. The fruit may be white, green, pink, red, or almost black. The fruit contains 2 to 4 pear-shaped seeds with a maximum length of 6 mm.
Beetroot
Beets are a vegetable commonly grown in Central Europe.
They are grown from seeds, which are sown in April into not very fertile soil. The growth period takes 3-4 months.
Strawberry
It is not recommended for breastfeeding mothers to consume strawberries.
Doing so can cause allergic reactions in newborns.
Tomatoes
The English name is derived from Nahuatl, the main language of the Aztecs.
In Nahuatl, the word tomatl means swelling fruit or fatty water.
Cocoa bean
Cocoa powder is obtained by grinding and sifting cocoa powder, which is the residue after extruding cocoa butter from cocoa mass.
Cocoa powder contains at most 20 percent fat, as well as about 20 percent protein and 40 percent car ...
Brussels sprout
The vitamin K content of Brussels sprouts contributes to building and maintaining healthy bones and protects against osteoporosis.
A glass of fresh Brussels sprouts provides about 270% of the daily requirement of vitamin K. Since vitamin K is fat-soluble, brussels sprouts should be eaten with it.
Rapeseed
It is a valuable source of fat-soluble vitamins, especially provitamin A, as well as vitamins K and E.
It also contains plant sterols and phytosterols which are one of the basic building blocks of plant ...
Garlic
Garlic has weak and shallow roots.
Only adventitious roots grow from the heel, which die when the plant stops growing.