Plants

Tuesday, 7 October 2025
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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Corn
In prehistoric times, Mesoamerican women used special querns (metate) to process corn into ground corn flour.
Corn flour allowed them to prepare foods that were more caloric. After the invention of pottery, the Olmecs cooked corn with beans, which increased its nutritional value.
Rapeseed
Seed fat is obtained mainly by pressing pre-crushed cold or heated seeds in screws or roller presses or by extraction with various solvents.
In industry, single or double pressing is used, depending on the needs.
Citron
Citron (Citrus medica) is a perennial plant in the Rutaceae family.
The family includes 161 genera and 2,085 species growing in the tropics and subtropics, less frequen ...
Bananas
Humans and bananas have 50% identical DNA.
Sweet potato
There are two varieties of sweet potatoes: sweet and bitter.
The bitter variety is poisonous but once peeled and exposed to the sun, it becomes edible. The sweet variety is often eaten by wild animals and insects, and plantations are destroyed.
Corn
The origin of corn is not fully explained.
The dispute over its origin is long-standing and has been between different regions of America, Afri ...
Parsley
Both the leaves and roots of the plant are used for food.
Watercress
It is an edible and medicinal plant, one of the oldest plants in the world.
Its health-promoting properties have been known since ancient times. The Egyptians served workers th ...
Rowan
Rowan berries are a rich source of vitamins.
They contain large amounts of vitamins B3, C, E, K, and P and small amounts of vitamin A.
Sunflower
In 1979, a mathematical formula was developed for generating a sunflower spiral.
It is used in computer graphics to generate images of these plants.