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Microgreens have stronger flavors compared to sprouts, and come in a wider selection of leaf shapes, textures, and colors. Microgreens are grown in soil or soil-like materials such as peat moss. [11] Microgreens require high light levels, preferably natural sunlight with low humidity and good air circulation.
The name comes from the small prickles that can be found on the lower part of the stem and the midrib of the leaves. The plant is found in fields, places of waste, and roadsides. The leaves of the plant reach out towards the sun and for this reason the plant is sometimes called the Compass Plant.
This is a list of plants that have a culinary role as vegetables. "Vegetable" can be used in several senses, including culinary, botanical and legal. This list includes botanical fruits such as pumpkins, and does not include herbs, spices, cereals and most culinary fruits and culinary nuts.
Cabbage plants. Cruciferous vegetables are vegetables of the family Brassicaceae (also called Cruciferae) with many genera, species, and cultivars being raised for food production such as cauliflower, cabbage, kale, garden cress, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, mustard plant and similar green leaf vegetables.
orange pigments . α-Carotene – to vitamin A carrots, pumpkins, maize, tangerine, orange.; β-Carotene – to vitamin A dark, leafy greens, red, orange and yellow fruits and vegetables.
Assamese name English name Scientific name Image Bondha-Kobi, Bondhakobi Cabbage: Brassica oleracea Capitata Group Ful-Kobi, Phulkobi Cauliflower: Brassica oleracea Botrytis Group Ul-Kobi, Oolkobi Knolkhol or Kohlrabi: Brassica oleracea Gongylodes Group Alu Potato: Solanum tuberosum: Kath-Alu, Thaa in Bodo Yam Dioscorea alata: Mitha-Alu, Ronga ...
It is a deciduous to semi-evergreen shrub which grows to 1.8 meters (5.9 feet) in height at a medium rate [4] and has a spread width of 3 feet (0.91 meters). [1] It is herbaceous, perennial, and hermaphrodite and is pollinated by insects.
The Japanese name shiso became part of the English lexicon in the 1990s, owing to the growing popularity of sushi. [ 10 ] The plant is sometimes referred to by its genus name, Perilla , but this is ambiguous as perilla could also refer to a different cultigen ( Perilla frutescens var. frutescens ).