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The roasted seeds can be consumed as nuts, and roasted leaves chewed or made into a tea. [3] Sacha inchi oil has a mild flavour with a nutty finish and may be appropriate for a variety of cuisines, [3] although when consumed daily after one week, some subjects indicated low acceptance for the oil. [6]
Sacha inchi oil is extracted by pressing it from the seeds and flesh of the fruit from the Plukenetia volubilis, or pracaxi, a tree native to the area surrounding the Amazon River. Sacha Inchi oil has with approximately 50% a very high content of the omega-3 fatty acid alpha-linolenic acid , which makes it comparable to flaxseed oil . [ 1 ]
Caryodendron orinocense, commonly known as cacay, inchi or orinoconut, is an evergreen tree belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. This species of flowering plant is indigenous to the north-west of South America , particularly from the drainage basins of the Orinoco and Amazon rivers located in Colombia , Venezuela , Ecuador , Peru and Brazil .
The seeds of garden cress. Garden cress, known as chandrashoor, and the seeds, known as aaliv or aleev in Marathi, or halloon [13] in India, are commonly used in the system of Ayurveda. [14] It is also known as asario in India [15] and the Middle East where it is prized as a medicinal herb, called habbat al hamra (literally red seeds) in Arabic ...
Datura innoxia is quite similar to D. metel, to the point of being confused with it in early scientific literature. D. metel is a closely related plant, believed until recently to be of Old World provenance (though now thought to have been brought to Asia from the Antilles no earlier than the sixteenth century) and misconstrued as being referred to in the works of Avicenna in eleventh century ...
A high density of seeds during the seedling [clarification needed] offsets a reduced viability of the young plants and therefore enables a good yield. Seed storage is a common issue in seedling production. Long storage adversely affects the germination rate, for example after three weeks it decreases by 10%. [12]
The off-white, self-fertile flowers are borne on a central raceme, and are followed by 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) siliculate fruits, each containing two small 2.0–2.5 mm (0.079–0.098 in) reddish-gray ovoid seeds. Seeds are the maca's only means of reproduction. Maca reproduces mainly through self-pollination and is an autogamous species.
Typically, the seeds are small ovals with a diameter around 1 mm (1 ⁄ 32 in). They are mottle-colored, with brown, gray, black, and white. The seeds are hydrophilic, absorbing up to 12 times their weight in liquid when soaked. While soaking, the seeds develop a mucilaginous coating that gives chia-based beverages a distinctive gelatinous texture.