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Capsaicinoids are also an active ingredient in riot control and personal defense pepper spray agents. [2] When the spray comes in contact with skin, especially eyes or mucous membranes, it produces pain and breathing difficulty in the affected individual. [2] Capsaicin is also used to deter pests, specifically mammalian pests.
Pepper spray, oleoresin capsicum spray, OC spray, capsaicin spray, mace, or capsicum spray is a lachrymator (tear gas) product containing the compound capsaicin as the active ingredient that irritates the eyes to cause burning and pain sensations, as well as temporary blindness. Its inflammatory effects cause the eyes to close, temporarily ...
This page is a sortable table of plants used as herbs and/or spices.This includes plants used as seasoning agents in foods or beverages (including teas), plants used for herbal medicine, and plants used as incense or similar ingested or partially ingested ritual components.
The usage of garlic chives' flowers in a dipping sauce for mutton dates from the 8th or 9th century CE. In the Jiu Hua Tie , the fifth most important piece of Chinese calligraphy in semi-cursive script , Yang Ningshi [ zh ] (873–954) [ 4 ] [ 5 ] recorded using garlic chive flowers to enhance the flavors of mutton:
Allium neapolitanum is a bulbous herbaceous perennial plant in the onion subfamily within the Amaryllis family.Common names include Neapolitan garlic, [2] Naples garlic, daffodil garlic, false garlic, flowering onion, Naples onion, Guernsey star-of-Bethlehem, star, white garlic, and wood garlic.
Is thought to improve the health of almost all plants, like borage and geraniums, is considered a "magic bullet" of companion planting Oregano: Origanum vulgare: Grapes, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkin, many other plants: Basil: Hoverflies/Syrphidae [65] Aphids [65] Provides ground cover and much-needed humidity for pepper plants if allowed to ...
Garlic chives are also one of the main ingredients used with yi mein dishes. Its flowers are fermented to make garlic chive flower sauce (韭花酱). When the leaves of garlic chives are blanched by growing them in dark environments these are called jiǔhuáng (韭黄) or jiǔ cài huáng (韭菜黄), known in
Allium roseum, commonly called rosy garlic, [3] is an edible, Old World species of wild garlic. It is native to the Mediterranean region and nearby areas, with a natural range extending from Portugal and Morocco to Turkey and the Palestine region. It is cultivated widely, and has become naturalised in scattered locations in other regions ...