Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Fat choy (traditional Chinese: 髮菜; simplified Chinese: 发菜; pinyin: fàcài; Jyutping: faat³ coi³; Nostoc flagelliforme) is a terrestrial cyanobacterium (a type of photosynthetic bacteria) that is used as a vegetable in Chinese cuisine. When dried, the product has the appearance of black hair. For that reason, its name in Chinese means ...
By understanding the various parts of vegetables and the nutrients they carry, people can eat well, according to Sherri Stastny, a registered dietitian and a professor in the department of health ...
One vegetable has the same sugary response as a can of Coke. Another vegetable is the ultimate hangover cure. These are the 5 best and the 5 worst vegetables for you
"Vegetables contain nutrients like vitamin A and antioxidants that promote healthy skin," Chavez says. "Without enough vegetables, dull, dry, acne, premature aging and other skin issues may ensue."
Mangelwurzel or mangold wurzel (from German Mangel/Mangold, "chard" and Wurzel, "root"), also called mangold, [1] mangel beet, [1] field beet, [2] fodder beet and (archaic) root of scarcity, [3] [4] [5] is a cultivated root vegetable. It is a variety of Beta vulgaris, [5] the same species that also contains the red beet (beetroot) and sugar ...
A vegan was denied a Swiss passport by local voters, [52] and people have thrown KFC chicken at vegans in England, [53] in both cases as a reaction to their lawful animal rights protest. In 2018, William Sitwell , then editor of the Waitrose Food magazine, responded to a request for a vegan column by proposing "a series on killing vegans, one ...
Some fruitarians, like Jains, wish to avoid killing anything, including plants, [11] and refer to ahimsa fruitarianism. [16] For some fruitarians, the motivation comes from a fixation on a utopian past, their hope being to return to a past that pre-dates an agrarian society to when humans were simply gatherers . [ 17 ]
Merriam-Webster defines "fruit" as "the usually edible reproductive body of a seed plant." Most often, these seed plants are sweet and enjoyed as dessert (think berries and melons), but some ...