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List of food origins. Some foods have always been common in every continent, such as many seafood and plants. Examples of these are honey, ants, mussels, crabs and coconuts. Nikolai Vavilov initially identified the centers of origin for eight crop plants, subdividing them further into twelve groups in 1935. [1]
Ingredients. Water and a grain, pseudocereal, legume, nut, seed, or coconut. Amazake, Japanese rice milk. Plant milk is a plant beverage with a color resembling that of milk. Plant milks are non- dairy beverages made from a water-based plant extract for flavoring and aroma. [1] [2] Plant milks are consumed as alternatives to dairy milk, and may ...
Turmeric (/ ˈ t ɜːr m ər ɪ k, ˈ tj uː-/), (botanical name Curcuma longa (/ ˈ k ɜːr k j ʊ m ə ˈ l ɒ ŋ ɡ ə /),) is a flowering plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae.It is a perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous plant native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia that requires temperatures between 20 and 30 °C (68 and 86 °F) and high annual rainfall to thrive.
Botanically the grain is a caryopsis, as the wall of the fruit is fused on to the actual seed. Like other cereal grains, the caryopsis contains the outer husk or bran, the starchy food store or endosperm which occupies most of the seed, and the protein-rich germ which if planted in the soil can grow into a new plant.
Anacardium occidentale. L. Cashew is the common name of a tropical evergreen tree Anacardium occidentale, in the family Anacardiaceae. It is native to South America and is the source of the cashew nut and the cashew apple, an accessory fruit. The tree can grow as tall as 14 metres (46 feet), but the dwarf cultivars, growing up to 6 m (20 ft ...
Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as milkweeds, named for their latex, a milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides, exuded where cells are damaged. [4] [5] [6] Most species are toxic to humans and many other species, primarily due to the presence of cardenolides.
The coconut tree ( Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family ( Arecaceae) and the only living species of the genus Cocos. [1] The term " coconut " (or the archaic " cocoanut ") [2] can refer to the whole coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which botanically is a drupe, not a nut. They are ubiquitous in coastal tropical regions and ...
Chia seed. Chia seeds are the edible seeds of Salvia hispanica, a flowering plant in the mint family ( Lamiaceae) native to central and southern Mexico, [1] or of the related Salvia columbariae, Salvia polystachia, or Salvia tiliifolia. Chia seeds are oval and gray with black and white spots, having a diameter of around 2 millimetres (0.08 in).