Part of our diet is the intake of vitamins, and minerals and fiber come from fruits and vegetables. Due to consumer demand for dietary convenience and awareness of health benefits, the consumption of minimally processed ready-to-eat products has greatly increased. The main components of onions are water (89.1%), carbohydrates (9.3%), protein (1.1%), fat (0.1%), vitamins,…
Onion (Allium cepa L.) as the second most widely grown vegetable, onions are estimated to produce 64 million tons worldwide in 2014. It is also one of the most important horticultural crops and is widely used for food and medical purposes. The world’s largest producers are China, India and the United States. Their annual output…
The jalapeño, also known as cuaresmeño, takes its name from the city of Jalapa, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico where around 5,000 hectares are planted. The use of jalapeño in the Americas can be traced back thousands of years, including the use of some smoking methods to protect them. A raw jalapeño is a…
The tomato is the edible and commonly known as a tomato plant. The Nahuatl (the language used by the Aztecs) word tomatl gave rise to the Spanish word tomate, from which the English word tomato derived. The wild species of tomato originated in the Andes Mountains of South America, probably mainly in Peru and Ecuador,…
As a culinary commodity, bell peppers are known in their dried form including chili pepper and paprika. Fruits are used in salads, filling or baking, added to soups and stews, dried and used as cooking seasonings or pickled, while leaves make a good spinach dish. Bell pepper is the most popular and widely used condiment…
Mexico is believed to be the centre of origin of Bell Pepper(Capsicum Annuum). As one of the earliest domesticated plants in Central America, bell peppers have been widely known since the beginning of civilization in the Western Hemisphere, and have been part of the human diet since 7500 BC. It was either Christopher Columbus or…
Broccoli have been classified in convar. botrytis (L.) Alef., as var. botrytis L. and var. italica Plenck, respectively. In broccoli the single headed ‘calabrese’ type with a compact dome-shaped head with small beads (flower buds) is grown worldwide, under conditions comparable to the summer types of temperate cauliflower. The buds are preferably dark green. Broccoli…
“There is no such thing as a little garlic.” -Arthur Baer BRIEF INTRODUCTION AND HISTORY OF GARLIC Garlic (Allium sativum) is a species in the onion genus,Allium. Numerous cuneiform records show that garlic has been cultivated in Mesopotamia for at least 4,000 years. The Shi-Ching (Book of Odes), a Chinese classic compiled by Confucius (551–…