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- The scotch bonnet and habanero are members of this family...
- The commercial version contains at least 80% milkfat.
- This has its origins as an edible plate and didn't start to take on its current familiarity until the tomato arrived from the New World.
- It breaks down into diketopiperazine, aspartyl-phenylalanine, phenylalanine, methanol, formaldehyde and formic acid after consumption...
- The vehicle by which many plants disseminate seeds...
- Vanilla beans are found in the seed pods of an...
- These two health conscious brothers invented the first cold cereal. They ran a sanitarium where one of their patients was C.W.Post.
- The harder the wheat kernel, the more...
- The resins from the mastic, spruce and sapodilla tree were once used to make this... which is nowadays most often made with synthetic materials.
- Ranks second only to potatoes as the most popular vegetable in the US...
- Potatoes contain toxic compounds known as glycoalkaloids, which protect the plant from its predators. A green potato (a sign of alkaloids) exposed to ... will become toxic.
- Hawaii is the only U.S. state where coffee will take hold. Coffee grown in Hawaii is known as...
- The darker the brown sugar is, the more it contains of this...
- These potatoes cost about 200 times more than whole raw potatoes.
- When you leaven today's bread with yesterday's or last week's dough.
- After water this is the most popular beverage in the world...
- During fermentation this is what adds color to wine...
- What Australian nut was named after John MacAdam?
- Today 30-40% of the croissants sold in French bakeries and patisseries are...
- Before refrigeration we dried, salted, smoked or... food.
- Native to China. Alexander the Great brought them back to Europe. Early on they were called Persian apples.
- There are approximately 7,500 cultivated varieties around the world. But only 10 varieties account for 90 percent of all sales. The Lady is one of the oldest varieties in existence....
- A sugar crop that grows in temperate climates. It is mainly used commercially.
- The U.S. grows 44,000,000,000 (44 Billion) pounds of these a year... China grows 154 Billion...
- Large grains, no additives, half as salty as table salt...
- Spicy foods are popular in warm climates because they help cool the body by making you...
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- A member of the lily family that is not harvested for the first 2-3 years, but then produces and lives for 15-20 years. The fruit is a small red berry. We don't eat the berry or the flower. Popular throughout recorded history...depicted on an Egyptian frieze of 3000 B.C, mentioned in the oldest surviving recipe book...
- A cookbook published in Naples in 1692 is the earliest discovered cookbook with recipes using this new world fruit (classified as a vegetable but actually a berry).
- Fermented soybean paste...
- A green tomato surrounded by a paper-like husk...
- 92% water by weight and 1200 varieties...
- The cold, solid form of carbon dioxide.
- The Amazon cow tree produces a sap or latex that looks like and can be drunk like...
- The ice cream soda was all the rage in the late 1800s. Then in 1890, when soda was banned on Sundays by certain municipalities, this was birthed...
- The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has estimated that direct emissions from meat production account for about 18% of the world's total emissions of...
- Dry seed legumes (in a pod).
- Lima beans contain linamarin which releases a cyanide compound when the seed coat is opened. Therefore they should never be eaten...
- Wheat groats are known as...
- Pizza turnover...
- Manioc, tapioca, cassava is also known as...
- We eat the whole fruit either unripe (green) or ripe (black), but only after they are pickled.
- Spices usually come from tropical regions. They can be seeds, buds, bark, roots, fruits, flower parts. Herbs are generally from temperate zones and are this part of the plant...
- A peppercorn-like spice native to America which tastes like a combination of cloves, cinnamon and nutmeg...
- The first sans caffeine coffee was...
- Pods from an epiphyte (air plant), native to Central America. Picked while green and then cured for 6 months or so...
- Do not use or consume animal products of any kind.
- Each day 400 million M&M's are produced but only 80 million Hershey's...
- Dried, powdered red capsicum...
- Northern Red, Mexico, Empire Sweet, Western White, Peruvian Sweet, Imperial Valley Sweet, Western Yellow and Pungent Yellow are varieties of...
- The Arab world took hold of the coffee market early on and for years did not allow the export of seed or plants. Dutch merchants smuggled seedlings and started coffee plantations in...
- Oranges are a winter or early spring crop and need some chill in the air to develop their...
- 75% of the world's adult population cannot properly digest these products...
- What is added to cooking wines to make them legal to sell without a liquor licence?
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