Julius Caesar may have drawn up plans to conquer Europe while eating asparagus, Confucius pondered humanity, and Plato wrote his dialogues. Asparagus has been a sought-after delicacy since time immemorial. The oldest known records date back 5,000 years....

We're hearing more and more about xylitol . It's a kind of substitute for traditional white sugar. Xylitol, also known as birch sugar, is a natural sweetener derived from Finnish birch bark, among other things, but not only....

Rooibos originates from South Africa. In African, rooi means red and bos means bush. The popularity of the red bush, grown in the Cederberg Mountains, has reached almost the entire world. Why has the rooibos shrub spread so...

Basil is one of the most popular and widely used herbs in our kitchens, both in dried form and in the form of fresh, aromatic leaves that adorn our kitchen windowsills. It's hard to imagine spaghetti, pizza, pesto,...

For thousands of years, the inhabitants of the Mediterranean basin have cultivated olive trees and used their fruits in their daily lives. Olives and olive oil were used in traditional cuisine. Olive oil and olive leaves had therapeutic...

The history of amaranth is quite long. Already 4 thousand years ago, the legendary Mayans and Aztecs took advantage of its rich nutritional properties. Its cultivation was organized in large fields, and the plant was treated as sacred....