1:30
Can you guess the food?
Hint: There is confusion surrounding the terminology related to the name of this fruit. Technically the “real” version of this food has a rough, warty, unnetted, lightly ribbed, pale gray-green hard rind, while North Americans associate this food with varieties that have a reticulated (net-like or spiderweb-like) peel. Today the name of this food represents any orange-fleshed versions belonging to Cucumis melo.
1:28
Can you guess the food?
Hint: This food grows in a unique manner. It is the seed found within a kidney shaped stone fruit located at the end of a false fruit, which is technically a swollen stem. This false fruit (called an ‘apple’) is edible as well when fresh but is highly perishable; it is made into preserves, used in juice, and can be fermented to produce alcohol.
1:30
Can you guess the food?
Hint: The true source of this food was kept secret from the Western world for centuries. In order to drive up prices and deter competitors, merchants crafted fantastical tales about the origin of this food and the grueling work it took to collect it. They said this food came from the nests of a giant bird, which had to be lured to the ground with chunks of oxen and donkey. When the bird returned to its nest with the meat, the weight would be too much for the nest to hold, causing it to break and fall to the ground where it could then be collected!
1:24
Can you guess the food?
Hint one: This veggie is a best source of vitamin K (142%), glucosinolates (64.6 mg), polyphenols (710.0 mg), and carotenoids (5223.1 ug), an excellent source of vitamin C (32%), and a good source of vitamin A (12%). On a per gram weight basis, this veggie contains one of the highest concentrations of glucosinolates and carotenoids of any vegetable!
1:30
Can you guess the food?
Hint one: This food, along with its juice and peel can be used in all kinds of interesting ways – as a fish marinade, meat tenderizer, culinary garnish, to prevent oxidation in other fruits, to create invisible ink or to highlight hair, but most prominently it can be used as an effective cleaning agent. Even its leaves can be used for tea and to prepare cooked meats and seafood.
1:30
Can you guess the food?
Hint one: This vegetable is popular in Asian cuisine. In fact, it is so popular in Asian dishes, it is sold in a variety of forms, including canned, dried, fermented, frozen, pickled, roasted, and fresh, where they provide a much-loved sweetness and crunch to many dishes, especially stir-fries. It can even be made into juice and beer!
1:29
Can You Guess the Food?
Hint number one: This vegetable is the top food source of thiosulfinates, providing 81.4 mg per serving fresh and a whopping 206.3 mg per serving when used as a spice in dehydrated form. Thiosulfinates are sulfur-containing compounds which are responsible for diverse beneficial effects including powerful anticancer properties as well as antioxidant, antiinflammatory, and antithrombotic effects.
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