Capsicum is also known as red pepper, chili pepper, jalapeno and bell pepper. Capsicum is a most popular vegetable used in the preparations of Chinese and Italian dishes. It color may be green, red and yellow having bell like shape with crunchy, thick fleshy texture. It is used in the many dishes to make it…

Dates are very delicious and nutritious sweet fruit comes from Date Palm Tree grown in desserts. It is dark reddish brown in color having a large seed in it and oval in shape. It has sticky, waxy and wrinkles on the skin. It is used as raw, dried, sweet pudding, cakes, milk shakes and much…

Passion or Granadillas is a sweet, tart and tropical fruit known for its unique, cool and refreshing taste having small egg like shape and guava, pineapple and lemons like in taste. It is a jelly filled pulp and lots of black seeds containing fruit. Its color may be yellow to purple. It is used as…

Black pepper is a spice also known as “kali mirch” or “king of spice”. It is native to India from Kerala. It comes from pepper fruit also known as peppercorn obtained from this plant looks like a berry fruit and belongs to Piperaceae family. It is used as a spice (main ingredient of Indian Garam…

Clove is also known as Lavnga or Laung. It is a herb comes from clove tree in the form of dried unopened flower. It has strong pungent aroma and spicy in taste. Its flower buds are pink color in initial stage, gradually turn to green and finally turns brown when dried. It is used as…

Hummus is a traditional Middle Eastern dip dish looks like peanut butter’s texture. It is also known as “hamos, hommus, hummous and hommos”. It is a thick paste or dip made from cooked or mashed chickpeas (also known as garbanzo beans), tahini (Sesame seed butter), pepper, olive oil, salt, garlic and lemon juice. Its making…

Almonds are one of the best nutritional powerhouse fruit available whole year in the market. Almonds comes in two varieties, i.e bitter and sweet. Sweet almonds are edible, so they used as raw and bitter almonds are mainly used for the preparation of almond oil. My mother also gave me soaked almonds in my daily…

Olives are the essential well known fruit mainly cropped in the Mediterranean regions. Its tree is considered as a symbol of peace and glory. it is used as raw, oil, cooking, salads dressing, baking, cosmetics, as a fuel, medicinal and pharmaceuticals purposes also. Its oil is the main content of the Mediterranean diet, which is…

Milk is a complete superfood gifted by God to humans specially. Each and every person in this world starts drinking milk after birth. God knows that the new born baby can’t eat any thing, so God made milk for infants, younger and finally adults. It is used as raw, desserts, cookies, yogurts, smoothies, butter, cheese,…

Bottle guard is also known as “Lauki” or “Ghiya” in our India. It is the one of the most popular vegetable of India and available whole year in the market. It also belongs to the gourd family such as pumpkin and the butternut squash. Its color is yellowish green having smooth skin and bottle like…