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retention. The active ingredients in restharrow are essential oils, flavonoid-glycosides, and tannins. Restharrows are used as food plants by the larvae...

tropane alkaloids that are sometimes used as a hallucinogen. The active ingredients are atropine, hyoscyamine and scopolamine which are classified as deliriants...

lightly toasting and then crushing the tiny seedpods before adding them to food. Only the husks are used; the seeds are discarded or ignored. It is generally...

must be made in a very short time, or are of delicate feeding habits. Their food, therefore, must be easily assimilable. It is good practice to pile all coarse...

important human food grain and ranks second in total production as a cereal crop behind maize; the third being rice. Wheat grain is a staple food used to make...

mashua (T. tuberosum) produces an edible underground tuber that is a major food source in parts of the Andes. Nasturtiums are also considered widely useful...

transmit Fasciolopsiasis. Aquatic plants Water caltrop McGee, Harold (2004). On Food and Cooking (Revised Edition). Scribner. ISBN 0-684-80001-2.  p. 308. nutritiondata...

yezoensis and P. tenera. The term nori is also commonly used to refer to the food products created from these so-called "sea vegetables". Finished products...

powder" was developed by the British, who wished to take the taste of Indian food home, without having to utilize fresh spices. As a result "curry powder"...

sweetener in China for nearly a millennium due to its flavor and lack of food energy, only 2.3 kcal/g (9.6 kJ/g). It has also been used in traditional...

formulae are based on the Chinese philosophy of balancing the yin and yang in food. A pinch of the powder goes a long way. Although this spice is used in restaurant...

ports. It is a purgative, similar to aloe and rhubarb in having as active ingredients anthraquinone derivatives and their glucosides. Its action is on the lower...

during times of food shortages and war and noting loss of muscle strength, probably due to the fact that Ipomoea aquatica contains less food energy than rice...

berries last well into the winter or dry season and are an important survival food for birds and other animals, though they will not eat them until other sources...

a significant ingredient in most commercial curry powders. Turmeric (coded as E100 when used as a food additive) is used to protect food products from...

the ingredients for puffed rice can be just rice and perhaps salt for taste. Other products like Rice Krispies or Sugar Pops mix many ingredients into...

Kombu is used extensively in Japanese cuisines as one of the three main ingredients needed to make dashi, a soup stock. Kombu is usually sold dried or in...

known as Gahat, Kulath or Kulthi in India and is grown here to be used as food and fodder. Horse gram and moth bean are the unexploited legumes of the tropics...

lightly toasting and then crushing the tiny seedpods before adding them to food. Only the husks are used; the seeds are discarded or ignored. It is generally...

finely grated before use, or as a ready-to-use paste (horseradish, mustard and food coloring), usually in tubes approximately the size and shape of travel toothpaste...