Even before cultivation, wild carrots were used centuries ago for medicinal purposes. As a pre-cursor for vitamin A, beta carotene, the yellow-orange pigment found in orange carrots is a powerful…
Wild spinach originated from central and southwestern Asia (ancient Persia) and is still gathered wild there. It spread to Nepal and China and ultimately to the Mediterranean with the Arab…
Pomegranates were probably native to the area around present-day Iran and Northern India and then spread to the Mediterranean where they have been cultivated for thousands of years. Many of…