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Soybeans and products made from soy have been shown to support overall health. Soybean benefits are many: It is a nutrient-rich food, supports post-menopausal health, and potentially lowers cancer risk. Soybeans are a good source of protein, heart-healthy fat, fiber, potassium, and phytonutrients, as well as low in fat.1 In addition to whole foods, soy is available in supplement form including tablets and powders. Soy is a product that comes from soybean, a legume that is prevalent in East Asia. It is found in many foods including milk, tofu, edamame, and processed foods like breads, cereals, snack bars, and processed meats. Soy is most commonly eaten as a plant protein as it has all the amino acids that act as the building blocks of protein. This article discusses the health benefits of soybeans and soy products. It also covers preparation and potential side effects. is the very good product.
The onion is a biennial plant but is usually grown as an annual. Modern varieties typically grow to a height of 15 to 45 cm. They are fleshy, hollow, and cylindrical, with one flattened side. They are at their broadest about a quarter of the way up, beyond which they taper to blunt tips. The base of each leaf is a flattened, usually white sheath that grows out of the basal plate of a bulb. From the underside of the plate, a bundle of fibrous roots extends for a short way into the soil. As the onion matures, food reserves accumulate in the leaf bases, and the bulb of the onion swells.
Potato plants are herbaceous perennials that grow up to 1 metre (3.3 ft) high. The stems are hairy. The leaves have roughly four pairs of leaflets. The flowers range from white or pink to blue or purple; they are yellow at the centre, and are insect-pollinated. The plant develops tubers to store nutrients. These are not roots but stems that form from thickened rhizomes at the tips of long thin stolons. The lenticels are circular and their number varies depending on the size of the tuber and environmental conditions. After flowering, potato plants produce small green fruits that resemble green cherry tomatoes, each containing about 300 very small seeds.
When Christopher Columbus and his crew reached the Caribbean, they were the first Europeans to encounter Capsicum fruits. They called them "peppers" because, like black pepper (Piper nigrum), which had long been known in Europe, they have a hot spicy taste unlike other foods. Chilies were first brought back to Europe by the Spanish, who financed Columbus's voyages, at the start of the large-scale interchange of plants and culture between the New World and the Old World called the Columbian exchange. Chilies appear in Spanish records by 1493. Unlike Piper vines, which grow naturally only in the tropics, chilies could be grown in temperate climates. By the mid-1500s, they had become a common garden plant in Spain and were incorporated into numerous dishes. By 1526, they had appeared in Italy, in 1543 in Germany, and by 1569 in the Balkans, where they came to be processed into paprika.