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Radish is a vegetable annual that belongs to the genus Radish of the Cabbage family. There are biennial varieties of radish, but as a vegetable mostly grown annuals. Radish root crops, dense, juicy, having a pungent taste and fresh aroma (calorizator) are eaten. Often, young radish leaves are added to the dishes if they are not prickly.

Daikon (Japanese radish or baylobo) is a root vegetable, a type of sowing radish from the Cabbage family. Daikon was bred in Japan, while breeding a Chinese root vegetable called “loba” was taken as a basis. Over time, daikon spread throughout Europe, and the Mediterranean countries decided to argue with Japan for the right to be called the daikon homeland. But it was to no avail (kalorizator). Daikon is shaped like a carrot. The fruit is white, can reach half a meter in length and weigh more than 5 kg.

Tomato, tomato is one of the most popular vegetables in the world. Especially love him in the Mediterranean: among the Spanish, Italian or southern French dishes it is difficult to find a recipe in which there are no tomatoes. Their homeland is Latin America, from which the Spaniards took out yellow tomatoes in the 16th century (and the red tomatoes appeared in Europe after two centuries).

Nectarine is a fruit that looks like a peach, but is brighter colored and completely lint-free, its skin is smooth and glossy. There is a misconception that nectarines are a hybrid of peach and plum, in fact - it is a natural mutation of the peach, the so-called "error of nature." For the first time, nectarines were described in the beginning of the 17th century in the books of English botanists, who began to notice that, under unfavorable natural conditions, smooth fruits began to appear on some peach trees (calorizator). Unusual peaches differed from the usual juiciness and sweetness, so breeders began to specifically implant the buds of mutating plants on ordinary peaches. An interesting fact is that sometimes nectarines may appear on peaches in a certain year, and vice versa - not.

Peach, peach tree (lat. Prunus persica, which means "Persian plum") - a plant from the family Pink, a subgenus of Almonds. The tree is very similar in appearance to the almond in everything except fruits. Presumably peach trees came to us from China, but this is not known for certain. They grew up in the wild in northwestern India, then they began to cultivate, penetrated into Persia, and after that they were already brought to Italy - so the peaches came to Europe.

Bulgarian pepper - in cooking, the fruit of the herb of the same name. In its structure, it is a false hollow berry with many small seeds inside. Appearance is characterized by a bell-shaped form, large size and color in various bright shades of red, yellow, orange and green colors. The flesh contained under the thin skin has a crisp structure and a more intense sweet taste than other types of vegetable pepper.

Thermophilic plant bitter pepper is a branching grassy annual with a height of 30-50 centimeters. Saturated green leaves have an elongated shape. Depending on the variety, the fruits of bitter pepper can be from 1.5 to 14 centimeters in length. In the process of ripening, the fruits acquire a bright red color, but they can be plucked for cooking even in green. Pepper contains a whole range of essential vitamins, as well as essential oils and carotene. The use of pure pepper in its pure form is quite controversial. Most often it is used as a condiment to meat and fish dishes, or added to winter preparations.

Common cucumber, or he - sowing cucumber (latin. Sucumis sativus) - herbaceous annual plant of the pumpkin family. This plant with oblong green fruits known to mankind for more than six thousand years. Homeland cucumber - the foot of the Himalayas, tropical areas of the Indian Peninsula, he also met in some areas of Egypt. In the wild form are still found in the Indian tropics, but due to the high content of cucurbitacides, which give the fruit a bitter taste, they are not consumed. Among cucumber crops, there are currently many different varieties. We have cucumbers cultivated approximately from the end of the XVI - beginning of the XVII century. As soon as they became ubiquitous in Europe, they occupied an honorable place among regularly eaten vegetables.

Carrots are perhaps the most popular root vegetable after potatoes, and this is not by chance: carrots contain all the vitamins and microelements that a person needs. The bright orange carrot we used to spread in Europe only in the XVII-XVIII centuries, before the Europeans ate mostly white and purple. The red color of carrots depends on the presence of beta-carotene in it: the larger it is, the brighter and healthier the carrot is (by the way, no other vegetable or root crop is equal to the amount of beta-carotene).

Onion - an onion of the same name plant, one of the most common vegetable crops in the world. In addition to it, the leaves of young plants are used for culinary purposes.

Leek (pearl onions) - the stem and leaves of the plant of the same name, one of the varieties of onions, cultivated in regions with temperate and cold climates. They are less intense than those of onions, spicy taste.

Lemon is the name of a plant of the citrus family and fruits of the same name. Such countries as India are considered the birthplace of this fruit, from where it spread first to China and the countries of Southeast Asia, and then to Europe and around the world. And today, this fruit is widely distributed in most countries with a subtropical and tropical climate. The fruit of a lemon is an elongated oval (length 6–9 cm, diameter 4–6 cm), tapered to both ends, and covered with a dense, tuberous skin of a light yellow color. The light yellow pulp of lemons has a characteristic sour taste and, like other citrus fruits, is divided into lobules, inside of which there are small dense bones. Lemon is widely used in the cooking, medicine and cosmetic industries.