Tag: Antioxidant

Japanese parsley, better known as mitsuba, is a delicate leafy herb from East Asia that sits somewhere between a culinary garnish and a traditional...

Japanese mugwort, Artemisia princeps, is an aromatic East Asian herb that lives at the crossroads of food, folk medicine, and formal herbal practice. In...

Japanese knotweed, botanically known as Reynoutria japonica, is one of those plants that carries two very different reputations at once. In many countries it...

Japanese horseradish, better known worldwide as wasabi, is one of those plants that people think they know until they meet the real thing. The...

Japanese honeysuckle, or Lonicera japonica, is a fragrant climbing vine best known in herbal medicine for its flower buds and newly opened flowers. In...

Japanese ginger, better known in Japan as myoga, is a distinctive member of the ginger family grown mainly for its unopened flower buds and...

Japanese cornel, Cornus officinalis, is the dried ripe fruit of an East Asian dogwood long used in traditional Chinese, Korean, and Japanese medicine. In...

Japanese barberry is a thorny deciduous shrub best known as an ornamental plant, but its story is more complex than its landscaping role suggests....

Japanese angelica tree, known botanically as Aralia elata, is an East Asian medicinal and edible plant with a surprisingly broad reputation. Its young spring...

Jambu Air, the crisp, bell-shaped fruit of Syzygium aqueum, sits in an interesting place between food and folk medicine. In Southeast Asia, it is...

Jamaican sorrel is the deep red, tart calyx of Hibiscus sabdariffa, a plant known across the Caribbean, West Africa, Latin America, and parts of...

Jamaican cherry is a small tropical tree best known for its soft, sweet red fruit and a long record of traditional use in warm...

Jacob's ladder, better known to botanists as Polemonium caeruleum, is a traditional medicinal herb with a long history in Eastern European and Russian practice....

Jackfruit is a tropical fruit from the mulberry family that stands out for its size, versatility, and unusually broad nutrition profile. When ripe, it...

Jaboticaba is a dark purple Brazilian fruit best known for an unusual trait: it grows directly on the trunk and larger branches of the...

Ivy gourd, or Coccinia grandis, is a fast-growing tropical vine in the cucumber family that is used both as a vegetable and as a...

Italian woodbine, also known as Italian honeysuckle, is a fragrant climbing shrub best known for its cream-to-pink tubular flowers and sweet evening scent. Botanically,...

Italian thistle, botanically known as Carduus pycnocephalus, is a prickly annual or biennial plant in the daisy family that is better known as a...

Italian Spurge, or Euphorbia characias, is a striking Mediterranean shrub best known for its lime-green flower heads, blue-gray foliage, and thick white latex. In...

Italian Lavender, botanically known as Lavandula stoechas, is a Mediterranean aromatic herb often grouped under the broader lavender umbrella, though it is not the...

Italian larch, or Larix decidua, is a deciduous conifer better known for mountain forests and durable timber than for modern herbal medicine. Yet across...

Italian goldenrod, identified botanically as Solidago virgaurea, is better known in the scientific and regulatory literature as European goldenrod. It is a flowering herb...

The plant referred to here as Italian camphor is Tetraclinis articulata, a resinous Mediterranean conifer more commonly known as sandarac tree or Barbary thuya....

Italian Bugloss, botanically known as Anchusa azurea, is a vivid blue-flowering herb from the borage family that has a longer folk-medicine history than most...