Tag: Metabolic Health

Barberry is a tart, jewel-toned fruit from the shrub Berberis vulgaris, long valued both as food and as herbal medicine. In the kitchen, dried...

Bailan melon (Benincasa hispida) is better known globally as winter melon, wax gourd, or ash gourd—a mild, water-rich fruit often treated like a vegetable...

Avocado is one of the few fruits that behaves like a “built-in dressing”: creamy, satisfying, and naturally low in sugar. That texture comes from...

Ashitaba is a vivid green Japanese herb sometimes called “tomorrow’s leaf” because it can regrow quickly after harvesting. People use it as a vegetable,...

Annatto is the warm, sunset-colored seasoning behind many golden cheeses, butter shades, and Latin American dishes that taste like “home.” It comes from the...

Amla, also called Indian gooseberry, is a tart, pale-green fruit used for centuries in Ayurvedic traditions and increasingly studied as a modern functional food....

Alfalfa is best known as a hardy forage crop, but its tender sprouts and leafy tops also show up in kitchens and supplement aisles....

Agave is often marketed as a “natural” wellness ingredient, but it is really a family of desert plants that can be turned into very...

Acai is a deep-purple Amazonian fruit that behaves less like a shelf-stable “berry” and more like a fresh food with a short clock. Once...