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The spicy truth about real wasabi
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Chef tossing vegetables in a frying pan over a burner (skillet, food).
What’s on the Menu? Vocabulary Quiz
Red and yellow cherry tomatoes, some forming a question mark, against a light blue background. (organic, fruits, vegetables)
Fruit or Vegetable? A Quiz
Venus's-flytrap. Venus's-flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) one of the best known of the meat-eating plants. Carnivorous plant, Venus flytrap, Venus fly trap
Plants: From Cute to Carnivorous
Chocolate bar broken into pieces. (sweets; dessert; cocoa; candy bar; sugary)
Food Around the World
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Plant seedlings emerging from rich fertile soil
Do Plants Feel Pain?
Flower bingo
Britannica’s Flower Bingo
curly kale. Kale or borecole (Brassica oleracea Acephala Group) a loose leafed, edible plant derived from the cabbage. vegetable
Nutritional Powerhouses: 8 Foods That Pack a Nutritional Punch
Anemone coronaria, the poppy anemone, Spanish marigold, or windflower, is a species of flowering plant.
What’s the Difference Between Angiosperms and Gymnosperms?
Hemp (Cannabis sativa).
9 Mind-Altering Plants
Discover
Lusitania sinking, illustration from The War of the Nations (New York), December 31, 1919. World War I, WWI. This image is one of three on the page. (See source file for the other two.)
7 of the World’s Deadliest Shipwrecks
Easter Procession of Maria Santisima del Sacromonte in Granada, Spain. This statue is known as Virgen de los Gitanos or The Virgin of the Gypsies.
What is Holy Week?
Rural Irish landscape, Sligo, Ireland.
Why Is Ireland Two Countries?
Hemp (Cannabis sativa).
9 Mind-Altering Plants
Small, white rat (genus Rattus) on a glass table. (rodent, laboratory, experiment)
Cruel and Unusual Punishments: 15 Types of Torture
Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
German machine gunners occupy a trench during World War I.
Weapons of World War I

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The spicy truth about real wasabi
Learn the truth about wasabi (Eutrema japonicum).
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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wasabi rhizomes
Fresh wasabi (Eutrema japonicum) rhizomes for sale.
© Jason Slomovitz/Dreamstime.com
wasabi plant
Wasabi (Eutrema japonicum) in flower.
© Olga Dmitrieva/Dreamstime.com
wasabi farm
A wasabi farm in Nagano, Japan. The streamlike fields are gently flooded to emulate...
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Sushi rolls
California rolls served with wasabi paste and pickled ginger.
© Maksud/stock.adobe.com
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