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Cultivated mushrooms with a white cap and stem. Primarily grown in Europe and English speaking countries.

MACEDONIAN MIX 425 ml. Mix of carrots with green peas, green beans and cauliflower or broccoli. Rich in vitamins. Excellent for vegetable salads. Simply add sauce, dressing for salads or mayonnaise.

Groats are the healthiest cereal

In the past groats used to be very popular. Before potatoes became a common part of meals, groats were a important staple of meals. Today they aren’t so common as before, but they are really healthy and it would be good to return to them.

Pumpkin

Latin:

Cucurbita

Pumpkins are plants which have already been cultivated for several thousand years, it originated in America and there are around 20 different varieties.

Pumpkins are rich in minerals salts and vitamins and also quickens digestive process.

100 g pumpkin – 19 kcal

It contains cellulose, protein, carotene, calcium, iron, magnesium phosphorous and vitamins A, B₁, B₂, PP and C.

Slimmer’s pumpkin

Pumpkin is often utilised in slimming diets because of its large proportion of cellulose, water and fibre. It quickens the digestive processes, removes toxins, also removing unnecessary by-products of digestion and regulates the distribution of water in the body.

Valuable interior

Pumpkin’s are rich in mineral salts and vitamins and have something unusually valuable inside – seeds. Pumpkin seeds contain protein, omega-3 fatty acids, selenium, magnesium, zinc, vitamin C and group B vitamins. It aids the healing of urinary tract infections and has a diuretic action, together with healing inflammations, cholagogic action, and helping to eradicate parasites.

Giant pumpkins

In Switzerland each year a competition for the largest pumpkin takes place. The competition’s objects become larger and larger each year reaching as much as 450 kg.

Pumpkins are used as slimming diets as it contains large amounts of cellulose and fibers.

Celtic festival

Not everyone knows that today’s popular US festival Halloween was initiated by the Celts, who celebrated the eve of all Saints Day on October 31st. Believing that the souls of the dead returned on that day to join the bodies of the living. So in order to prevent this they would dress in masks and costumes on the previous evening to scare away demons. Dancing and shouting in front of lighted bonfires they hoped to chase away the souls of the dead. The festival was brought to America in the XIX century by Irish immigrants.

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Want a pumpkin?

Undoubtedly, another hit of this century will be pumpkin-family vegetables, including common pumpkin and winter squash that are particularly rich in β-carotene.

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Imam Bayildi - „Imam fainted” Turkish stuffed eggplant

There are many legends associated with the origin of this dish. One of them tells of a Muslim Imam, who fainted, when tasting the dish for the first time.

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