{"product_id":"9781875093564","title":"Food Plants of the World","description":"\u003cp\u003eFood Plants of the World is a comprehensive overview of the plants that provide us with food, beverages, spices and flavours. It is written in easy language but gives accurate scientific information on the plants and their uses. The book includes:\u003cbr\u003eDescriptions of more than 350 food and flavour plants and their close relatives. For each plant, the following information is given: plant description, origin, history, cultivation, harvesting, properties and culinary uses.\u003cbr\u003eMore than 1000 excellent full-colour photographs, showing the plants, flowers and actual plant parts used.\u003cbr\u003eIntroductory chapters on each of the various categories of plant use: cereals, pulses (legumes), nuts \u0026amp; seeds, fruits, vegetables, culinary herbs, sugar plants, beverages, spices \u0026amp; flavourings.\u003cbr\u003eInteresting facts about the historical and contemporary uses of the various plant-derived products.\u003cbr\u003eA quick guide and checklist of more than 800 of the most important and well-known food plants of the world, listed according to scientific name but giving the common names, family name, region of origin, plant parts used, and major nutrients.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Ben-Erik+van+Wyk\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eBen-Erik van Wyk\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ben-Erik van Wyk","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47587417391267,"sku":"9781875093564","price":370.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781875093564_3e3385b1-508d-4bdc-bf4c-0a5208b1e150.jpg?v=1776608821","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9781875093564","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}