medicinal

An incredibly valuable medicinal plant, dandelion tastes bitter and salty. All parts of the plant can be used — root, leaves and flowers — as a food and a remedy.

Herbs are among the most satisfying plants to grow and use regularly in your cooking because they are all-round nutritional superstars.

Orange fruit not only provides a variety of nutrients, but the skin, oils and seeds are also used medicinally.

Cloves are a flavoursome spice but they also have powerful and well-recognised medicinal effects.

The fragrant kitchen-pantry staple rosemary has long been favoured for its medicinal properties, which are just as attractive as its taste.

Tens of thousands of years ago Neanderthals were using plants as medicine.