Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
1,514 Jicama Yam Bean Root Food Edible root - raw or cooked. Crisp, sweet and juicy, it tastes somewhat like an apple when raw and a water chestnut when cooked. It also stays crisp after being cooked, which makes it a popular substitute for water chestnuts in Chinese cooking. A starch extracted from the root is used in custards and puddings. 5,575
1,515 Jicama Yam Bean Pod Food Young seedpods - cooked and used as a vegetable. They must be thoroughly cooked in order to destroy the poisonous principle rotenone. 5,575
1,516 Malabar Spinach Root Medicinal The roots are astringent. They are cooked and used in the treatment of diarrhoea. A paste of the root is applied to swellings and is also used as a rubefacient. 6,481
1,517 Malabar Spinach Leaf Medicinal The leaves and stems are cooked and eaten for their laxative properties. The leaf juice is a demulcent, used in cases of dysentery. It is also diuretic, febrifuge and laxative. The leaf juice is used in Nepal to treat catarrh. A paste of the leaves is applied externally to treat boils and sores. 6,481
1,518 Malabar Spinach Flower Medicinal The flowers are used as an antidote to poisons. 6,481
1,519 Malabar Spinach Fruit Medicinal The red juice of the fruit is used as eye drops to treat conjunctivitis. 6,481
1,520 Malabar Spinach Fruit Industrial A red dye is obtained from the juice of the fruits. It has been used as a rouge, an ink, for colouring foods and also as a dye for official seals. 6,481
1,521 Chayote Whole Food Its immature fruits, young leaves and shoots, and tuberous roots are all consumed. 2,689
1,522 Chayote Whole Feed (Forage/Fodder) Fruits, shoots and tubers are also used as fodder and forage for pigs, poultry and cattle. 2,689
1,523 Chayote Stem Fibre Fibres of the stem are used locally to make hats and baskets. 2,689
1,524 Malabar Spinach (Basella rubra) Leaf Food Ceylon spinach is listed as food plant of the Philippine, where it is boiled and eaten like spinach. 6,349
1,525 Malabar Spinach (Basella rubra) Leaf Medicinal The purpled leaves are used in both India and Malaya to poultice sore. 6,349
1,526 Machurian Wild Rice Grain Food Grains of Z. latifolia have been used for food, sometimes in the form of flour. 8,496
1,527 Machurian Wild Rice Rhizome Medicinal The culms, rhizomes and grains are prescribed during fevers for their cooling, diuretic, and thirst-relieving properties. The ash of the rhizomes mixed with white of egg is an ointment for burns. 8,496
1,528 African Rice Grain Food In parts of West Africa the grain of African rice is a staple food. 8,498
1,529 African Rice Grain Feed (Forage/Fodder) The finer parts of the bran and broken grains are given as feed to chicken and other livestock. 8,498
1,530 Quinoa Grain Food Quinoa grain can be cooked (boiled) in the same manner as rice and provides a tasty, fluffy, chewy food with nutlike flavour. It can be added to soups, stews or "tamales". Quinoa grain can be used as a breakfast cereal or it can be ground to make porridge or flour and is then used in bakery to make, breads, pancakes, pastries and biscuits. It can partially replace wheat in loaf breads. Being gluten-free, quinoa grain is included in many food recipes intended for people with celiac disease (gluten intolerance) and is well accepted by consumers. 2,039
1,531 Taro (Cocoyam) Tuber Food They can be boiled, baked, fried etc in much the same way as potatoes. They can be used in savoury dishes such as soups and curries, or in sweet dishes with coconut milk, sugar etc. They can also be dried and then grated to make a flour. 2,382
1,532 Quinoa Whole Medicinal The leaves, stems and grain have medicinal uses. 2,039
1,533 Quinoa Forage (fresh) Feed (Forage/Fodder) Leaves, seeds and crop residues from grain harvesting and milling can be fed to livestock. 2,039