Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
1,634 Sweet Potato Tuber Feed (Forage/Fodder) Sweet potato are used as feed. 8,751
1,635 Sweet Potato Tuber Industrial In temperate Asia is produced for industrial purposes, mainly for starch and alcohol. 8,751
1,636 Rhubarb Root Medicinal Rhubarb has a long and proven history of herbal usage, its main effect being a positive and balancing effect upon the whole digestive system. It is one of the most widely used herbs in Chinese medicine. The root is anticholesterolemic, antiseptic, antispasmodic, antitumor, aperient, astringent, cholagogue, demulcent, diuretic, laxative, purgative, stomachic and tonic 8,778
1,637 Sweet Potato Leaf Food Young shoots are often consumed as a green vegetable. 8,751
1,638 Fig-leaved Gourd Fruit Food Fig-leaf gourd is mainly grown for its large fruits. The tender immature fruits are used like summer squash or cucumber. 8,779
1,639 Fig-leaved Gourd Leaf Food The young leaves and vine tips may be prepared as a green vegetable. 8,779
1,640 Fig-leaved Gourd Whole Ornamental Fig-leaf gourd is also cultivated for its ornamental watermelon-like fruits and abundant foliage. 8,779
1,641 Fig-leaved Gourd Flower Food The male flowers and buds are used in soups, stews and salads. 8,779
1,642 Jerusalem Artichoke Tuber Food Edible tuber which is served as a vegetable dish. 8,767
1,643 Jerusalem Artichoke Tuber Feed (Forage/Fodder) Pigs, chickens and rabbits relish the raw tubers. The fresh foliage may serve as a forage, mainly for horses, mules and ruminants. 8,767
1,644 Fig-leaved Gourd Fruit Beverages The flesh of the mature fruits is often impregnated with sugar, and the resulting product used as candy or "dulce". It may also be fermented to make an alcoholic beverage. 8,779
1,645 Jerusalem Artichoke Whole (without root) Ornamental Early-flowering cultivars are popular as ornamentals. 8,767
1,646 Common Wheat Grain Food Fine ground, it is the source of flour for the world's breadmaking. 5,301
1,647 Common Wheat Grain Beverages Grain also is the source of alcoholic beverages. 5,301
1,648 Common Wheat Seed (dry) Feed (Forage/Fodder) Bran from flour milling also an important livestock feed; germ is valuable addition to feed concentrate. 5,301
1,649 Jerusalem Artichoke Tuber Medicinal H. tuberosus have aperient, aphrodisiac, cholagogue, diuretic, spermatogenic, stomachic, and tonic effects and has been utilized as a folk medicine for the treatment of rheumatism. 8,780
1,650 Jerusalem Artichoke Tuber Industrial H. tuberosus tubers are an important source of fructose for industry. It can be used to make sweetening and inulin-rich floury products. 8,780
1,651 Common Wheat Whole (without root) Feed (Forage/Fodder) Wheat grown for grain crop is also used for pasture before the stems elongate and as a temporary pasturage; it is nutritious and palatable 5,301
1,652 Common Wheat Seed Medicinal The seeds are used in folk remedies for cancers, corns, tumors, warts, and whitlow. Reported to be antivinous, bilious, demulcent, discutient, diuretic, emollient, excipient, intoxicant, laxative, useful as a poultice, restorative, sedative, used as a shampoo and vulnerary 5,301
1,653 Common Wheat Forage (dry) Industrial Straw made into mats, carpets, baskets, and used for packing material, cattle bedding, and paper manufacturing. 5,301