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It's Onion Day! It's Onion Day!

The onion, also known as the bulb onion or common onion, is a vegetable that is the most widely cultivated species of the genus Allium.

There are 27 different types of onion, green, purple, yellow or white.

Health Benefits of Onions

Onions are healthy, whether they are eaten raw or cooked and have a plethora of benefits to our health.

1. Improving heart health

Onions are..

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It's Sweetcorn day!🌽 It's Sweetcorn day!🌽

It's not one of our national celebration days today but instead we are celebrating sweetcorn!🌽Read on to find out more...

“Sweetcorn is a variety of maize grown for human consumption with a high sugar content. Sweet corn is the result of a naturally occurring recessive mutation in the genes which control conversion of sugar to starch inside the endosperm of the corn kernel...

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