Uses

ID Crop ID Part Use Category Notes Metadata ID
674 French Bean (Common Bean) Pod Medicinal The green pods are mildly diuretic and contain a substance that reduces the blood sugar level. The dried mature pod is used in the treatment of diabetes. 8,263
675 French Bean (Common Bean) Seed Medicinal The seed is diuretic, hypoglycaemic and hypotensive. Ground into a flour, it is used externally in the treatment of ulcers. The seed is also used in the treatment of cancer of the blood. When bruised and boiled with garlic they have cured intractable coughs. 8,263
676 Cowpea Seed Food The mature seeds are cooked and eaten alone or together with vegetables, spices and often palm oil, to produce a thick bean soup, which accompanies the staple food. 8,263
677 Cowpea Leaf Food Cowpea leaves are served boiled or fried and are usually eaten with a porridge. 8,263
678 Cowpea Pod Food The tender seedless cowpea pods are sometimes used as a cooked vegetable, as are young pods of yard-long bean. 8,263
679 Cowpea Forage (fresh) Feed (Forage/Fodder) Cowpea is used as fodder in West Africa, Asia (especially India) and Australia; it is used for grazing or cut and mixed with dry cereals for animal feed. 8,263
680 Cowpea Plant Fiber Fibre In Nigeria special cultivars are grown for the fibre extracted from the peduncle after retting; the strong fibre is especially suitable for fishing gear, and produces a good-quality paper. 8,263
681 Asam Gelugur Shoot Food The shoot usually used as dish (ulam) which can reduced the high blood pressure. 1,973
682 Kundang Fruit Food The use of the young fruit is more important; they serve as an ingredient of a special kind of 'sambal', the chilli-based condiment, and in pickles - the bright purple cotyledons in the big seed adding to the attraction of the concoction. 2,127
683 Quinoa Grain Beverages The grain can be fermented to prepare hot or cold beverages and beer. It can be used in the preparation of chicha, a reference beverage on South America. 2,039
684 Soursop Fruit Food The flesh of the food can be eaten raw. 1,973
685 Yautia Root Food The dried and peeled corm can be ground into a flour 2,379
686 Yautia Leaves and petioles Food Young leaves and petioles - cooked and eaten like spinach 2,379
687 Breadfruit Fruit Food Ripe Fruit are usually eaten fried or cooked. 1,978
688 Cassava Tuber Food Most cassava contain cianide. The cianide will gone when the tuber is cooked or boil for 15 minutes 1,978
689 Cempedak Fruit Food Ripe Fruit are usually eaten fresh or fried. 1,976
690 Chinese Chives Leaf Food Raw or cooked. A mild flavour, somewhat like a cross between garlic and chives. 2,078
691 Coconut Fruit Food High-grade oil is used for cooking or in the manufacture of margarine, shortening, filled milk, ice-cream and confectioneries. 2,429
692 Durian Fruit Food Fruit is usually eaten fresh but can also be eaten with rice or glutinous rice and coconut milk. It's pulp can be processed into durian flavors. 1,976
693 Green Spinach Whole Food The entire above-ground part of young plants or the tops of older plants are generally consumed after light cooking. 2,035