We eat the fruits, the leaves, the roots, and even the bark of many plants and trees. But why leave the flowers? Here’s a list of flowers you can eat and use in recipes big or small.

Squash blossoms are flowers of squash that are still growing. They spoil easily and are difficult to find fresh or at all, depending on where you live.

Although the peak winter months have passed, the wafting scent of warm soup from the slow cooker never goes out of style. The slow-cooking “Crock-Pot” (as it is often called for the original brand name) was invented in 1940, gained popularity in the 1970s, and has especially gained favoritism in the past two decades.

I recently decided to have a food sensitivities test done in order to identify any specific foods that might be triggering responses in me.  I worked with an FDN-P nutritionist to order the test and then discuss the results.  This article is the first in a series that discusses that process.

Fiddleheads are a growth stage in the life cycle of the fern that is a member of the family Dryopteridaceae, commonly known as the Wood Fern family of the genus Matteuccia Todaro or ostrich fern P. whose species name is Matteuccia struthiopteris (L.) Todaro. Though several immature fern fronds are eaten, the oyster and cinnamon ferns are the only ones that are definitely edible.

Most of us tend to think that the healthiest people amongst us are those who dutifully go to the gym six days a week, work up a sweat on the bike or the treadmill, lift weights to preserve bone mass, stretch out in a yoga class, and then go home after the hour is up. While the gym-goers are probably healthier than the majority of the U.S. population, even they aren’t ideal. Why not?

When we’re growing up, we always hear that we should eat our vegetables. Our parents drilled this habit into us, and now that we’re grown up, the choice is ours—do we still eat them? If so, why do we eat them, and which ones do we focus on?

St. Patrick’s Day isn’t conducive to health or fitness, or so it might seem. But there are ways to make your shamrock day greener—think food dye-free, vegetable-heavy, and environmentally friendly. Here are 10 ways to make your St. Patty’s Day natural.

1. Buy organic