Botanical Name: Origanum vulgare
Other Names: Ajma, Mountain Mint, Origanum, Wild Marjoram, Winter Marjoram

Oregano is an important culinary herb. It is particularly widely used in Greek and Italian cuisines. It is the leaves that are used in cooking, and the dried herb is often more flavourful than the fresh.

Botanical Name: Carica papaya
Other Names: Papaw, Pawpaw, Papaia, Mamão, Papaye, Lechosa

Ripe papayas are most commonly eaten fresh, merely peeled, seeded and cut into wedges. Papaya juice and nectar may be prepared from peeled or unpeeled fruit and are sold fresh in bottles or canned. Raw green papaya is frequently used in Thai and Vietnamese cooking but it is usually cooked first.

Botanical Name: Passiflora edulis
Other Names: Granadilla, Parcha, Lilikoi, Matunga, Passionsblomma, Passiflore

The fruit is cut in half and the pulp eaten with a spoon or scooped out and mixed in salads and desserts. Passionfruit juice is also very popular.

Botanical Name: Arachis hypogaea
Other Names: Earthnut, Monkey nut, Manila nut, Cacahuète, Pinda, Erdnuß, Arachide, Amendoim, Maní, Jordnöt

The principal uses are salted, shelled nuts, peanut butter, peanut brittle, candy bars, and nuts that have been roasted in the shell. Salted peanuts are usually roasted in oil and packed in retail size, plastic bags or hermetically sealed cans. Dry roasted, salted peanuts are also marketed in significant quantities. The primary use of peanut butter is in the home, but large quantities are also used in the commercial manufacture of sandwiches, candy, and bakery products. Boiled peanuts are a preparation of raw, unshelled green peanuts typically eaten as a snack. Peanut oil is often used in cooking, because it has a mild flavour and burns at a relatively high temperature.Peanuts have a variety of industrial end uses. Paint, varnish, lubricating oil, leather dressings, furniture polish, insecticides, and nitroglycerin are made from peanut oil. Soap is made from saponified oil, and many cosmetics contain peanut oil and its derivatives. The protein portion of the oil is used in the manufacture of some textile fibers. Peanut shells are put to use in the manufacture of plastic, wallboard, abrasives, and fuel. They are also used to make cellulose (used in rayon and paper) and mucilage (glue). Peanut plant tops are used to make hay. The protein cake (oilcake meal) residue from oil processing is utilized as an animal feed and as a soil fertilizer.

Botanical Name: Carya illinoinensis
Other Names: Faux hickory, Illinois nut

The nuts of the Pecan are edible, with a rich, buttery flavour. They can be eaten fresh or used in cooking, particularly in sweet desserts but also in some savory dishes. One of the most common desserts with the pecan as a central ingredient is the pecan pie.In addition to the pecan nut, the wood of the pecan tree is also used in making furniture, in hardwood flooring, as well as flavouring fuel for smoking meats.

Botanical Name: Piper nigram
Other Names: Black pepper, Green pepper, White pepper, Mehri, Pippali, Piper, Poivre, Pfeffer, Peper, Pepe

Pepper is one of the most widely traded spice in the world and has been used as flavouring in cooking for thousands of years. Pepper gets its hot flavour from the chemical compound peperine which is found in both the outer fruit and the seed itself. Pepper can lose its flavour when exposed to air and light so it should be stored in non-transparent airtight containers. Pepper is also used in Aruvedic medicine.