There is a lot of research done on the topic. A fun exercise is to enter a random vegetable or spice into the search box at pubmed. It's amazing how often you

There is a lot of research done on the topic. A fun exercise is to enter a random vegetable or spice into the search box at pubmed. It's amazing how often you'll find something like cinnamon or beets in trials for the treatment of some disease or another. Sometimes I feel like literally every plant we eat has medicinal properties. ("Okay, now do bananas... no way, bananas???")