Carrots

Stigan Antioxidant, Early To Mid Summer, Superfood, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Chicken soup just wouldn’t be the same without them – adding great flavour to the cure-all soup. Interestingly, carrots’ crunchy texture and sweet taste grows underground as a richly coloured orange root. It’s the feathery green leaves that … Read More

Onions – Green Scallions

Stigan Antioxidant, Early To Mid Summer, Glycemic Index, Superfood, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Scallion and Green Onion (even Spring Onion) are interchangeable terms. This vegetable is a prematurely harvested onion, before the bulb has developed. This young onion has a white base, not developed into a bulb yet, and long, straight, … Read More

Peppers – Sweet Bell

Stigan Antioxidant, Glycemic Index, Spring, Superfood, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Whether you call them ‘sweet peppers’ or ‘bell peppers,’ their bell-shaped glossy exterior comes in a wide array of stunning colours, holding a crunchy, sweet taste to make mouths water. Sweet peppers -are botanically related to hot chile … Read More

Cucumbers

Stigan Glycemic Index, Spring, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Inside a cucumber is a very pale green flesh that is both moist and crunchy, with edible fleshy seeds. Varieties that are to be eaten fresh are known as ‘slicing cucumbers’. Gherkins cucumbers, usually much smaller than slicing … Read More

Tomatoes

Stigan Antioxidant, Glycemic Index, Mid To Late Summer, Spring, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  By themselves or combined with other foods, tomatoes are delicious! In plant families, the deep, rich red coloured tomato is categorized as a berry fruit. Of course, we who eat them consider tomatoes to be a vegetable. Raw … Read More

Spinach

Stigan Antioxidant, Glycemic Index, Spring, Superfood, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Popeye popularized spinach, but it’s too bad he didn’t eat it fresh! Spinach can have either small, smooth, flat leaves or slightly crinkled broad leaves. Tender, sweet crisp leaves with solid jade green colouring that cook quickly. Raw … Read More

Radishes

Stigan Antioxidant, Glycemic Index, Spring, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Did you ever raid your grandma’s garden for this colourful, snack-sized treat? The garden variety, also known as ‘Red Globe,’ produces tiny scarlet rounds or ovals are firm with juicy white flesh that provides a mild peppery taste, … Read More

Green Beans

Stigan Antioxidant, Glycemic Index, Mid To Late Summer, Spring, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  Green Beans are a long and slender vegetable with green pods. Harvested while still immature and the inner bean is just beginning to form, they are one of only a few varieties of beans that are eaten fresh … Read More

Asparagus

Stigan Antioxidant, Glycemic Index, Spring, Vegetable

Note: Availability fluctuates throughout the year, please understand the described items below are educational. To confirm availability please inquire with us directly.  A few spears of asparagus on a plate and you’re bound to make Tuesday night’s dinner feel a bit more classy! This vegetable with long, tender shoots is a member of the lily family. Asparagus have tiny leaves … Read More