Fennel is a delicious vegetable that tastes like anise. The fennel is a white vegetable with green shoots that you can also eat. The bottom of the fennel is called a fennel bulb. Fennel is used as a vegetable and as a herb. Fennel powder can be used in horse stables and dog shelters to combat fleas. Fennel powder is a natural anti-flea agent. These jumping pests do not like the fresh fennel aroma. NB! This article is written from the personal view of the author and may contain information that is not scientifically substantiated and/or in line with the general view.

Contents:

• Fennel and the marathon
• Fennel against eye diseases
• Fennel against digestive problems
• Anethole in fennel
• Fennel for a fresh mouth
• Eating tips fennel (cold)
• Eating tips fennel (warm)

Fennel and the marathon

Fennel was known in ancient Greece as marathon. This was because fennel grew around the town of Marathon in a field where the ‘battle of Marathon’ against the Persians was fought. The Persians lost 6,700 men in that battle and the Greeks only 192. During that battle, Marathon became the name of a major running race over 42 kilometers and 195 meters, the exact distance from Marathon to Athens, the capital of Greece. The runner who completed the first marathon, to deliver the message that the Persians were at Sparta, carried fennel.

Fennel against eye diseases

The fennel bulb has been used as a medicine since ancient times. Both in ancient Indian history and later by the ancient Romans, fennel has been described as a medicine for eye diseases. One is said to see sharper after regularly eating fennel root and fennel seeds. Contemporary scientific research has been able to confirm this because glaucoma in animals has decreased by eating fennel.Source: Otto Wilhelm Thomé, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Fennel against digestive problems

Fennel works well against flatulence. The ancient Romans already knew this. There is a Latin saying ‘semen foeniculi pellit spiracula culi’. This means ‘Fennel seeds make the anus blow’. In general, fennel soothes the intestines. You can use fennel tea for this purpose. drink or eat fennel as a vegetable. It is also possible to make fennel syrup from the seeds.

Anethole in fennel

Fennel contains anethole, which is a phytoestrogen. This bioidentical hormone stimulates the production of breast milk and the production of breast tissue in women. By the way, the production of breast tissue has nothing to do with the production of milk. Anethole has more medicinal properties. It combats the presence of cancerous tumors, at least as research on animals shows. Scientists think this is because anethole prevents the activation of the inflammatory molecule NF-kappaB. In addition, anethole can help the liver if this organ is working overtime because it is overloaded with toxins. In any case, this is evident from research on laboratory animals.Source: Wouter Hagens, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Fennel for a fresh mouth

Fennel has a fresh taste. Fennel essential oils are used worldwide to make natural mouth fresheners and to enrich toothpastes. Fennel tea is an ideal mouth-freshening tea. You can also chew a fennel seed to get a fresh mouth. In countries such as India, it is customary to chew fennel seeds, anise seeds or cumin seeds after eating to get a fresh mouth.

Eating tips fennel (cold)

Fennel can be drunk as fennel tea, which is available in a health food store. Fennel can be eaten raw. It is delicious if you cut it into small cubes and add it to a mixed salad. The green pieces are tastier in a salad than the white ones. Try putting some green fennel shoots on your healthy sandwich. Due to its soft aniseed flavor, fennel is an ideal vegetable to introduce children to eating fresh vegetables.Source: Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler’s Medizinal Pflanzen, Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Eating tips fennel (warm)

Fennel is an easy vegetable to cook. Like any vegetable that you can eat raw, you don’t need to cook fennel for long to get it done. 3 to 5 minutes of cooking is enough for a nice side dish: boiled fennel. You can use the cooking water as a basis for a homemade herbal tea. You can put the green shoots in yogurt together with mint and honey to give it extra flavor. You can also stir-fry fennel in a vegetable mix. It is a versatile vegetable that can add a fresh touch to any dish.

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