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| The Health Benefits of Asparagus |
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 Asparagus originates from The Mediterranean, and the Southern and Northern areas of Africa, with Egypt possibly being the first to cultivate asparagus, where it was valued for it’s medicinal properties. Roman emperors kept an “Asparagus Fleet” of boats for collecting this prized delicacy. Asparagus and smelly pee was first researched in 1820, and the French novelist Marcel Prost famously remarked that asparagus "transforms my chamber-pot into a flask of perfume". Today China is the world’s largest producer of asparagus, with Peru, United States, Mexico and Mediterranean countries being the other main producers. Health Benefits of Asparagus
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