name: Lambsquarters

flavor_db_name_variants: lambsquarters

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Lambsquarters

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name_scientific: Chenopodium album

description: Chenopodium album is a fast-growing weedy annual plant in the genus Chenopodium. Though cultivated in some regions, the plant is elsewhere considered a weed. Common names include lamb's quarters, melde, goosefoot and fat-hen, though the latter two are also applied to other species of the genus Chenopodium, for which reason it is often distinguished as white goosefoot. It is sometimes also called pigweed, although that name is often also used for Amaranthus albus. Chenopodium album is extensively cultivated and consumed in Northern India as a food crop, and in English texts it may be called by its Hindi name bathua or bathuwa.

itis_id: 20592

wikipedia_id: Chenopodium album

picture_file_name: 399.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 71195

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:41:50.000Z

legacy_id: 426

food_group: Vegetables

food_subgroup: Leaf vegetables

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:39.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:05:24.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 3559

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00394