name: Water Spinach

flavor_db_name_variants: water spinach

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Water spinach

id: 977

name_scientific: Ipomoea aquatica

description: Ipomoea aquatica is a semi-aquatic, tropical plant grown as a vegetable for its tender shoots and it is not known where it originated. This plant is known in English as water spinach, river spinach, water morning glory, water convolvulus, or by the more ambiguous names Chinese spinach, Chinese Watercress, Chinese convolvulus, swamp cabbage or kangkong in Southeast Asia.

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wikipedia_id: null

picture_file_name: Water_spinach.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 129825

picture_updated_at: 2020-04-17T16:23:30.000Z

legacy_id: null

food_group: Vegetables

food_subgroup: Leaf vegetables

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2020-01-24T17:05:37.000Z

updated_at: 2020-04-17T16:23:31.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: null

ncbi_taxonomy_id: null

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00977