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.
itis_id: null
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
creator_id: null
updater_id: null
export_to_afcdb: false
category: null
ncbi_taxonomy_id: null
export_to_foodb: true
public_id: FOOD00977