Basil

Native to Iran and India, basil is a herb growing in a tropical, humid, climate. It grows 30- 130cm tall, and small flowers and leaves. Basil is sold by seeds or leaves to be used to cook, to make drinks, and put in baths for cosmetics. Fresh basil taste pungent and strong, while dry basil taste like hay. Most of basil contains a chemical called eugenol, which gives basil its smell. It is rich in vitamin K, A, and iron. If taken often, it may even reduce to risk of cancer. Overall, basil is a healthy, good tasting, herb.

Chicken

Chicken is a domesticated fowl that originated from southeast Asia. It is a descendant of the wild red jungle fowl, until it was domesticated. Now, it has become an extremely popular food, due to the high population of chicken around the world. You must have heard the phrase, 'tastes like chicken,' meaning chicken is extremely well- known around the world. People eat chicken burgers, chicken fajitas, chicken fingers, and just plain chicken. Chicken eggs are also edible and rich in Omega 3. Chicken itself has a lot of vitamin B3, and is only around 240 calories! Depending on how you cook it, there is a chance that you can increase the amount of calories. KFC for example, cooks it with lots of oil, which blows the calories off the scale! Since chicken is so popular, Colonel Sanders decided to fry it. Therefore, we have Kentucky Fried Chicken, or KFC. Chicken is the most important ingredient in KFC Chicken.

Thyme

Thyme is a herb first used by the Greek in baths and incense, and Egyptians used it for embalming. The herb is cultivated and it is sold in sprigs. A sprig is a single stem snipped from the plant. It has a strong flavor, due to the amount of thymol in it. Thymol is used in cigarettes, to treat fungal spores, and also used in embalming. Thyme is usually used to flavor meats, soups, and stews. Apparently, it is a primary flavor with lamb. Thyme is also in Listerine mouthwash because it contains thymol. Tea with thyme is given to treat coughs. For other respiratory diseases, thyme is taken by steam inhalation. Luckily for KFC, it is an extremely healthy herb, rich in vitamin K and iron. Here is a picture of thymol.

Paprika

Paprika is a spice in Central and South America. It consists of dry red and green bell peppers grinded together to form a powder. It is used to add color and flavor to a dish, similar to MSG. It was only grown in Europe when Christopher Columbus brought some back from the Americas. It is used to season and colour rices, stews, soup, and to flavor sausages. The countries that produce the most paprika are India, China, Bangledesh, and Peru. The redder the paprika, the more hotter it taste. There are 8 types of paprika; Special Quality, Delicate, Exquisite, Pungent, Rose, Noble Sweet, Half- Sweet, and Hot. Each type has its own paticular taste and KFC Chicken most likely uses Rose paprika because it has a strong aroma and it does not taste hot. Paprika is high in vitamin C, but high heats, like frying, leaches the vitamin from the paprika. Since KFC puts all its chicken in high heat areas, most of the vitamins disappear from the chicken, making paprika neither a healthy nor unhealthy.