Fennel The inflated leaf bases are eaten as a vegetable, both raw and cooked. Several cultivars of Florence fennel are also known by several other names, notably the Italian name "finocchio". In North American supermarkets, it is often mislabeled as "anise". "Foeniculum vulgare" 'Purpureum' or 'Nigra', "bronze-leaved" fennel, is widely available as a decorative garden plant. Fennel has become naturalized along roadsides, in pastures, and in other open sites in many regions, including northern Europe, the United States, southern Canada, and much of Asia and Australia. It propagates well by seed, and is considered an invasive species and a weed in
Flavour and Fragrance Journal Flavour and Fragrance Journal The Flavour and Fragrance Journal is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 1985 by John Wiley & Sons. It publishes original research articles, reviews and special reports on all aspects of flavour and fragrance. The current Editor-in-Chief is Alain Chaintreau (Firmenich, Switzerland). "Flavour and Fragrance Journal" is indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 2014 impact factor of 1.97, ranking it 22nd out of 70 journals in the category "Applied Chemistry" and 36th out of 123 in the category "Food Science and Technology. The most-cited articles published in the "