A magnificent Agave plant in a sea-front garden in Tenby is turning heads as its flower stalk grows taller by the day.

"There's also more fructose in agave than in other sugars and syrups," says Jill Weisenberger, MS, RDN, a Virginia-based registered dietician and author of "Prediabetes: A Complete Guide."She says ...

Craig Reynolds, the California Agave Council founding director who has about 500 plants growing, says the industry is in “an embryo stage” and organizing can help the crop expand. He runs California ...

The bloom also brings a little bit of sadness. Once the agave finish flowering, the plants will begin to shrivel and die—this colorful event marks the end of their decades-spanning lives. But Clark ...

The ancestor of tequila, mezcal — derived from the word mexicali, meaning ‘cooked agave’ in the ancient Nahuatl language — was born after the Spanish introduced distillation to Mexico.