Native to Eastern Asia, this radish is especially popular in Japanese cuisine and used both raw, in salads, or cooked. Daikon from the Japanese "big root," looks like a white giant carrot. This vegetable with a spicy flavor, has diuretic properties and it is a great fat burning and draining of the liver. It contains 15 calories in 100 grams, many vitamin C and sulforaphane, which has an anti-bacterial and anti-edema action.