Category vegetable

Generality Black cabbage is an edible herbaceous plant belonging to the Brassicaceae family, identified by the trinomial nomenclature Brassica oleracea acephala L., variety palmifolia . In the Anglo-Saxon language, this cultivar is identified as black cabbage, tuscan cabbage, tuscan kale, lacinatom, dinosaur kale or black cabbage

What is kale? Curly kale (in English " curly cale ") is the name of a particular cultivar of cabbage called sabellica ( Brassica oleracea var. Sabellica) . Also known as leached cabbage and, perhaps improperly, as kinky black cabbage , this variety is obtained only by cultivation and is not available in the wild

Generality Red cabbage (or red cabbage) means a food of vegetable origin, obtained from an edible plant belonging to the Brassicaceae family. Closely related to cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli and turnip greens (but not only), the red cabbage plant is identified by the binomial nomenclature Brassica oleracea , cultivated capitata f

Generality The cabbage and the cabbage are two subspecies of the well-known Brassica oleracea L. , a plant belonging to the Brassicaceae family; in botany, the cabbage is known as " capitata ", while the cabbage is called " sabauda ". The cabbage has smooth and falling leaves, easily reaches 50cm in height and the edible part is made up of the central shoot which, as outside, can be green or red (depending on the quality); both types of cabbage (green or red) boast the same botanical, chemical-nutritional (except pigment content) and cultivation characteristics

Generality The generic term chicory identifies a group of herbaceous plants belonging to the Asteraceae family and to the Genus Cichorium . In common language, the species that is usually associated with the term "chicory" is Cichorium intybus L., better known as catalonia or common chicory; however, this is certainly not the only species of the genus Cichorium exploited in human nutrition (for example, we think of C

Generality Turnip greens are foods of the vegetable kingdom. These are vegetables (leaves and flowers) that fall within the VI and VII group of foods, as they are rich in vitamin C and vitamin A, as well as fiber and folate. Turnip greens are NOT turnip leaves! To be honest, the food also includes certain leaves, but the portion of greatest value is constituted by the stems and flowers still well closed (broccoli or friarielli)

Generality Sauerkraut (or rather, Sauerkraut ) is a food obtained by salting and lactic fermentation of raw cabbage (Brassicaceae family, Brassica genus, L oleracea species, capitate subspecies and Filderkraut Spezialzucht variety - early white). Sauerkraut is a conservative process, similar to yogurt, necessary to ensure the availability of cabbage even after a long time from the harvest of the vegetable

What's this What is wild chicory? Wild chicory or common chicory is an edible herbaceous plant very widespread and used throughout the Italian territory. Typically bitter in taste, it is highly appreciated as a field herb or cooked herb, especially in the culinary tradition of central Italy - where it is often mixed with other edible herbs - dandelion, watercress, spinach, chard or chard etc

The article that follows is aimed at describing watercress, a plant with marked aromatic characteristics. In Italy, with the term crescione (in addition to the famous Romagna gastronomic preparation, which has nothing to do with what will follow) we indicate TWO types of herbaceous: the garden cress (in English garden cress ); the water cress ( rorippa or schino )

What's this What is the dandelion? Dandelion - in English, "common dandelion" - is the common name of the dandelion ( T. officinale ), a spontaneous grassy plant of the Composite or Asteraceae Family. Dandelion is used for both food and herbal purposes; from the nutritional point of view, it is framed in the VI and VII fundamental group of foods, with particular relevance to the latter - given the very high concentration of retinol equivalents (RAE - provitamine A)