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This is a list of cabbage dishes and foods. Cabbage ( Brassica oleracea or variants) is a leafy green or purple biennial plant , grown as an annual vegetable crop for its dense-leaved heads. Cabbage heads generally range from 0.5 to 4 kilograms (1 to 9 lb), and can be green, purple and white.
Wild Cabbage [36] Brassica oleracea var. acephala: Kale: Kale is a type of cabbage that has flat or curly leaves and stem colors ranging from dark green to burgundy. Kale contains many nutrients including calcium, iron, and vitamins A, C, and K. Young leaves can be harvested to use fresh in salads or allowed to mature and used as a cooked green.
"Cabbage" was originally used to refer to multiple forms of B. oleracea, including those with loose or non-existent heads. [20] A related species, Brassica rapa, is commonly named Chinese, napa or celery cabbage, and has many of the same uses. [21] It is also a part of common names for several unrelated species.
This is a list of plants that have a culinary role as vegetables. "Vegetable" can be used in several senses, including culinary, botanical and legal. This list includes botanical fruits such as pumpkins, and does not include herbs, spices, cereals and most culinary fruits and culinary nuts. Edible fungi are not included in this list.
This category holds dishes in which the main or essential ingredient is a leaf vegetable cultivar of Brassica which in the English-speaking world would be culinarily classified as cabbage, including dishes made with the Napa cabbage cultivar of Brassica rapa subsp. pekinensis.
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Non-starchy vegetables are vegetables that contain a lower proportion of carbohydrates and calories compared to their starchy counterparts. Thus, for the same calories, one can eat a larger quantity of non-starchy vegetables compared to smaller servings of starchy vegetables.
The acephala group refers to any type of Brassica which grows without the central 'head' typical of many varieties of cabbage. These are included within the species Brassica oleracea, such as kale (Brassica oleracea var. acephala). [1] The name literally means "without a head" in contrast to those varieties known as capitata or "with a head ...