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Everyone should eat cruciferous vegetables regardless. If you think you don't like them, you might want to try some alternate preparations. Interestingly, a la
by manicennui 3y ago
Everyone should eat cruciferous vegetables regardless. If you think you don't like them, you might want to try some alternate preparations.
Interestingly, a large number of cruciferous vegetables are the same plant.
"Brassica oleracea is a plant species from family Brassicaceae that includes many common cultivars used as vegetables, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan."
- wellanyway 3y agoI never understood what makes a cultivar different from a species.
- lbotos 3y agoMy understanding is that species delineates “breeding boundary lines” and cultivar are “pushed gene expressions”. Take freshwater hobby shrimp. You can relatively quickly breed them to express certain colors (cultivar) but without some gene editing you can’t cross breed caridinia and neocaridinia (species). And if you mix up the pushed color cultivars in a few generations they are very close to “wild type” again.
- NikkiA 3y agoSuch a shame that many cannot eat a lot of those plants because of their vitamin K content.
- november84 3y agoWould you mind expanding on that a bit? Is the vitamin k too high? Some quick googling leads me down a kidney disease rabbit hole...which may not fully align with your statement.
- NikkiA 3y agoVitamin K cancels the effect of warfarin, which is the main blood thinner older people tend to get put on for various reasons. So eating vitamin-K rich foods ends up allowing blood clots to form
- fuzzfactor 3y ago>cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan Ah, the gag me group. I naturally find the smell of these cooking in the kitchen more repulsive than pure benzene in the lab. I prefer a bit of prepared mustard myself.