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Broccoli is a plant of the Cabbage family, Brassicaceae (formerly Cruciferae). It is classified as the Italica Cultivar Group of the species Brassica oleracea. Broccoli possesses abundant fleshy green flower heads arranged in a tree-like fashion on branches sprouting from a thick, edible stalk. The large mass of flower heads is surrounded by leaves. Broccoli most closely resembles its close relative cauliflower, but is green rather than white. Common varieties are Calabrese and purple sprouting broccoli. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1600x1067, 460 KB) Bunches of broccoli as ready for cooking File links The following pages link to this file: Broccoli ...
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Binomial name Brassica oleracea L. See also cabbage Brassica oleracea or Wild Cabbage, is a species of Brassica native to coastal southern and western Europe, where its resistance to salt and lime but intolerance of competition from other plants typically restricts its natural occurrence to limestone sea cliffs. ...
This Osteospermum Pink Whirls is a successful cultivar. ...
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Binomial name Brassica oleracea L. See also cabbage Brassica oleracea or Wild Cabbage, is a species of Brassica native to coastal southern and western Europe, where its resistance to salt and lime but intolerance of competition from other plants typically restricts its natural occurrence to limestone sea cliffs. ...
Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ...
Cultivation, preparation and nutritional value
 Test plot-grown broccoli near Salinas, California, USA. Broccoli is a cool-weather crop that does poorly in hot summer weather. Other cultivar groups of Brassica oleracea include: cabbage (Capitata Group), cauliflower (Botrytis Group), kale and collard greens (Acephala Group), kohlrabi (Gongylodes Group), and Brussels sprouts (Gemmifera Group). Chinese broccoli (Alboglabra Group) is also a cultivar group of Brassica oleracea. Download high resolution version (500x747, 87 KB)Image Number K7429-11 The interagency IR-4 program ensures the safety of so-called minor-use chemicals before they are approved for commercial agricultural production. ...
Download high resolution version (500x747, 87 KB)Image Number K7429-11 The interagency IR-4 program ensures the safety of so-called minor-use chemicals before they are approved for commercial agricultural production. ...
Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ...
Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ...
Kale (also called Borecole) is a form of cabbage (Brassica oleracea Acephala Group), green in color, in which the central leaves do not form a head. ...
Collards, also called collard greens or borekale (Brassica oleracea Acephala Group), are various loose-leafed cultivars of the cabbage plant. ...
Kohlrabi (Brassica oleracea Gongylodes Group) is a low, stout cultivar of the cabbage which has been selected for its swollen, nearly spherical, Sputnik-like shape. ...
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Cultivar Group Brassica oleracea Alboglabra Group Kai-lan (Chinese 芥蘭 trad. ...
It is usually boiled or steamed, but may be eaten raw and has become popular as a raw vegetable in hors-d'oeuvre trays. It is high in vitamin C and soluble fiber and contains the compound glucoraphanin, leading to an anticancer compound sulforaphane. Lactose is a disaccharide found in milk. ...
Dietary fibers are the indigestible portion of plant foods that move food through the digestive system, absorbing water. ...
In chemistry, especially biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid often with a long unbranched aliphatic tail (chain), which is either saturated or unsaturated. ...
A representation of the 3D structure of myoglobin, showing coloured alpha helices. ...
Thiamine mononitrate Thiamine or thiamin, also known as vitamin B1, is a colorless compound with chemical formula C12H17ClN4OS. It is soluble in water and insoluble in alcohol. ...
Riboflavin (E101), also known as vitamin B2, is an easily absorbed micronutrient with a key role in maintaining health in animals. ...
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Pantothenic acid, also called vitamin B5, is a water-soluble vitamin required to sustain life. ...
Pyridoxine Vitamin B6 pyridoxine is a water-soluble vitamin. ...
Folic acid (the anion form is called folate) is a B-complex vitamin (once called vitamin M) that is important in preventing neural tube defects (NTDs) in the developing human fetus. ...
Vitamin C is a nutrient required in very small amounts to allow a range of essential metabolic reactions in the body. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number calcium, Ca, 20 Chemical series alkaline earth metals Group, Period, Block 2, 4, s Appearance silvery white Atomic mass 40. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ...
Introduction Magnesium is an essential element in biological systems. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number phosphorus, P, 15 Chemical series nonmetals Group, Period, Block 15, 3, p Appearance waxy white/ red/ black/ colorless Atomic mass 30. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number potassium, K, 19 Chemical series alkali metals Group, Period, Block 1, 4, s Appearance silvery white Atomic mass 39. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number zinc, Zn, 30 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 12, 4, d Appearance bluish pale gray Atomic mass 65. ...
Reference Daily Intake (RDI) is the daily dietary intake level of a nutrient considered sufficient to meet the requirements of nearly all (97–98%) healthy individuals in each life-stage and gender group. ...
Hors dœuvre (or alternatively appetizer or starter) refer to the food served before or outside of (French: hors) the main dishes of a meal (the œuvre). ...
Vitamin C is a nutrient required in very small amounts to allow a range of essential metabolic reactions in the body. ...
Dietary fibers are the indigestible portion of plant foods that move food through the digestive system, absorbing water. ...
Sulforaphane is an anticancer compound found in broccoli. ...
History of broccoli Roman references to a cabbage-family vegetable that may have been broccoli are less than perfectly clear: the Roman natural history writer, Pliny the Elder, wrote about a vegetable that fit the description of broccoli. Some vegetable scholars recognize broccoli in the cookbook of Apicius. Area under Roman control Roman Republic Roman Empire Western Empire Eastern Empire Ancient Rome was a civilization that grew from a city-state founded on the Italian Peninsula circa the 9th century BC to a massive empire straddling the Mediterranean Sea. ...
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Apicius was a name applied to three celebrated Roman epicures, the first of whom lived during the Republic; the second of whom, Marcus Gavius (or Gabius) Apicius—the most famous in his own time—lived under the early Empire; a third lived in the late 4th or early 5th century. ...
Broccoli was an Italian vegetable, as its name suggests, long before it was eaten elsewhere. It is first mentioned in France in 1560, but in 1724 broccoli was still so unfamiliar in England that Philip Miller's Gardener's Dictionary (1724 edition) referred to it as a stranger in England and explained it as "sprout colli-flower" or "Italian asparagus". In the American colonies, Thomas Jefferson was also an experimentative gardener with a wide circle of European correspondents, from whom he got packets of seeds for rare vegetables such as tomatoes. He noted the planting of broccoli at Monticello along with radishes, lettuce, and cauliflower on May 27, 1767. Nevertheless, broccoli remained an exotic in American gardens. In 1775, John Randolph, in A Treatise on Gardening by a Citizen of Virginia, felt he had to explain about broccoli: "The stems will eat like Asparagus, and the heads like Cauliflower." Events February 27 - The Treaty of Berwick, which would expel the French from Scotland, is signed by England and the Congregation of Scotland The first tulip bulb was brought from Turkey to the Netherlands. ...
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Philip Miller (1691 - 1771) was a botanist of Scottish descent. ...
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Thomas Jeffersons Monticello Monticello, located near Charlottesville, Virginia, was the estate of Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence, the third President of the United States, and founder of the University of Virginia. ...
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Binomial name Asparagus officinalis L. Asparagus is a type of vegetable obtained from one species within the genus Asparagus, specifically the young shoots of Asparagus officinalis. ...
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Commercial cultivation of broccoli in the United States can be traced to the D'Arrigo brothers, Stephano and Andrea, immigrants from Messina, Italy, whose company made some tentative plantings in San Jose, California in 1922. A few crates were initially shipped to Boston, where there was a thriving Italian immigrant culture in the North End. The broccoli business boomed, with the D'Arrigo's brand name "Andy Boy" named after Stephano's two-year-old son, Andrew, and backed with advertisements on the radio. Location within Italy Messina with a population of about 260,000 is the third largest city on the island of Sicily, Italy and the capital of the province of Messina. ...
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A genetically engineered cross between broccoli and cauliflower, the brocciflower, was first cultivated in Europe around 1988. Its very pale green heads are densely packed like cauliflower but has the flavour of broccoli. Genetic engineering, genetic modification (GM), and gene splicing (once in widespread use but now deprecated) are terms for the process of manipulating genes in an organism, usually outside of the organisms normal reproductive process. ...
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The word broccoli comes from the Latin brachium and Italian braccio meaning "arm." Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ...
Broccoli in popular cultures - Broccoli is frequently referred to in popular culture as a vegetable that parents try to force their unwilling children to eat.
- In The Simpsons episode Treehouse of Horror XI, Homer is killed by eating broccoli. When examining the body, Dr. Hibbert said that broccoli was one of the deadliest plants, and it warned people with its bad taste.
- United States President George H. W. Bush was known to have an active disdain for broccoli, having actually said so in an offhand remark during his presidency.[1] In response, a powerful broccoli agriculture lobby sent several tons of it to the White House. This broccoli was promptly donated to the Capital Area Food Bank.[2]
- In the TV sitcom Seinfeld, Newman refers to broccoli as a "Vile weed!".
- In Michael Winterbottom's 2002 film 24 Hour Party People, a stoned Tony Wilson repeatedly claims that the vegetable was 'invented' by Cubby Broccoli.
- In 1928, when broccoli was still something of a novelty in the United States, a cartoon[3] appeared in the New Yorker magazine, drawn by Carl Rose with a caption by E.B. White. A mother and child are seated at the table, and the mother says "It's broccoli, dear." The child replies "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."
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George Herbert Walker Bush GCB (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States of America serving from 1989 to 1993. ...
Lobbying is the practice of private advocacy with the goal of influencing a governing body, in order to ensure that an individuals or organizations point of view is represented in the government. ...
The Capital Area Food Bank is the largest non-profit food bank in the Washington, D.C. area and a member of Americas Second Harvest. ...
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24 Hour Party People is a 2002 film about Manchesters popular music community from 1977 to 1997, and specifically about Factory Records. ...
A Cannabis sativa plant The drug cannabis, also called marijuana, is produced from parts of the cannabis plant, primarily the cured flowers and gathered trichomes of the female plant. ...
Tony Wilson presents So It Goes in 1976 Anthony (Tony) Howard Wilson is an English record label owner, radio presenter, TV show host, nightclub manager, impresario and journalist for Granada Television and the BBC. // Wilson was (born February 20, 1950, in Salford, Greater Manchester. ...
Albert Romolo Broccoli (April 5, 1909–June 27, 1996) known to millions of movie fans as Cubby Broccoli (a nickname used by a cousin), produced more than forty movies, but will be remembered by most for his contribution to one of the most successful film franchises in history, James Bond. ...
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Carl Rose is a cartoonist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Popular Science, The Saturday Evening Post, and elsewhere. ...
Elwyn Brooks White (July 11, 1899–October 1, 1985) was an American essayist, author, and noted prose stylist. ...
Gallery Extreme close-up of broccoli florets. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (3214x700, 649 KB) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Broccoli Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from the digital camera or scanner used to create...
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Romanesco Broccoli, showing fractal forms Romanesco broccoli or fractal broccoli is a vegetable member of the Brassica oleracea L. species. ...
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