Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (2019)

Post by fouc » Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 4:35 AM UTC

adrian_b wrote: post #49

vanderZwan wrote: post #43

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Do you have a source for that? Because while looking up this spinach thing I've come across half a dozen websites, most of them from health institutes that look fairly responsible, stating leafy greens do have calcium. Although in the case of spinach it's barely absorbed, apparently https://www.myfooddata.com/articles/high-calcium-vegetables....

Having much calcium among vegetables does not mean having enough calcium as a human food. Your link uses the silly "cup" unit of measure from which it is hard to assess which is the real calcium content. The right way to show the content of a nutrient in some food is to show how many kilograms or pounds you must eat daily to provide enough of that nutrient. In the case of calcium the best case that I have seen for va…

Post by efields » Mon, Jul 31, 2023, 8:11 PM UTC

NotYourLawyer wrote: post #65

efields wrote: post #64

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But first the crop needs a whole season in the sun. You grow normal green endive, pull the whole plant, chop the head, then you’re growing the second flush in the dark from the root mass. Effectively using all the stored energy from the root for one final round of leaf production, but no light prevents photosynthesis and you get Belgian endive.

Just like with rhubarb.

Post by Cushman » Sat, Aug 05, 2023, 2:02 PM UTC

adrian_b wrote: post #110

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I’m not vegan so it’s none of my business, but: Sure! if you’re not eating processed foods, and you don’t want to spend hours a day cooking, everyone needs supplements. Don’t forget that our salt and our flour and our milk and — “raw ingredients” — are supplemented by default with micros the standard diet is deficient in. If the standard diet was vegan, there’d be taurine in the lentils and we’d be saying a meat-and-…

Which kinds of food are supplemented by default varies from country to country. While table salt is supplemented by default with iodine almost everywhere, flour and milk are supplemented by default only in a few countries and I consider that this is a very good thing and that they should not have been supplemented by default anywhere. This forced supplementation is stupid, because it will not achieve an appropriate d…