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a tiny tree humans invented, then taught children to fear.
means A green vegetable in the cabbage family, grown for its dense clusters of edible flower buds and thick stalk.
from From the Italian 'broccoli,' the plural of 'broccolo,' meaning a flowering crest or little sprout — itself a diminutive of 'brocco,' a shoot or stalk. That 'brocco' traces back to the Latin 'brocchus,' meaning projecting or jutting (the same sense that gives us 'broach' and 'brooch'). So the name is literally 'little sprouts,' and the plural form stuck so hard in English that we now rarely think of a single 'broccolo' at all.
- human-made
- Bred from wild cabbage over 2,000 years ago
- taste gene
- Some people genetically taste it as bitter
- name origin
- Italian for the little arm or shoot
- vitamin c
- Gram for gram, beats oranges
calabrese broccoli — the most common variety grown commercially, originating from calabria, italy in the 1600s
sprouting broccoli — smaller florets with thin stalks, traditional british variety with purple and green forms
romanesco broccoli — fractal spiraled variety from rome with yellow-green color and nutty flavor