Swiss Chard

Categories: Food | Vegetables
    • Also called: Chard, silverbeet, perpetual spinach, mangold
    • A member of the beet family
    • Both leaves and stalks are edible
    • 7 calories per cup
    • Good source of calcium
    • Stalks can be red, yellow, or white
    • Tolerates a mild frost
    • 1 bunch = 3/4 lbs
    • Use leaves raw or cooked
    • Is not Swiss
    • Origin: Italy
  • Swiss Chard is a vitamin rich and nutritious leafy green vegetable.

    Swiss chard is of the same species as the garden beet, and a descendant of the sea beat. It is cultivated for its green leaves that have a striking resembelance to the leaves of beets.

  • Chard Scientific classification

    1. Kingdom: Plantae
    2. Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
    3. Superdivision: Spermatophyta
    4. Division: Magnoliophyta
    5. Class: Magnoliopsida
    6. Subclass: Caryophyllidae
    7. Order: Caryophyllales
    8. Family: Amaranthaceae
    9. Genus: Beta
    10. Species: Beta vulgaris

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