name: Burdock

flavor_db_name_variants: burdock

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Burdock

id: 17

name_scientific: Arctium lappa

description: Arctium lappa, commonly called greater burdock, gob?,edible burdock, lappa, or beggar's buttons, is a biennial plant of the Arctium (burdock) genus in the Asteraceae family, cultivated in gardens for its root used as a vegetable. It is an invasive weed of high-nitrogen soils. The root contains a fair amount of gobō dietary fiber (GDF, 6g per 100g), calcium, potassium, amino acids, and is low calorie. It contains polyphenols that causes darkened surface and muddy harshness by formation of tannin-iron complexes. Those polyphenols are caffeoylquinic acid derivatives. The root is very crisp and has a sweet, mild, and pungent flavor with a little muddy harshness that can be reduced by soaking julienned/shredded roots in water for five to ten minutes. The harshness shows excellent harmonization with pork in miso soup (tonjiru) and takikomi gohan (a Japanese-style pilaf).

itis_id: 36545

wikipedia_id: Arctium_lappa

picture_file_name: 17.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 127987

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:34:44.000Z

legacy_id: 17

food_group: Vegetables

food_subgroup: Root vegetables

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:15.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:13.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 4217

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00017