name: Chicory Roots

flavor_db_name_variants: chicory roots

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Chicory roots

id: 254

name_scientific: Cichorium intybus var. sativum

description: Root chicory (Cichorium intybus var. sativum) has been cultivated in Europe as a coffee substitute. The roots are baked, ground, and used as a coffee substitute and additive, especially in the Mediterranean region (where the plant is native). As a coffee additive, it is also mixed in Indian filter coffee, and in parts of Southeast Asia, South Africa and southern United States, particularly in New Orleans. It has been more widely used during economic crises such as the Great Depression in the 1930s and during World War II in Continental Europe. Chicory, with sugar beet and rye, was used as an ingredient of the East German Mischkaffee (mixed coffee), introduced during the "East German coffee crisis" of 1976-79.

itis_id: 781020

wikipedia_id: Chicory

picture_file_name: 254.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 68491

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:30:08.000Z

legacy_id: 271

food_group: Vegetables

food_subgroup: Root vegetables

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:29.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-17T16:19:45.000Z

creator_id: null

updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 13427

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00254