name: Chinese Broccoli

flavor_db_name_variants: chinese broccoli

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Chinese broccoli

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name_scientific: Brassica alboglabra

description: Kai-lan (also written as gai-lan) is the Cantonese name for a vegetable that is also known as Chinese broccoli or Chinese kale. It is a leaf vegetable featuring thick, flat, glossy blue-green leaves with thick stems and a small number of tiny flower heads similar to those of broccoli. Broccoli and kai-lan belong to the same species Brassica oleracea, but kai-lan is in the group alboglabra [Latin albus+glabrus white and hairless]. Its flavor is very similar to that of broccoli, but slightly more bitter. It is also noticeably stronger. Broccolini is a hybrid between broccoli and kai-lan, produced by Mann Packing Company, Inc.

itis_id: 506218

wikipedia_id: Chinese_broccoli

picture_file_name: 335.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 29241

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:35:42.000Z

legacy_id: 362

food_group: Vegetables

food_subgroup: Cabbages

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:35.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:23.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 3714

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00330