name: Rocket Salad (Ssp.)

flavor_db_name_variants: rocket salad ssp

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Rocket salad (ssp.)

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name_scientific: Eruca vesicaria ssp. sativa

description: Eruca sativa (syn. E. vesicaria subsp. sativa (Miller) Thell., Brassica eruca L.) is an edible annual plant, commonly known as salad rocket, roquette, rucola, rugula, colewort, and, in the United States, arugula. It is sometimes conflated with Diplotaxis tenuifolia, the perennial wall rocket, another plant of the Brassicaceae family, which in the past was used in the same manner. Eruca sativa, which is widely popular as a salad vegetable, is a species of Eruca native to the Mediterranean region, from Morocco and Portugal in the west to Syria, Lebanon and Turkey in the east. The Latin adjective sativa in the plant's binomial is derived from satum, the supine of the verb sero, meaning "to sow", indicating that the seeds of the plant were sown in gardens. Eruca sativa differs from E. vesicaria in having early deciduous sepals. Some botanists consider it a subspecies of Eruca vesicaria: E. vesicaria subsp. sativa. Still others do not differentiate between the two.

itis_id: 524057

wikipedia_id: Rocket_(salad)

picture_file_name: 77.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 52274

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:36:17.000Z

legacy_id: 83

food_group: Vegetables

food_subgroup: Leaf vegetables

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:19.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:15.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 29727

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00077