name: Garden Cress

flavor_db_name_variants: garden cress

source: foodb

status: draft

food_db_id: Garden cress

id: 99

name_scientific: Lepidium sativum

description: Cress (Lepidium sativum), sometimes referred to as garden cress to distinguish it from similar plants also referred to as cress. Garden Cress is a rather fast-growing, edible herb. Garden cress is genetically related to watercress and mustard, sharing their peppery, tangy flavor and aroma. In some regions, garden cress is known as mustard and cress, garden pepper cress, pepper grass, pepperwort or poor person's pepper. This annual plant can reach a height of 60 cm (~24 inches), with many branches on the upper part. The white to pinkish flowers are only 2 mm (1/12 of an inch) across, clustered in branched racemes.

itis_id: 22978

wikipedia_id: Garden cress

picture_file_name: 99.jpg

picture_content_type: image/jpeg

picture_file_size: 169763

picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:39:16.000Z

legacy_id: 106

food_group: Vegetables

food_subgroup: Leaf vegetables

food_type: Type 1

created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:20.000Z

updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:16.000Z

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updater_id: null

export_to_afcdb: false

category: specific

ncbi_taxonomy_id: 33125

export_to_foodb: true

public_id: FOOD00099