broccoli

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Meanwhile vegetables such as broccoli, asparagus and onions have relatively low levels - so you can get away with non-organic versions.

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  1. noun A vegetable (Brassica oleracea var. italica) in the mustard family, closely related to the cauliflower and having dense clusters of numerous green flower buds.
  2. noun The flower clusters of this plant, eaten as a vegetable before the flower buds open.

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  • Garlic has the same effect, he said, and so "increasing the amount of plants in the diet -- broccoli is good, broccoli sprouts even better -- causes production of a valuable bioactive chemical." —  News On Japan
  • Meanwhile vegetables such as broccoli, asparagus and onions have relatively low levels - so you can get away with non-organic versions. —  Water Conserve: Water Conservation RSS Newsfeed
  • Though often accompanied by the name broccoli (and it looks like it), raab (or rappini or rabe) is related to turnips and descended from a wild herb.
  • The quick-cook ones such as broccoli, asparagus, spinach and corn on the cob do exceptionally well; just pop them in a dish and cover. —  Life and style | guardian.co.uk
  • What's available will change with the growing season, but currently they have chard, sugar snap peas, broccoli, herbs, garlic scapes, collard greens, beets, and lettuce.
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  1. Italian, pl. of broccolo, flowering sprout of a turnip, diminutive of brocco, shoot, sprout, from Vulgar Latin *brocca, spike; see brocade.

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  1. Italian, plural of broccolo, a sprout, cabbage-sprout, diminutive of brocco, a spit, skewer, shoot: see broach.
 

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