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Turnips

Turnips are nutritious root vegetables sought after in a variety of cuisines across europe, asia, and eastern american regions. It is one of the cool-season vegetables belonging within the broad brassicaceae family, which also includes cabbage, kale, brussels-sprouts, etc.
The roots have been cultivated as staple food during ancient greek and roman periods. Although, its bulbous root which is widely popular, it is its top fresh greens rather more nutritious, several times richer in vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants.
Small young turnips or ababy turnipsa are called when the roots harvested early in the growing stage. They are delicate, sweeter and eaten raw in salads. However, as they advance in age and maturity, their flavor becomes more pronounced and texture firm and woody.
Rutabaga, another root vegetable, is closely related to turnips. Rutabagas are larger, more round, mostly feature yellow color flesh, and sweeter than turnips.
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Health benefits
Turnips are very low calorie root vegetables; contains only 28 calories per 100 g. However, they are very good source of anti-oxidants, minerals, vitamins and dietary fiber.
Fresh roots are indeed one of the vegetables rich in vitamin c; provide about 21mg or 35% of dra of vitamin c per 100 g. Vitamin-c is a powerful water-soluble anti-oxidant required by the body for synthesis of collagen. It also helps the body scavenge harmful free radicals, prevents from cancers, inflammation, and helps boost immunity.
Turnip greens indeed are the storehouse of many vital nutrients; contain certain minerals and vitamins several fold more than that in the roots. The greens are very rich in antioxidants like vitamin a, vitamin c, carotenoid, xanthin, and lutein. In addition, the leafy-tops are an excellent source of vitamin k.
In addition, its top greens are also a very good source of b-complex group of vitamins such as folates, riboflavin, pyridoxine, pantothenic acid and thiamin.
Furher, the fresh greens are also excellent sources of important minerals like calcium, copper, iron and manganese.


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