Colorful Cauliflowers - Have you seen them? - Erin

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After reading that link I sent, I wish I had bought the orange one. It said it

had 25 times the level of Vitamin A of white varieties.

I also wish I had bought the purple one. The purple color is caused by the

presence of the antioxidant group anthocyanin.

I bought the green one because it was only $1.49/head where all the others were

$2.49/head, which still isn't a bad price for cauliflower.

 

That site even mentioned that their is a yellow variety. I didn't see that

one, but this is so all so interesting the possiblities of the higher nutrition

and making a very interesting presentation of a dish at a meal, with so many

different colors of the same thing.

 

I have not seen the multi-colored carrots. That sounds fasinating that there is

such a thing. I'd love to see that.

 

I love buying bunches of swiss chard that the Red swiss chard, the yellow swiss

chard and the white swiss chard all together . They aren't multicolor on the

same plant, but they will put several stems of each of them together in a bunch

to sell and call it rainbow swiss chard. Of course it is just the center stem

that has these colors and not the leaf. We love swiss chard. Just had some

this week......... Oh so good.

Judy

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Erin

Saturday, June 23, 2007 5:39 AM

Re: Colorful Cauliflowers - Have you seen them?

 

 

I have tried the orange ones and found them, in comparison to

the standard white variety, to be 1) sweeter and 2) more tender.

Pretty good and containing more beta-carotene by way of the

orange pigmentation. At $1 more per head than the standard,

and with plenty of carrots and winter squashes in my diet, I

don't make them a regular purchase though. Have you seen also

the multi-colored carrots (red, yellow, etc.)? They too strike

me as being sweeter than your standard orange kind.

 

Enjoy,

-Erin

http://www.zenpawn.com/vegblog/vegan-done-light.html

 

, " wwjd " <jtwigg wrote:

>

> Last Sunday, we were in Atlanta, Ga at the Dekalb Farmers Market

and I saw

> the most amazing thing. They had 4 different colors of

Cauliflower. There

> were Purple, Orange, Green and of course the White that all are

familiar

> with. This was my first time ever seeing these. Have you come

across

> them before? I bought a green one, but haven't cooked it yet.

>

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauliflower Here is something I

found on the

> internet about these different colors. I thought I should have

bought all

> 3 and cooked them in seperate pots and then put them together to

serve. I

> bet everyone would have really pondered over how I colored them

like

> that.......LOL

>

> Cooking is so fun,

> Judy

>