Chard is a common green and leafy vegetable that has many different culinary uses. Both the stalks and the blades of the leafs are used for cooking and they are differentiated by color, with green and red leafs and white stalks.
Chard as well as many other leafy vegetables are rather nutritious and are therefore widely used for a variety of dishes and salads. They are easy to grow and produce and that’s done throughout the US, where ever there’s good soil and enough sunlight.
Chard Trivia
- -It’s an older variety of beet
- They grow quite tall if they are not cut on time
- They contain oxalic acid