Chinese lettuce |C
🥦 Product Name: Chinese lettuce (Cải bẹ dún) 300g +/-30g
Scientific Name: Brassica oleracea var. alboglabra
👉 Harvest Date: 60–70 days (can start as early as ~1 month for baby/first cuts)
💚 Natural flavors: Bold and more assertive than regular broccoli — earthy with a pronounced, pleasant bitterness balanced by underlying sweetness, bordering on rapini/broccoli rabe. The thick stalks are juicy and sweeter (concentrated broccoli-stem flavor); the darker leaves carry most of the bitter, mineral-like notes. Best cooked rather than eaten raw.
🍳 Recipe Suggestions:
- Cookpad: https://cookpad.com/vn/tim-kiem/c%E1%BA%A3i%20l%C3%A0n
- Run Away Rice: https://runawayrice.com/?s=chinese+broccoli
👩🍳 Nutrition Value:
- USDA: https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/food-details/169392/nutrients
- Nutritionix: https://www.nutritionix.com/food/chinese-broccoli
- Note: Run Away Rice doesn't have a dedicated gai lan recipe indexed — Cookpad (Vietnamese, "cải làn") is the stronger source, with 30+ recipes (often noted as a Lạng Sơn specialty).
🩺 Medicinal value: In Chinese folk medicine, Chinese broccoli has been valued as a nutrient-rich vegetable, with folk use to help support digestion and overall wellness.
