Re: kale (was:Re: Family message sent this morning)

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Rodney: you are absolutely correct. We also have many past excellent posts

in the archives about kale. Here are a few:

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(the above post points to this great article about kale + gives some

recipes:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article & node= & contentId=A2

1714-2003Jan21 & notFound=true

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(kale/oyster soup variation - get your kale + hard to get zinc in this

recipe)

Other recipes for Kale: msgs 4548 -4568

(there's a special box on the home page to search by msg #)

on 3/14/2004 12:40 AM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote:

> Many thanks to all those who contributed today (now yesterday, here

> at least) for the EXCELLENT posts.

>

> I would like to just add a point to one section of RJB's post - the

> section attached at the bottom of the page. This is what I would

> like to add:

>

> It seems to me that if there is just one magical vegetable, it may

> perhaps be KALE.

>

> Not only does it have all the wonderful characteristics of the other

> leafy green vegetables - bok choy, spinach, romaine and broccoli for

> example - which we all know to be loaded with micronutrients, but in

> addition, unlike many of the others, it contains a negligible amount

> of oxalic acid. And on top of that it appears to be in first place

> in the list of ORAC values for vegetables.

>

> Hard to beat it seems.

>

> Rodney.

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>> the many varieties of cabbages, broccoli, green-red-orange-yellow

>> bell peppers, spinach, kale, turnip greens, collard greens, red and

>> green swiss chard.......

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