Broccoli looks like a small tree with its thick trunk and pale green branches all covered with clumps of tightly packed flower buds.  Each of these branches is called a floret and this is the part that we eat as a vegetable though the trunk is also delicious to eat. Broccoli is from the same family […]

Beetroot is a root vegetable meaning that the part that we eat is the deep red root that grows under the ground.  The dark green leaves are quite attractive with their purple spine and veins and are also edible although the younger ones are the most tender. The red colour in beetroot is a compound called […]