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Kale

Cold weather makes kale produce sugars to protect itself, so winter kale tastes sweeter than summer kale.

🦴 Calcium🍊 Vitamin C🌾 Fibre🩸 Iron

How it grows

As tall leafy stalks that you pick from, leaf by leaf, for months.

Where it came from

The eastern Mediterranean.

🚚 From field to plate

  1. 1. Sown
  2. 2. Leaves grow
  3. 3. Picked leaf by leaf
  4. 4. Washed
  5. 5. Shop
  6. 6. Your crisps tray

🤓 Fun facts

  • Frost makes kale sweeter.
  • Kale is the same species as broccoli and cabbage.
  • You can grow it in a pot on a balcony.