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Chard
"Silverbeet" redirects here. For the album by The Bats, see Silverbeet (album). colspan=2 style="text-align: center; background-color: transparent; text-align:center; border: 1px solid red;" | Title=Chard;ns=0/Main/;language:wiki=en,locale=en File:Chard in the Victory Garden. jpg Red chard growing at Slow Food Nation colspan=2 style="text-align: center; background-color: transparent; text-align:center; border: 1px solid red;" | Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Eudicots (unranked): Core eudicots Order: Caryophyllales Family: Amaranthaceae Subfamily: Betoideae Genus: Beta Species: B. vulgaris Subspecies: B. vulgaris subsp. cicla colspan=2 style="text-align: center; background-color: transparent; text-align:center; border: 1px solid red;" | Synonyms Beta vulgaris var. cicla Chard (Beta vulgaris subsp. cicla), is a leafy green vegetable often used in Mediterranean cooking. While the leaves are always green, chard stalks vary in color. Chard has been bred to have highly nutritious leaves at the expense of the root (which is not as nutritious as the leaves). Chard is, in fact, considered to be one of the healthiest vegetables available and a valuable addition to a healthy diet (not unlike other green leafy vegetables). Chard has been around for centuries, however because of its similarity to beets is difficult to determine the exact evolution of the different varieties of chard.
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