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Stalk vegetables

You guessed it: stalk vegetables are vegetables with edible stalks. Asparagus, celery, fiddlehead ferns, rhubarb - yes, rhubarb is actually a vegetable! - are all part of this category. In certain cases, the leaves of stalk vegetables are also edible.

Certain stalk vegetables are familiar to us and the others deserve a closer look. Fennel and Swiss chard, for example, are gaining in popularity not only because of their great taste but also because of their high vitamin and mineral content.

Let's discover the world of stalk vegetables!

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