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Kale in Scandinavia

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Plants#Kale_in_Scandinavia, for the interested. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 10:20, 6 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Frost

"Kale can become sweeter in taste after a heavy frost."

Sweeter than what? Is kale harvested before the frosts anywhere? Here in Germany at least, kale is not considered ready for harvest until it has gone through at least one frost. --91.34.39.13 (talk) 08:00, 15 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

"Kale is high in oxalic acid"

I don't think that's correct. The article oxalic acid says it's very low. --Chaptagai (talk) 11:13, 4 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I see that the high in oxalic acid sentence is still in the article, but the sources I found seem to vary about it, mostly stating it is low on oxalates. The article quotes a 2018 paper where it is stated 100 grams of fresh Galega kale has around 300 mg of oxalic acid, which is quite high. But is it just a specific cultivar having a high oxalate content? This table from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health states 1 cup of raw kale (probably ~60 grams, no cultivar specified) has 0.7 mg: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutrition-questionnaire-service-center/wp-content/uploads/sites/2637/2023/11/OXALATE-TABLE-1.xlsx ThisNameIsAvailable (talk) 21:05, 12 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Russian kale

This article starts by stating that kale is a form of Brassica oleracea, but then it also covers Russian kale, which is B napus var pabularia. We need to deal with this conflict, either by broadening the lead para to cover both, or by separating the two into different articles. Which would be better? Richard New Forest (talk) 09:43, 7 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Biennial plant

it is. You can harvest leaves and stem the first year, the plant is blooming and ripening seeds the second year. I have corrected that. Wolfgang Kaul (talk) 21:17, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]