date:Dec 11, 2018
h among vegetables for household expenditure in 2016, theres much more to it than fluffy florets.
A cruciferous vegetable, broccoli is a member of the brassica family, along with cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoflower and Asian cabbages. Native to the eastern Mediterranean and Asia Minor, it was cultivated in Italy and introduced to England and America in the 1700s. It became a commercially grown crop in New Zealand only in the 1970s.
Broccoli is packed with helpful nutrients on