Vegetable
Cultivated Dandelion
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Cultivated dandelion is grown for the plate: larger, often less bitter than a roadside plant, sold as a salad green. Still a dandelion, still needs a good wash. A wilted salad with bacon. Wild roadside leaves are tougher and riskier.
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Preparations
SaladWilted Bacon
Traits
FarmedLess RoadsideMarketMilderSaferSaladStill BitterWash
History
FR
French market gardens grew dandelion as a blanched or green salad.
Cultivated dandelion reached specialty produce in the US and UK.
Farmed dandelion was specified against foraged leaves for safety and mildness.