Vegetable
Rainbow Chard
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Rainbow chard is a mix or multicolour selection of red, yellow, orange, pink, and white stems with green leaves—sold for visual impact as much as flavour. Taste matches standard chard; stems keep colour better with shorter cooks. Farmers-market favourite. Sauté gently to retain stem colour; use raw thin slices in salads. The showiest chard class. Often Bright Lights genetics in the bag.
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Preparations
Colour SauteKids GardenMarket BunchThin Raw StemWilt Salad
Traits
Mild GreenMixed StemsMulticolour StemsRainbowShort Cook ColourShowyStandard Chard FlavourVisual Market Mix
History
NZ
Bright Lights-type rainbow chard mixes popularised multicolour stems globally.
Rainbow chard bunches became farmers-market icons.
Supermarkets stocked rainbow chard as specialty greens.
Rainbow chard remained the colourful default mix.