chicory
Blue-flowered salad green
Chicory is a plant with bright blue flowers, cultivated for its leaves and roots.
The leaves appear in salads, sometimes as the bitter variety called radicchio.
The root, roasted and ground, serves as a coffee substitute or additive—especially associated with New Orleans coffee: café au lait with chicory.
In British usage, chicory often means what Americans call endive.
Bitter salad leaf
Sharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- sharpFine-edged, or astute
- tangySharp and lively-tasting
- astringentTissue-contracting agent
- pungentSharply strong-smelling
acrid · tart · endive · escarole · frisée · unsweetened · bite · aftertaste
Cooked uncovered with heat
- caffeine-freeLacking the stimulant
- brewSteeped or fermented drink
- blendedMixed into uniformity
- groundSolid surface underfoot
instant · granules · additive · creamer · mug · filter · drip · percolate
Plant-derived soluble fiber
- microbiomeBody's microbial community
- bifidobacteriaBeneficial gut microorganisms
- digestionBodily food breakdown
- fermentableCapable of microbial conversion
intestinal · prebiotic · nutrition · supplement · extraction
Recurring each year
- taprootMain descending root
- wildflowerUncultivated flowering plant
- roadsideAdjacent to pavement
- compositeMade of distinct parts
rosette · herbaceous · cultivar · foraging · weed · naturalized
Removing harmful substances internally
- digestiveRelating to food breakdown
- diureticUrine-promoting substance
- anti-inflammatoryInflammation-reducing agent
- antioxidantOxidation-preventing molecule
endive
Bitter salad leaf
greens · forcing · blanched · hearts · mesclun · raw · crisp
bitterness
Sharp, unpleasant taste or feeling
- sharpFine-edged, or astute
- tangySharp and lively-tasting
- astringentTissue-contracting agent
pungent · acrid · tart · endive · escarole · frisée · unsweetened · bite · aftertaste · bracing
roasted
Cooked uncovered with heat
- caffeine-freeLacking the stimulant
- brewSteeped or fermented drink
- blendedMixed into uniformity
ground · instant · granules · additive · creamer · mug · filter · drip · percolate · aromatic
inulin
Plant-derived soluble fiber
- microbiomeBody's microbial community
- bifidobacteriaBeneficial gut microorganisms
- digestionBodily food breakdown
fermentable · intestinal · prebiotic · nutrition · supplement · extraction
perennial
Recurring each year
- taprootMain descending root
- wildflowerUncultivated flowering plant
- roadsideAdjacent to pavement
composite · rosette · herbaceous · cultivar · foraging · weed · naturalized
detoxification
Removing harmful substances internally
- digestiveRelating to food breakdown
- diureticUrine-promoting substance
- anti-inflammatoryInflammation-reducing agent
antioxidant · liver · appetite · tonic
- chicoriesendive, escarole, frisee, Belgian endive
- Chicory Familyendive, escarole, frisee, Belgian endive, dandelion
- BelgiumBrussels, Belgium, Flanders, Antwerp, Bruges
- Blue Flowersbluebell, bluebonnet, blue violet, cornflower, forget-me-not
- greensspinach, kale, lettuce, arugula, chard
- leafy greensspinach, kale, curly kale, collard greens, lettuce
chicorybutter lettuce
Tender-leaved salad green
iceberg lettuce · lettuce · spinach · romaine · sweet corn
- chicory coffeeBeverage from roasted roots