white cabbage

Sauerkraut's raw form

White cabbage is the common round-headed cabbage with pale green to white leaves, the variety most often found in supermarkets.

It's the standard cabbage for coleslaw, sauerkraut, and general cooking: Shred the white cabbage for the salad.

The name distinguishes it from red cabbage, savoy, and other varieties.

fermented

sauerkraut

Lacto-fermented cabbage

probiotic · brine · pickling · tangy · acidic · preservation · jarred · pungent · sourness · crock

cooking

coleslaw

Dressed shredded cabbage

dumplings · soup · wraps · braising · steaming · blanching · pickling · fermenting · shredding · julienne

nutrition

vitamins

Essential organic nutrients

minerals · vitamin C · folate · potassium · calcium · iron · magnesium · nutrient-dense · wholesome · digestive

botany

brassica

Cruciferous vegetable genus

leaves · core · vegetable · biennial · chlorophyll · herbaceous · savoy

texture

crunchy

Breaking with sound

snap · shredding · crispness · freshness · chilled · cool · leafy · layered · dense · raw

farming

harvest

Gathering mature crops

irrigation · fertilizing · organic · pesticide · greenhouse · rotation · compost · weeding · tilling · farmland

Categories
Opposites
cabbage variety/color

white cabbagered cabbage

Purple-leaved cruciferous vegetable

purple cabbage · green cabbage · radicchio

leaf texture/structure

white cabbagecurly kale

Wrinkled variety of brassica

Chinese cabbage · bok choy

vegetable category

white cabbageroot vegetable

Edible subterranean plant part

carrot · beetroot · tomato · fruit

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G