Fresh radishes are very tasty. I like them better as a planty snack than carrots.
Too many claims, too little sources to back it up; did big radish write this?
Yeah, this is the second post I’ve seen today regarding radishes.
Big Radish is on the move.
Although sulforaphane research on cancer has been ongoing for many years, there is no good clinical evidence to indicate consuming sulforaphane-rich vegetables or dietary supplements provides any effect. Wikipedia
Hmm
The fact that this post continues to stay up is an indictment of Lemmy moderation
you don’t feel that way when you have to make dozens of radish roses in culinary school
Since you’re practiced, I’ll settle for one.
Was this written by a guy who is in love with, and does sleep with, radishes?
daikon’t see a problem with it.
I love that the pronunciation of daikon makes this sentence sound British in my head
They also make your farts smell like rotten eggs if you eat too many of them.
Sold
really?
raw? I’ve been eating radishes for years - the red ones mostly - and haven’t had this.
I certainly have broccoli farts tho, and asparagus pee.
pickled - kimchi for example - oh heck yeah but that’s a lot of fermenting
contain vitamin C
Basically all plants do. Do radishes contain unusually much of it?
improve blood pressure
Higher or lower?
Higher or lower?
Sideways
Flips your sistolic and diastolic, just for fun
Improve
Instructions unclear, circulatory system now has a refrigeration cycle
That would be amazing, what with the climate change and all…
I mean they’re cool, but they’re not that cool.
They’re only rad-ish.
How dare you…take my dam upvote
dam
Don’t suppose you’re actually a beaver?
I was using swipe typing and knew it was wrong when reading it. Then I was like fuck it and hit post anyway like a fucking madman. Felt good.
That was way more clever than it had any right to be… Get out!
When prepared well I find them radishing.
Also one of the few foods that give me inexplicable instant acid foaming back up from my stomach. I’ll eat habaneros for giggles, no problem, but a single one of those little round red monsters in a salad and I’m out.
It’s likely the sulforaphane, the compound that doesn’t actually fight cancer at all. Similar to the sulfur containing compounds in onions, it’s an irritant created when radish tissue is damaged to repel pests. In mammals, it irritates the lining of the digestive tract and causes the lower esophageal sphincter, which normally keeps stomach acid from refluxing, to relax.
Dunno, but wiki says “Sulforaphane is present in cruciferous vegetables, such as broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage. Sulforaphane has two possible stereoisomers due to the presence of a stereogenic sulfur atom.[3]”
I eat those three foods with no problem, unless radishes are the different isomer…
Sulforaphane is heat labile, so cooking breaks some of it down. Broccoli and cabbage are fairly low in it, while Brussels sprouts and radishes are quite high. Radishes also have high amounts of sulforaphene, a related compound with similar properties. So it might be cooked vs raw, quantity consumed, -phane vs -phane/-phene, or something else entirely.
Only the R-isomer is found in any appreciable amount in nature, so it’s probably not that unless you’re eating research radishes.
Duh. I’m not braining too well today, of course it’s the cooking.
You’re fine! I had to ask myself why I cared so much, and it’s because I love radishes but they also wreck my guts. I have no problem eating them cooked, though the spicy/snappy flavor goes away because that’s the sulforaphane/phene.
It’s yet another vegetable humans love because of the thing it makes to keep animals from eating it. We’re culinary masochists.
If anyone here dislikes the peppery taste of raw radishes, I recommend cutting them into chunks, tossing with some olive oil, salt, and other seasoning and roast them until they are tender. This gets rid of the peppery taste and makes them taste more like potatoes or turnips.
Sounds like that could get rid of the benefits like vit C as well.
Roasting them in a non-cast iron pan is the way to lose the least amount of vitamin C out of all available cooking methods. And to someone who won’t eat radishes if they aren’t cooked, they get more vitamin C eating them cooked than not eating them at all.
The peppery taste is what I like most about radishes.
That’s always been my issue with them. I’ve been trying to expand my palate continuously, and this sounds wonderful. Definitely giving it a try.
Huh, I might try that. While I like the taste of radishes, I never know what to do with them other than toss in a salad. My kids don’t like the taste so another option is bonus
Or in soup.
The leaves are edible too,I use them in various recipes
The leaves are edible too,
I actually didn’t know that
And they’re by far the easiest vegetable to grow yourself, so much so that being called a ‘radish farmer’ is an insult.
They’re easier than zucchini? Does that make keeping radishes from taking over their entire plots actually kind of difficult or do they just grow perfectly only where you plant them?
I would still mess it up.
Not really it is those wascally wabbits and deer. Poor soil too.
Pro tip: sprinkle your piss in the garden regularily, it works at fertilizer and keeps deer and possibly most other herbivorous mammals at bay. If you have neighbors, it’s recommendable to, uh, collect it in the bathroom into a jar or jug instead of doing it on spot.
No this is not a joke, the deer haven’t eaten my plants nearly as often when I started deterring them with this.
I’ve heard that man piss keeps a lot of animals away. The testosterone in it wards off many animals, including predators if you have chickens (I did last year, first my dog killed some, then a bear killed all, presumably a bear. Going with Guinea Hens this spring instead)
No neighbors to speak of here, I will start peeing out there and hope it works, I am most concerned with protecting my apple seedlings I am going to start shortly, previous years fruit trees get eaten.
I’m not a man. Nothing to do with testosterone.
The pee warding off predators is literally about testosterone, it carries through in the piss and scares off certain predators supposedly, female pee isn’t supposed to work. It’s not my fact I’ve multiple sources telling me that, from Bear Gryllis on the discovery channel, to elsewhere. So I don’t know the accuracy but it is not disputed anywhere I’ve seen yet but accepted and verified.
Not sure about predators, but I believe that the reason it works with herbivorous mammals like deer is because they can smell a human scent and don’t stop to snack there since they think there might be a human nearby.
See I’ve heard the opposite, at least for deer. Deer seek out salts since they grow antlers every year which takes a ton of calcium, so peeing on trees makes them target the bark where you’ve peed. Not totally sure tho
Oh yeah, I had only heard that predators were scared off by the testosterone, but yeah herbivores are salt starved they would try and lick a mountain lion’s balls if it was salty in a no salt area like I am here. Probably best not doing it at all.
I love radishes. One of my favorite vegetables.
Too bad they taste bad
That’s crazy. They are delicious!
Roast them
Radish the kind of veggie that gets relegated to a mook in DBZ
There, roasted.
Yeah, without cooking, if you eat too many pieces, they give a weird pain in the chest, which can be stronger than onions, if you have a good quality radish.
I don’t know about that, where I live we eat a lot of radishes with tacos, pozole, enchiladas, we make radish salsas and eat whole radishes with lime and never heard anything like that lol
I see. Guess it’s just a me thing.
If I much them continuously, then on top of feeling spicy, I get that other feeling, so I tend to take little bites, while eating other stuff.
yeah im not a fan myself. I guess it is a good target for supplements.
You say they have no calories like that should make me more inclined to want to eat them. We are not all fat you know.
I do like radishes though.
As someone who tries desperately to bulk, fitness/health marketing is so frustrating.
I need calories, these small portion minimal fat and calorie bull shit foods low-key piss me off.
And they’re delicious.
Put a lil salt on em and its a genuinely great snack.
Well, until you get that one that’s randomly hotter than the sun and turns your eyes and nose into gushing torrents, while you try not to cough it out in front of everyone else.
Always when you least expect it
The gamblers choice. I like it.
Edit: same as that mystery chunk of ginger/cloves/etc.
You know, I love radishes in salad or stir fry or whatever, and I just never thought of them as a standalone snack…
And thats on me. I’m gonna get some radishes today while I’m briefly out in the arctic temperatures.
Lower your blood pressure on one hand and raise it with the other. A perfect balance.
Alternatively a little lime/lemon juice and a sprinkle of sugar and you got awesome sweet pickled radish.
Or just cronch em!
Slice them thin, a tiny bit of salt and pepper, a dash of vinegar, let it rest on the fridge overnight.
