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Name | Chinese cabbage | ||||||||||
Scientific Name | Brassica rapa | ||||||||||
Description | Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa, subspecies pekinensis and chinensis) can refer to two distinct varieties of Chinese leaf vegetables often used in Chinese cuisine: Pekinensis (napa cabbage) and Chinensis (bok choi). These vegetables are both variant cultivars or subspecies of the turnip and belong to the same genus as such Western staples as cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower. Both have many variations in name, spelling, and scientific classification?especially the bok choy (B. rapa chinensis) variety. | ||||||||||
Primary ID | FOOD00035 | ||||||||||
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Group | Vegetables | ||||||||||
Sub-Group | Cabbages | ||||||||||
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Superkingdom | Eukaryota | ||||||||||
Kingdom | Viridiplantae | ||||||||||
Phylum | Streptophyta | ||||||||||
Class | Magnoliopsida | ||||||||||
Order | Brassicales | ||||||||||
Family | Brassicaceae | ||||||||||
Genus | Brassica | ||||||||||
Species | rapa | ||||||||||
Variety | Not Available | ||||||||||
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ITIS ID | 23063 | ||||||||||
Wikipedia ID | Chinese_cabbage | ||||||||||
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Content Reference | — Saxholt, E., et al. 'Danish food composition databank, revision 7.' Department of Nutrition, National Food Institute, Technical University of Denmark (2008). — U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. 2008. USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference, Release 21. Nutrient Data Laboratory Home Page. — Duke, James. 'Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases. United States Department of Agriculture.' Agricultural Research Service, Accessed April 27 (2004). — Shinbo, Y., et al. 'KNApSAcK: a comprehensive species-metabolite relationship database.' Plant Metabolomics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. 165-181. |