Purple cabbage and purple kale are the same.

Purple kale and purple cabbage is the same kind of vegetable, just called differently, belongs to the cruciferous species, is one of the species of kale, purple kale has many kinds of names, in addition to being known as the "purple cabbage", but also known as the red kale and red kale, because the leaves show a purple-red color is known as purple kale. It is also known as red kale and russet kale because of the purplish-red color of its leaves. Purple kale has a round shape and very tightly wrapped leaves. It originally originated in the Mediterranean region and was gradually introduced to China, where it is now cultivated in many parts of the country.

Purple kale likes to grow in a warm and humid climate, although the purple kale can live in the humidity and shade, but the purple kale in the growing process or need to often sun, only enough sunlight can grow more lush. Be sure to fertilize often during the growing season, but don't overdo it to avoid root burn.

Purple kale how to pick

1, look at the appearance

Fresh purple kale appearance is relatively dry, if the surface of the purple kale leaves sprinkled with some water, it is likely to have been stored for a long time purple kale, sprinkle some water to keep it moist, so that is still don't pick and the surface of purple kale is very clean, you can peel the leaves. The surface of the kale is very clean, you can peel off the leaves, if it is very easy to peel off.

The quality of this purple kale is a bit poor, if it is not so good to peel up more sturdy, such a purple kale is very good, the ball is particularly tight. And in the selection of the time must not pick the surface rupture, and there are insect eyes of the purple kale, such purple kale are very poor quality is recommended that you do not buy.

2, weight

We can take a few more purple kale to compare the weight, the general quality of good fresh purple kale its weight is relatively heavy a little pressure hand feeling, because the fresh purple kale inside the water contained in the particular, so the weight of the relatively heavier, if it is placed for a long time of purple kale, its weight will become lighter, because the water has been lost! The first thing we can do is to weigh a few more to determine the quality of the product.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Purple cabbage