Can rape be eaten raw.

Oil greens belong to a kind of vegetable, in the case of eating raw, generally do not produce adverse reactions, and eaten raw can also be better preserved the nutrients. Rape contains a certain amount of vitamin C, minerals, carbohydrates and other nutrients.

Oilseed rape morphological characteristics:

Annual or biennial herbs, 25-70 cm high, glabrous, with frost; roots thick, hard, often into fusiform caudex, often with a short root neck at the top; base erect, branched. Basal leaves obovate or broadly obovate, 20-30 cm long, firm, dark green, glossy, base tapering into a broad stalk.

Entirely or with inconspicuous crenate or undulate teeth. Midvein white. Up to 1.5 cm wide, with multiple longitudinal veins; petiole 3-5 cm long, with or without a narrow margin; lower cauline leaves similar to basal leaves, base tapering into a petiole; upper cauline leaves obovate or elliptic, 3-7 cm long, 1-3.5 cm wide, base amplexicaul, broadly spreading, with pendant auricles on both sides, entire, faintly pruinose.

Racemes terminal, paniculate; flowers pale yellow, ca. 1 cm, up to 1.5 cm after pollination; pedicels fine, as long as or shorter than flowers; sepals oblong, 3-4 mm, erect spreading, white or yellow; petals oblong, ca. 5 mm, rounded at the tip, veined, broadly clawed.

Long-horned fruit linear, 2-6 cm long, 3-4 mm wide, hard, glabrous, fruiting petals with a distinct midrib and anastomosing lateral veins; beak apically thin, base broad, 8-12 mm long; fruiting pedicel 8-30 mm long. Seeds globose, 1-1.5 mm in diam., purple-brown, with honeycomb pattern. Flowering in April, fruiting in May.