Cauliflower leaves

[french frank]

Can anyone explain why these are always cut short by growers/markets/greengrocers? Very annoying. I've tried googling why remove cauliflower leaves annoying but I only get 'Can you eat cauliflower leaves/stumps?' I've found other people saying they wish they were left on, but no one explains why they're removed. To make them smaller so they get more in a box? If they were bigger they could charge more because you get more helpings from them.

[Serial_Apologist]

Cauliflower comes back...

[Pulcinella]

So that you can see how big the actual head is, and that it's not rotten?

[oddoneout]

Various reasons, apart from the being able to see the curds before buying. They fit better in containers which are then stacked for transport, the leaves increase the moisture loss from the head and look unattractive when they droop and begin to discolour, most people don't want them certainly not in supermarkets, it reduces the weight for transport and handling, leaves taken off by growers stand some chance of avoiding landfill which is otherwise the fate of the majority of such leafage if it is taken home.
Years ago when I was breeding and showing guinea pigs the boxes of cauli trimmings brought home on the back of my bike were a staple of their diet. I wasn't the only one who took the veg waste and sometimes the pickings were lean for me if we were all there at the same time as I was low in the hierarchy.

[french frank]

That all makes sense.

Years ago when I was breeding and showing guinea pigs the boxes of cauli trimmings brought home on the back of my bike were a staple of their diet. I wasn't the only one who took the veg waste and sometimes the pickings were lean for me if we were all there at the same time as I was low in the hierarchy.

So I'd probably like tinned pet food too . As it is, I eat every bit of my caulflower. All very nutritious. Waste not want not . Especially good for stir fries.

[oddoneout]

That all makes sense.



So I'd probably like tinned pet food too . As it is, I eat every bit of my caulflower. All very nutritious. Waste not want not . Especially good for stir fries.

Yes, on occasion some of the petfood got diverted as it was usually very fresh and my children liked raw cauliflower. The number of folk who do eat/use every part of the whole of what they buy is small sadly - even chicken carcasses post-roast seem to be considered waste. If the unwanted bits can be/are used for good purpose by processors then that would seem to be a better approach than having them thrown away in the home.

[oddoneout]

That all makes sense.



So I'd probably like tinned pet food too . As it is, I eat every bit of my caulflower. All very nutritious. Waste not want not . Especially good for stir fries.

Actually, the human equivalent of what my piggies were fed was definitely not tinned pet food!

[Dave2002]

That all makes sense.



So I'd probably like tinned pet food too . As it is, I eat every bit of my caulflower. All very nutritious. Waste not want not . Especially good for stir fries.

Re tinned pet food, it allegedly has to be fit [though not necessarily "nice"] for human consumption. Also - something maybe not so well known - dogs can eat tinned cat food, but cats shouldn't really be given a diet of dog food. Something to do with vitamin and other components of their dietary requirements.

[Bryn]

Re tinned pet food, it allegedly has to be fit [though not necessarily "nice"] for human consumption. Also - something maybe not so well known - dogs can eat tinned cat food, but cats shouldn't really be given a diet of dog food. Something to do with vitamin and other components of their dietary requirements.

Dogs can live healthily on a vegan diet if forced to do so. Cats cannot, since they are unable, for one thing, to synthesise their own taurine. However, both species are very likely to supplement their diets with non-vegan items when out and about. The human-defined differences between animal, vegetable, fungal, etc., are all pretty blurred, anyway.

[eighthobstruction]

.....apparently Richi Sunak has no idea about what the govt will do with cauliflower leaves ....(he is still reeling from the scandal of his attitude to the drying and possible uses of Brussel Sprout stalks, and Suella Braverman being out-spoken on Kale at the UN)....

[french frank]

.....apparently Richi Sunak has no idea about what the govt will do with cauliflower leaves ....(he is still reeling from the scandal of his attitude to the drying and possible uses of Brussel Sprout stalks, and Suella Braverman being out-spoken on Kale at the UN)....

That's a scandal. Where's the vision?

[Pulcinella]

That's a scandal. Where's the vision?

He's claiming that he's bringing inflation down as promised, so presumably chopping off cauliflower leaves that are getting too big is all part of the process.

[french frank]

He's claiming that he's bringing inflation down as promised, so presumably chopping off cauliflower leaves that are getting too big is all part of the process.

Smaller government, smaller cauliflowers ...

[eighthobstruction]

Smaller government, smaller cauliflowers ...

....but really they are plotting, fewer cauliflowers then NO CAULIFLOWERS....or cauliflowers diverted to Rwanda....Why do you think they moved all the Asylum Seekers out of Bibby Stockholm....now full of '...." first they came for the people who cut off their cauliflower leaves"

[Dave2002]

Dogs can live healthily on a vegan diet if forced to do so. Cats cannot, since they are unable, for one thing, to synthesise their own taurine. However, both species are very likely to supplement their diets with non-vegan items when out and about. The human-defined differences between animal, vegetable, fungal, etc., are all pretty blurred, anyway.

I know of one dog which is almost an omnivore - though perhaps with a preference for meat - and really likes fish - cans of sardines [in water] go down a treat. However she goes wild for porridge, and can hardly get enough of the stuff. Not our dog, btw.