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.
The leaves are edible too,I use them in various recipes
The leaves are edible too,
I actually didn’t know that
Too many claims, too little sources to back it up; did big radish write this?
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
Yeah, this is the second post I’ve seen today regarding radishes.
Big Radish is on the move.
Just wait until you hear from Big Daikon.
big radish
They’re called daikon.
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.
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.
Or just cronch em!
Alternatively a little lime/lemon juice and a sprinkle of sugar and you got awesome sweet pickled radish.
Slice them thin, a tiny bit of salt and pepper, a dash of vinegar, let it rest on the fridge overnight.
Oh, so pickling them.
Not quite, right? You’re not drowning them in solution. But now I need to try fully pickling them.
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?
The latter. But don’t plant anything else nearby. The grow damn fast and shadow everything around 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.
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.
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’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.
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.
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.
Sounds like that could get rid of the benefits like vit C as well.
This is what I was looking for. How I make them taste better.
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.
Thanks for reminding me to buy radish seeds. Radishes grow pretty quickly and yes, you can roast them and they are delish-- after roasting are less peppery but still good. I want to know if Daikon radishes also have these same properties.
Daikon do! Some varieties of radish go from seed to “ready to harvest” in as little as 3 weeks. They’re also great for nutrient cycling and breaking up dense soils in preparation for other plantings, Daikon does a particularly good job as they grow deeper than many varieties. Even when planted around other things they grow low to the ground so they rarely directly compete for light.
I normally plant at least 2 waves of radishes in my garden to start and end the season.
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.
contain vitamin C
Basically all plants do. Do radishes contain unusually much of it?
improve blood pressure
Higher or lower?
Improve
Instructions unclear, circulatory system now has a refrigeration cycle
That would be amazing, what with the climate change and all…
Higher or lower?
Sideways
Flips your sistolic and diastolic, just for fun
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.
Radish, horseradish, garlic and onions are probably my favourite veggies for sandwiches
If you’ve never tried this with a sandwich, give it a shot. Toast the bread well, then take a peeled clove of garlic and rub it on the inside facing side of each slice. Basically, you’re using the rough surface of the bread to grate the garlic down to nothing until the clove is gone and transferred to the surface if the bread. Then add a light bit of olive oil, salt, and pepper. This works especially well with with salami or prosciutto and basil sandwich.
If you like garlic, it imparts a powerful flavor, even moreso than chopped. It’s basically like micro planed, but quicker
Here we fry sliced rye bread, rub it with salt and garlic and top it with melted cheese.
I’ll try your suggestion.
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.
Ok…
Qevlarr’s mama is so fat, when she jumped in the air she got stuck.
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.
Radishes contain almost no calories
Not very amazing then, given that I need those to survive.
also it’s not like other vegetables have the energy density of plutonium, aside from the starchy stuff most vegetables have precisely the amount of calories that’s good for you.
Learn to fill up on veggies and you cannot overeat. No one got overweight gorging on non staple starch veggies or fruit.
If they do not taste good, do not eat for a day or two, and cut any salt or sugar, your palette will learn to appreciate real food.
Ha! This is my advice to my pirate-crazed kids: Let’s try hardtack for a week and I bet this broccoli would taste AMAZING!
I always hate seeing this. I get a lot of people struggle with being overweight, but there are those of us that struggle maintaining a healthy weight. But all health stuff seems to be focused on low calories and losing weight. I can’t even program fitness/eating apps to help me gain weight - best I can do is “maintain current weight”.
Well that’s an easy fix: use maintain weight, and then eat a little more ;)
Even easier: maintain my weight then you’ll gain all you want
Omg, is that really the secret to eating disorders? Just “eat more”? Wow! You should be a licensed dietician!
Do you appreciate it when people tell you “just eat less?”. Does that actually work? I guess that means all fat people are just willingly fat, right? They just have to choose to eat less. Why even have health apps in the first place if it’s just that simple? Fat people are just lazy.
You see how when flipped around this is wildly offensive, but somehow you think telling someone struggling with low weight to “just eat more” isn’t?
Not really. With this flipped around my reaction is …. “whooOOSHH”.
How is it that now even self-deprecating humor targeting oneself can get someone ‘s panties in a bunch?
So someone posts their issue and you think a flippant joke dismissing them is funny?
Enjoy being a fat piece of shit then. I hope you get zero help and everyone just mocks you too.
Health apps also track calories out and this doesn’t work for that. Health apps want you to be on a decifit generally(eat less and exercise more). They’re just not setup for even “maintain” very well. This doesn’t solve the issue that most health apps are obesity centered and have alerts for too many calories, but almost never for too few. This doesn’t create a useful plan tailored to my needs, this is just “use something different and pretend it’s the same”. We do not have the same struggles and the apps don’t acknowledge any of that.
But thanks for acting like the entire problem is “just eat more”. Omg, why didn’t I think of that? Why am I trying to use create a plan to help me when I could have just eaten more! Omg! You solved it! You solved all eating disorders! Congrats! All my anxieties just suddenly vanished and I can be normal!
Oh come on. Don’t just ignore my smiley and go on a rant like a boomer snowflake.
Winking smiley is sarcasm and whatnot. You wanted a traditional smiley. I didn’t ignore your smiley at all, I took it as it was.
But since you called me a “boomer snowflake”, you can go fuck yourself, mmmk? Doubling down being a douche doesn’t make you cute. Just makes you a douche. I hope every struggle you go through gets ignored and ridiculed too ;)
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
