Red+cabbage

Known Scientifically as //Brassica// //Oleracea//.

The Red Cabbage is a vegetable. We eat the leaves or the head of the cabbage.

Wacky facts:
 * 1) The purplish leaf can be used to distinguish between acids and bases.
 * 2) white juice, from the eed cabbage can be used to relieve eye pain.
 * 3) Used as a natural dye for food or cloth.
 * 4) Cabbage is one of the oldest vegetables, dating back to the 1600's.
 * 5) Red cabbage in coleslaw became popular in the U.S.A. in 1903 when bottled mayonaise was invented.

Did you know that the egyptians thought that they could drink a concoction that they made. If they drank it they thought that they wouldn't become intoxicated.

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