I’ve already ordered and received most of my garden seeds for this year. I mainly order from Baker’s Creek Heirloom Seeds because, when the time comes (not yet) I’m hoping to be able to harvest my own seeds. So I order from them, and large orders, and this year they sent along a “bonus” packet of seeds (pretty common from seed sellers and a nice thing). “Oriental Mizuna Greens” – I figured I’d find somewhere to grow them (we’re having quite a large area for lettuce and spinach so I found a small corner to try them out).
This evening, on a lark, I went looking for vegetable sources for calcium. Guess what’s among the very highest? Mustard Spinach – aka Japanese Mizuna. Too funny. What’s best is that in a single cup of it, there’s over 30% of your daily recommended amount of calcium (based on 2000 cal diet). Better yet, 325% of your daily recommended amount of vitamin C and 297% of vitamin A, 30% manganese (very important for processing calcium), and 3g of protein. It’s like super-food!
Extra peculiar is that with many of the “deep greens” that’re so high in calcium (beet, collard, kale, spinach, etc), they’re minimal when raw, but the calcium level explodes when cooked. I suspect I’ll be pureeing a lot of this stuff to sneak into sauces and such. I’ll also be making more room in the garden for it!