Web Stories – 10 Proven Health Benefits of Broccoli
Hiral Patel
February 21, 2022
Nutrition
Broccoli is an edible green and crunchy plant which is eaten either cooked or raw. The flower buds and stalks of broccoli are edible. The botanical name of broccoli is Brassica oleracea var. Italica, with its roots in primitive cultivars grown in the Roman Empire.
It’s interesting to know that broccoli stems from the Italian plural of broccoli, which means “the flowering crest of a cabbage”, and is the diminutive form of brocco, meaning “small nail” or “sprout”.
It resembles a miniature tree, and there are three main varieties:
