The Field Guideby Moss & MarrowThe Field Guideby Moss & Marrow
Also called raketsla.
In the Netherlands, rocket is in season May to October, at its best in May, June and September. November is outside the Dutch season for rocket.
Rocket is a quick field crop from May to October; it bolts and turns fiery in the heat of July.
Peppery, firm leaves without yellow edges.
Vitamin K, folate, calcium and the mustard-oil glucosinolates, like its brassica relatives. Naturally high in nitrate.
To get the most: Raw, dressed with oil. Wilted into pasta it keeps the folate but loses the sharper compounds.
On our nutrient density chart, a normal serving of rocket (30 g) gives about a third of a day's vitamin K, counting what your body absorbs. That puts it in the top 25% of the 244 foods we scored.
Content per NEVO, the Dutch food composition database. This describes what the food contains, not what it does for you.
Dress at the table. Wilt a big handful into pasta at the end of cooking.
12 producers in The Field Guide sell rocket, according to their own website or shop list, each checked against our inclusion criteria and listed by province. Another 166 growers passed our bar for this food group; we have not yet recorded what each of them grows, so ask them or search the map.
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