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Horseradish

Armoracia rusticanaAlso called Armoracia rusticana

Horseradish is a vegetable root with moderate, pungent heat. Cooks use it for seasoning, and it pairs with sour cream, vinegar, eggs, apples, ham, and beef.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category
Vegetables
Part used
Root
Family
Brassicaceae
Horseradish, whole

Photo: 范皓程 · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use horseradish

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Season

Preparing it

Cutting or grating the root releases its pungent mustard oil.

Cooking with it

Air or heat can diminish its bite and make it bitter.

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Heat

Isothiocyanate3 out of 5

Shopping

Choosing and storing horseradish

Choosing a good one

Avoid woody roots; they are no longer useful for cooking.

Nutrition

What 100 g of horseradish holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 9%Fat 5%Carbohydrate 86%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of horseradish
Energy48 kcal · 201 kJ
Protein1.2 g
Fat0.69 g
of which saturated0.09 g
Carbohydrate11 g
of which sugars8 g
Fibre3.3 g
Sodium420 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of horseradish: minerals and vitamins
Potassium246 mg
Calcium56 mg
Iron0.42 mg
Magnesium27 mg
Zinc0.83 mg
Vitamin C25 mg
Folate57 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 173472), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

On the table

Dishes made with horseradish

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Ćwikła

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include horseradish.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: horseradish in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What horseradish is called

Names in 90 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    rabano picante · Armoracia armoracia · Armoracia lapathifolia · Nasturtium armoracia

  • French

    raifort · Armoracia à feuilles de Patience · Cochlearia armoracia · Armoracia rusticana

  • Italian

    barbaforte · Armoracia rusticana · rafano rusticano · rafano tedesco

  • Portuguese

    Raiz-forte · Rábano-silvestre-maior · Rábano-silvestre · Saramago maior

  • German

    Meerrettich · Armoracia rusticana · Cochlearia armoracia · Kren

  • Dutch

    mierikswortelplant · Armoracia rusticana · Cochlearia armoracia · mierik

  • Greek

    Χραίνα · Meerrettich

  • Turkish

    Bayır turpu · Bayırturpu · Armoracia rusticana · Cochlearia armoracia

  • Russian

    хрен обыкновенный · Armoracia rusticana · хрен деревенский

  • Polish

    chrzan pospolity · Armoracia rusticana

  • Arabic

    فجل الخيل الريفي · فجل حار · خردل الألمان · جرجار نبات

  • Persian

    ترب کوهی

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  • Afrikaans

    Peperwortel

  • Albanian

    Armoracia rusticana

  • Armenian

    կծվիչ սովորական

  • Aromanian

    Olmu

  • Asturian

    Armoracia rusticana

  • Austrian German

    Kren · Armoracia rusticana · Cochlearia armoracia · Meerrettich

  • azb

    عادی قیتیق اوْتو

  • Azerbaijani

    Adi qıtıqotu · Cochlearia rusticana · Armoracia rustica · Armoracia armoracia

  • Bangla

    সজিনা

  • Bashkir

    Керән

  • Basque

    Errefau min

  • Bavarian

    Kren

  • Belarusian

    Хрэн звычайны · Armoracia rusticana

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    хрэн звычайны

  • Bosnian

    Hren

  • Breton

    riforz

  • Bulgarian

    хрян

  • Cantonese

    辣根

  • Catalan

    rave rusticà · Armoracia rusticana · Cochlearia armoracia · Rave picant

  • Cebuano

    Armoracia rusticana

  • Chinese

    辣根 · 亮菌 · 马萝卜

  • Chuvash

    Хĕрен

  • Croatian

    Hren

  • Czech

    křen selský · Armoracia rusticana · Cochlearia armoracia · křen

  • Danish

    peberrod · Armoracia rusticana · Amoracia rusticana

  • Egyptian Arabic

    فجل الخيل الريفى

  • Erzya

    Крён

  • Esperanto

    Kreno · Armoracia rusticana

  • Estonian

    aed-mädarõigas · Cochlearia armoracia · Armoracia rustiana

  • Finnish

    piparjuuri · Cochlearia armorica · Armoracia rusticana · Armoracia lapathifolia

  • Galician

    Armoracia rusticana

  • Georgian

    პირშუშხა

  • Hebrew

    חזרת הגינה · Armoracia rusticana

  • Hindi

    हॉर्सरैडिश

  • Hungarian

    torma · Armoracia lapathifolia · közönséges torma

  • Icelandic

    Piparrót

  • Ido

    Armoracio · Rafano

  • Igbo

    Armoracia rusticana

  • Indonesian

    Lobak pedas

  • Irish

    Armoracia rusticana

  • Japanese

    ホースラディッシュ · ウマワサビ · レホール · レフォール

  • Kazakh

    Ақжелкек

  • Korean

    겨자무 · 호스래디시

  • Latin

    Armoracia rusticana

  • Latvian

    mārrutks · mārrutki · Armoracia rusticana

  • Ligurian

    Rava

  • Limburgish

    mieraedig

  • Lithuanian

    Valgomasis krienas · Krienai · Armoracia rusticana · Krienas

  • Lower Sorbian

    kśěn

  • Luxembourgish

    Mierréidech · Moschterkraut · Armoracia rusticana

  • Macedonian

    рен · Armoracia rusticana

  • Malay

    Lobak kuda

  • Malayalam

    അർമോറേഷ്യ റസ്റ്റിക്കാന

  • Northern Frisian

    Pöberrut · Armoracia rusticana

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    pepperrot

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    peparrot · Cochlearia armoraica · Horseradish · Hren

  • Odia

    ହର୍ସରାଡିଶ

  • Ossetic

    Туттургъан · Armoracia rusticana

  • Piedmontese

    Armoracia rusticana

  • Punjabi

    ਹੋਰਸੇਰਾਡਿਸ਼

  • Romanian

    Hrean · Armoracia rusticana

  • Samogitian

    Krėins

  • Scots

    reidcoll

  • Serbian

    рен

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Hren

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    马萝卜

  • Slovak

    Chren dedinský · Armoracia rusticana · Cochlearia armoracia

  • Slovenian

    navadni hren · Cochlearia armoracia · Armoracia rusticana · hren

  • Swedish

    pepparrot · Armoracia rusticana

  • Tajik

    Турби кӯҳӣ

  • Thai

    ฮอร์สแรดิช

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    馬蘿蔔

  • Ukrainian

    Хрін звичайний · Хрін

  • Upper Sorbian

    Zahrodny chrěn

  • Uzbek

    Yerqalampir

  • Venetian

    Cren · Armoracia rusticana

  • Vietnamese

    cải ngựa · Armoracia rusticana

  • Waray

    Armoracia rusticana

  • Welsh

    Rhuddygl poeth

  • Western Mari

    Ӹрӓн · Armoracia rusticana

  • Wu Chinese

    辣根

  • Yiddish

    כריין · כרײן

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q26545

Photos

Photo: 范皓程 · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons