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Radicchio

Cichorium intybusAlso called Italian chicory

Radicchio is a vegetable with edible leaves. Cooks grill, roast, or stuff the leaves and pair them with olive oil.

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

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

Category
Vegetables
Part used
Leaf
Family
Asteraceae
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
France
Radicchio, whole

Photo: CostaPPPR · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use radicchio

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Grill
  • Roast
  • Stuff

Cooking with it

Grilling or roasting softens its bitter, spicy taste.

Goes well with

Nutrition

What 100 g of radicchio holds

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

Protein 20%Fat 2%Carbohydrate 77%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of radicchio, raw
Energy26 kcal · 96 kJ
Protein1.3 g
Fat0.14 g
of which saturated0.06 g
Carbohydrate5 g
of which sugars2.2 g
Fibre2.1 g
Sodium8.1 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of radicchio, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium335 mg
Calcium31 mg
Iron0.4 mg
Magnesium13 mg
Zinc0.2 mg
Vitamin C6.2 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)1 µg
Folate117 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 168564, 2747664), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where radicchio is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses radicchio. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list radicchio among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. The 1400s · Italy

    Modern radicchio cultivation began in northern Italy in the fifteenth century.

On the table

Dishes made with radicchio

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Mesclun

    France

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: radicchio 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 radicchio is called

Names in 25 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    radicchio

  • French

    Radicchio

  • Italian

    radicchio

  • Portuguese

    Radicchio

  • German

    Radicchio

  • Dutch

    Roodlof · Radicchio rosso

  • Russian

    радиккьо · радиччио · итальянский цикорий · эскариол

  • Arabic

    الهندباء

  • Japanese

    ラディッキオ · 赤チコリー · トレビス

  • Korean

    라디키오

  • Indonesian

    Sawi merah

  • Basque

    Txikoria gorri

Show all 25 languages

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    радык’ё

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Radicchio

  • Catalan

    Radicchio

  • Danish

    radicchio

  • Egyptian Arabic

    هندباء

  • Esperanto

    salatcikorio

  • Finnish

    punasikuri · punasalaatti

  • Hungarian

    vörös cikória · radikkió

  • Macedonian

    Радич

  • Romanian

    radicchio · cicoare italiană

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Radiccio di Treviso

  • Slovenian

    radicchio

  • Swedish

    Rosensallat · rosésallat · radicchiosallad · radicchio

  • Venetian

    Radicio

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q767765

Photos

Photo: CostaPPPR · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons