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Radish

Raphanus sativusAlso called Raphanus sativus

Radish is a vegetable with a root that is crisp when raw. Cooks use it raw or as a garnish, and also roast or steam it. It pairs with table salt.

  • 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
Texture
Crisp
Cooked most in
Europe
Top country
France
Radish, whole

Photo: Hans Braxmeier · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use radish

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Garnish
  • Raw
  • Roast
  • Steam

Goes well with

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture, raw

  • Crisp

Shopping

Choosing and storing radish

Keeping it

  • Counter · whole2–3 days

Nutrition

What 100 g of radish holds

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

Protein 14%Fat 2%Carbohydrate 85%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of radish, raw
Energy20 kcal · 66 kJ
Protein0.66 g
Fat0.08 g
of which saturated0.03 g
Carbohydrate4.1 g
of which sugars2.6 g
Fibre1.3 g
Sodium51 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of radish, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium198 mg
Calcium22 mg
Magnesium8.9 mg
Zinc0.1 mg
Vitamin C18 mg
Folate63 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 169276, 2747665), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where radish is cooked

2 dishes in the catalogue use radish. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

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

Origins

First cultivated
in Asia

On the table

Dishes made with radish

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Pan-bagnat

    France

  • Niçard salad

    France

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: radish 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 radish is called

Names in 150 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    rábano · Raphanus sativus · rabano

  • French

    radis · radis rose · radis noir · radis botte

  • Italian

    ravanello · Raphanus sativus

  • Portuguese

    Rabanete · Raphanus sativus

  • German

    Garten-Rettich · Radieschen · Raphanus sativus · Rettich

  • Dutch

    radijs

  • Greek

    Ρεπάνι

  • Turkish

    Turp

  • Russian

    редис · Редька посевная · Редька огородная · Raphanus sativus

  • Polish

    rzodkiew zwyczajna

  • Arabic

    فجل · الفجل · فجل حريف

  • Persian

    ترب

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  • Achinese

    Mula

  • Albanian

    Rrepa

  • Amharic

    ፍጁል

  • Ancient Greek

    ῥάφανος · ῥαφανίς · ῥάδιξ

  • Aragonese

    Raphanus sativus

  • Asturian

    Raphanus sativus

  • Awadhi

    मुरई

  • azb

    قیرمیزی تورپ

  • Azerbaijani

    Qırmızı turp

  • Bangla

    মূলা

  • Bashkir

    Торма

  • Basque

    Errefau

  • Bavarian

    Radi

  • Belarusian

    рэдзька пасяўная · радыс

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    агародная рэдзька · пасяўная рэдзька

  • Bhojpuri

    मुरई

  • Bikol

    Labanos

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    Rabanete

  • Breton

    irvin-ruz

  • Bulgarian

    репичка · Raphanus sativus

  • Burmese

    မုန်လာဥ

  • Cantonese

    蘿蔔

  • Catalan

    rave · Raphanus sativus

  • cdo

    Chái-tàu

  • Cebuano

    Raphanus sativus

  • Central Kurdish

    توور

  • Chinese

    萝卜 · 枯萝卜 · 莱菔缨 · 地骷髅

  • Chuvash

    Пахчари йӳç кăшман

  • Corsican

    Radichju

  • Croatian

    Rotkvica

  • Czech

    ředkev setá · ředkvička

  • Danish

    Radise

  • eml

    Rómlasén

  • Erzya

    Ведема кшумань

  • Esperanto

    Kultiva rafano

  • Estonian

    aedrõigas · Raphanus sativus

  • Extremaduran

    Raphanus sativus

  • Filipino

    Labanos

  • Finnish

    retiisi · Raphanus sativus · ruokaretikka

  • Galician

    ravo

  • Georgian

    ბოლოკი

  • Goan Konkani

    Mullo

  • Haitian Creole

    Radi

  • Hakka Chinese

    Lò-phe̍t

  • Hebrew

    צנון

  • Hindi

    मूली

  • Hungarian

    retek · Raphanus sativus

  • Icelandic

    Hreðka

  • Ido

    Raphanus sativus

  • Iloko

    rabanos · Raphanus sativus

  • Inari Sami

    reetiis · Raphanus sativus

  • Indonesian

    Lobak

  • Interlingua

    Raphanus sativus

  • Interlingue

    Raphanus sativus

  • Irish

    raidis · Raphanus sativus

  • Japanese

    ダイコン · 大根 · ラディッシュ

  • Javanese

    Lobak

  • Kabardian

    Балыджэ

  • Kannada

    ಮೂಲಂಗಿ

  • Kara-Kalpak

    Rediska

  • Kashmiri

    مُج

  • Kashubian

    Radiska

  • Kazakh

    Шомыр

  • Kinyarwanda

    Radi

  • Komi

    Кушман

  • Korean

    무 · 무 (채소) · 무우

  • Korean (North Korea)

    무우

  • Kurdish

    Tivir

  • Kyrgyz

    Түрп

  • Latin

    Raphanus sativus

  • Latvian

    redīsi

  • Ligurian

    Raphanus raphanistrum subsp. sativus · ravanetto

  • Literary Chinese

    蘿蔔

  • Lithuanian

    Valgomasis ridikas

  • Lule Sami

    Raphanus sativus

  • Macedonian

    ротквичка · ротква · ротквица · рдоква

  • Malayalam

    മുള്ളങ്കി

  • Manchu

    ᠮᡠᡵᠰᠠ

  • Marathi

    मुळा

  • Mari

    Raphanus sativus

  • Mazanderani

    ترب

  • Min Nan Chinese

    Chhài-thâu

  • Minangkabau

    Lobak (umbi)

  • Mongolian

    Таримал манжин

  • nah

    Rāhuano

  • Navajo

    Akétłʼóól łichxííʼí yázhí

  • Northern Sami

    rettet · rettehas · redišša · Raphanus sativus

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    reddik · Raphanus sativus

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    reddik

  • Occitan

    Rafe

  • Odia

    ମୂଳା

  • Ossetic

    Булкъ

  • Pampanga

    Labanus

  • Pashto

    مولۍ

  • Punjabi

    ਮੂਲੀ

  • Quechua

    Rawanushcu

  • rmf

    Raphanus sativus

  • Romanian

    Ridiche

  • Samogitian

    Rėdėks

  • Sanskrit

    मूलकम्

  • Sardinian

    Ravanella

  • Scots

    Reefort

  • Serbian

    ротквица · Raphanus sativus

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    ротквица · Raphanus sativus

  • Serbian (Latin)

    Rotkvica

  • Shan

    ၽၵ်းပိုၵ်ႉ

  • Sicilian

    Raphanus sativus

  • Silesian

    Radiska

  • Simplified Chinese

    萝卜 · 白萝卜

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    萝卜

  • Sindhi

    ڳاڙهي موري

  • sjd

    Raphanus sativus

  • sje

    Raphanus sativus

  • sju

    Raphanus sativus

  • Skolt Sami

    Raphanus sativus

  • Slovak

    Reďkev siata

  • Slovenian

    vrtna redkev · redkvica · Raphanus sativus

  • Southern Sami

    Raphanus sativus

  • Sundanese

    Lobak

  • Swedish

    rädisa · Raphanus sativus

  • Swiss High German

    Radieschen

  • Tajik

    Турб

  • Tamil

    முள்ளங்கி

  • Tatar

    Редис

  • Telugu

    ముల్లంగి

  • Thai

    ราดิช (พืช)

  • Tibetan

    ལ་ཕུག

  • Tongan

    Lētisifoha

  • Tornedalen Finnish

    Raphanus sativus

  • Traditional Chinese

    蘿蔔

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    蘿蔔

  • Tunisian Arabic (Arabic)

    فجل

  • Tuvinian

    Турма

  • Ukrainian

    редька

  • Upper Sorbian

    Radiska

  • Urdu

    لال مولی

  • Uzbek

    Turp

  • Veps

    Ret'k

  • Vietnamese

    Cải củ

  • Volapük

    Raphanus sativus

  • Walloon

    Rådisse

  • Waray

    Raphanus sativus

  • Welsh

    Rhuddygl y gerddi

  • Western Panjabi

    مولی

  • Wu Chinese

    萝卜

  • Yiddish

    רעטעך

  • Zhuang

    lauxbaeg

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q7224565

Photos

Photo: Hans Braxmeier · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons