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Rutabaga

Brassica napus rapiferaAlso called turnip, swede, Brassica campestris var. napobrassica and neep

Rutabaga is a root vegetable. It can be eaten raw, baked, boiled, simmered, grilled, roasted, or stewed, and paired with potato, carrot, or butter.

  • 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
Rutabaga, whole

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In the kitchen

How to use rutabaga

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Bake
  • Boil simmer
  • Grill
  • Raw
  • Roast
  • Stew

Preparing it

For a raw salad, cut the rutabaga into thin matchsticks.

Goes well with

Nutrition

What 100 g of rutabaga holds

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

Protein 9%Fat 2%Carbohydrate 89%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of rutabaga, raw
Energy37 kcal · 157 kJ
Protein0.89 g
Fat0.16 g
of which saturated0.03 g
Carbohydrate8.6 g
of which sugars6 g
Fibre2.9 g
Sodium4.6 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of rutabaga, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium267 mg
Calcium42 mg
Iron0.14 mg
Magnesium15 mg
Zinc0.21 mg
Vitamin C25 mg
Folate21 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 168454, 2727580), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where rutabaga is cooked

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

Origins

  1. About 1750 · Germany and United Kingdom

    One account dates its arrival in England from Germany to around 1750.

  2. About 1781 · Sweden and United Kingdom

    It reached Scotland via Sweden around 1781.

  3. 1790 · United Kingdom

    One account suggests it was introduced more widely in England in 1790.

  4. 1817 · United States

    Crops were reported in Illinois by 1817.

On the table

Dishes made with rutabaga

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

  • Mashed swede

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: rutabaga 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 rutabaga is called

Names in 80 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    Brassica napobrassica · Navicol · Brassica napus subsp. napobrassica · Brassica napus subsp napobrassica

  • French

    rutabaga · Routabaga · Brassica napus var. napobrassica · chou-navet

  • Italian

    rutabaga · navone

  • Portuguese

    Rutabaga

  • German

    Steckrübe · Ramanken · Wrucke · Bodenkohlrabi

  • Dutch

    koolraap · Brassica napobrassica

  • Greek

    γουλί

  • Turkish

    Rutabaga

  • Russian

    брюква · Brassica napobrassica · калега

  • Polish

    brukiew · karpiel

  • Arabic

    لفت سويدي

  • Persian

    شلغم زرد

Show all 80 languages

  • Albanian

    Brassica napus rapifera

  • Armenian

    գոնգեղ

  • Asturian

    Brassica napobrassica

  • Basque

    Arbi-aza

  • Belarusian

    бручка · Brassica napus rapifеra · Brassica napobrassica

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    бручка

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    nabo

  • Breton

    Irvin-saoz

  • Bulgarian

    брюква · Жълта ряпа · Brassica napobrassica · Brassica napus subsp. rapifera

  • Cantonese

    瑞典大頭菜

  • Catalan

    colinap · Brassica oleracea var. napobrassica · Rutabaga · Brassica napobrassica

  • Cebuano

    Brassica napus rapifera

  • Cheyenne

    Heóvemo'ôhta'e

  • Chinese

    蕪菁甘藍 · 瑞典蕪菁 · 芜菁甘蓝 · 蔓菁甘蓝

  • Chuvash

    Тутлă кăшман

  • Croatian

    Hibridna repa

  • Czech

    tuřín · Brassica napus subsp. napobrassica · Brassica napus var. napobrassica · Kolník

  • Danish

    Kålroe · Kålrabi

  • Egyptian Arabic

    لفت سويدى

  • Esperanto

    Napo

  • Estonian

    kaalikas · Brassica napus napobrassica

  • Filipino

    Rutabaga · Yellow-turnip · Navicol · Turnip of Sweden

  • Finnish

    lanttu · Brassica napus · Brassica napus subsp. rapifera · räätikkä

  • Galician

    Rutabaga

  • Haitian Creole

    Rutabaga

  • Hebrew

    לפת

  • Hungarian

    karórépa

  • Icelandic

    Gulrófa · Brassica napobrassica

  • Indonesian

    Rutabaga

  • Irish

    svaeid

  • Japanese

    ルタバガ · カブハボタン

  • Kashubian

    Wrëk

  • Kazakh

    Асханалық тарна

  • Komi

    Галанка · Brassica napobrassica

  • Korean

    루타바가

  • Kurdish

    Şêlim · ŞÊLIM

  • Kurdish (Arabic)

    شێلم

  • Kurdish (Latin)

    Şêlim

  • Latin

    Brassica napus subsp. rapifera

  • Latvian

    kālis · kāļi

  • Lithuanian

    Griežtis

  • Luxembourgish

    Äerdkolrab · Äerdkolraf · Brassica napus subsp. rapifera

  • Macedonian

    бросква · жолто цвекло

  • Malayalam

    റുട്ടബാഗ

  • Mongolian

    Манжин

  • Navajo

    Tséyaa hataałí · Tséyaa hataał

  • Northern Frisian

    Steegrööw

  • Norwegian

    kålrot · kålrabi

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    kålrot · Brassica napus rapifera · kålrabi · Brassica napus

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    kålrot · Kålrabi · Brassica napus var. napobrassica · Brassica napobrassica

  • Ossetic

    Урс къуымбыл

  • Picard

    Chounavioe · Patagå · Brassica napus var. napobrassica · Tabagå

  • rmf

    paalengiero

  • Romanian

    Brassica napus subsp. rapifera

  • Samogitian

    Sietėnis

  • Saterland Frisian

    Stäkräiwe

  • Scots

    neep · Swade

  • Scottish Gaelic

    snèap

  • Serbian

    Podzemna koraba

  • Simplified Chinese

    芜菁甘蓝

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    芜菁甘蓝

  • Simplified Chinese (Singapore)

    芜菁甘蓝

  • Slovak

    Kapusta repková kvaková

  • Slovenian

    rumena koleraba · Brassica napus subsp. rapifera · kavla · kavlja*

  • Swedish

    kålrot · Brassica napus. Napobrassica-gruppen · Brassica napus var. napobrassica · rotabagge

  • Tamil

    வெண் நூல்கோல்

  • Tatar

    Бүкән шалкан · гәрәнкә · кәлигә

  • Traditional Chinese

    蕪菁甘藍

  • Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)

    蕪菁甘藍

  • Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)

    蕪菁甘藍

  • Tuvinian

    Брюква

  • Ukrainian

    Бруква · Brassica napobrassica

  • Upper Sorbian

    Kulirěpa · Prawa kulirěpa

  • Uzbek

    Bryukva

  • Vietnamese

    Cải củ Thụy Điển · Củ cải Thụy Điển

  • Võro

    Kaal (aidvili)

  • Waray

    Brassica napus rapifera

  • Wu Chinese

    芜菁甘蓝

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q158464

Photos

Photo: pin add · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons