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Turnip

Also called neep

Turnip is a vegetable with a tender root. Cooks boil or simmer it.

  • Plant-based

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

Category
Vegetables
Part used
Root
Texture
Tender
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
Indonesia
Turnip, whole

Photo: thebittenword.com · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use turnip

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Boil simmer

Cooking with it

Cooking makes the root's pungent flavor milder.

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

  • Tender

Nutrition

What 100 g of turnip holds

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

Protein 11%Fat 1%Carbohydrate 87%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of turnip, raw
Energy34 kcal · 117 kJ
Protein0.95 g
Fat0.12 g
of which saturated0.01 g
Carbohydrate7.3 g
of which sugars5.1 g
Fibre1.9 g
Sodium13 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of turnip, raw: minerals and vitamins
Potassium262 mg
Calcium33 mg
Magnesium10 mg
Zinc0.16 mg
Vitamin C27 mg
Folate60 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (foods 170465, 2747674), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where turnip is cooked

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

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

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

Origins

First cultivated
in Central Asia

  1. ../0700 · Japan

    Turnips had reached Japan by 700 CE.

On the table

Dishes made with turnip

2 dishes in the catalogue use it.

  • Asinan Bogor

    Indonesia

  • Stuffed Turnips

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

Good to know

Diet and allergens: turnip 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: eggs, fish, milk, molluscs, sulphites, crustaceans.
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.
Alcohol
None
Pork
None

Around the world

What turnip is called

Names in 99 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    nabo · Brassica rapa rapa mado · rábano blanco · berza

  • French

    navet

  • Italian

    rapa

  • Portuguese

    nabo

  • German

    Speiserübe · Rübe

  • Dutch

    knolraap · raap · meiraap · meiknolletje

  • Greek

    ρέβα

  • Turkish

    şalgam

  • Russian

    репа · репа (овощ) · турнепс · кормовая репа

  • Polish

    rzepa

  • Arabic

    لفت · شلغم · شلجم (نبات) · اللفت

  • Persian

    شلغم

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  • Afrikaans

    raap

  • Armenian

    շաղգամ

  • Asturian

    Brassica rapa subsp. rapa · nabu

  • azb

    شلغم

  • Azerbaijani

    şalğam

  • Bangla

    শালগম

  • Basque

    arbi

  • Belarusian

    турнэпс

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    турнэпс

  • Bhojpuri

    शलजम

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    nabo

  • Breton

    irvin

  • Bulgarian

    ряпа

  • Cantonese

    蕪菁

  • Catalan

    nap

  • cdo

    duâi-tàu-chái

  • Central Kurdish

    شێلم

  • Chinese

    芜菁 · 蔓菁

  • Corsican

    navonu

  • Croatian

    repa

  • Czech

    vodnice

  • Danish

    majroe

  • Esperanto

    Rapo · napo

  • Estonian

    naeris

  • Filipino

    puting singkamas

  • Finnish

    nauris

  • Galician

    Nabo

  • Georgian

    ტურნეფსი

  • Gujarati

    સલગમ

  • Haitian Creole

    Navè

  • Hebrew

    לפת

  • Hindi

    शलजम

  • Hungarian

    tarlórépa

  • Icelandic

    næpa

  • Ido

    napo

  • Inari Sami

    naavrâš

  • Indonesian

    brassica rapa rapa

  • Irish

    tornapa

  • Japanese

    カブ · 蕪

  • Kabyle

    adgir

  • Kannada

    ಟರ್ನಿಪ್

  • Kashmiri

    گۄگٕج

  • Korean

    순무

  • Kyrgyz

    турнепс

  • Latin

    Rapa (holus)

  • Latvian

    turnepsis · lopbarības rācenis

  • Literary Chinese

    蔓菁

  • Lithuanian

    ropė

  • Luxembourgish

    Navet · Ribb

  • Macedonian

    репа · репка

  • Malay

    turnip

  • Malayalam

    മധുരമുള്ളങ്കി

  • Manchu

    ᠮᡝᠨᠵᡳ

  • Manx

    napin

  • Mazanderani

    شلم

  • Navajo

    niłtsínii bikétłʼóól dijoolí

  • Nepali

    सलगम

  • Northern Sami

    návrraš

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    vanlig nepe · nepe

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    nepe

  • Occitan

    nap

  • olo

    nagris

  • Ossetic

    фосы булкъ

  • Pashto

    شلغم

  • Piedmontese

    Rava

  • Punjabi

    ਸ਼ਲਗਮ

  • Romanian

    nap

  • Samogitian

    ruopė

  • Scots

    Neep

  • Serbian

    turnip

  • Simplified Chinese

    芜菁 · 蔓菁

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    芜菁

  • Sindhi

    گوگڻو

  • Skolt Sami

    naaurâs

  • Slovenian

    repa

  • Swedish

    majrova

  • Swiss High German

    Speiserübe

  • Tamil

    சிகப்பு முள்ளங்கி

  • Thai

    เทอร์นิป

  • Tibetan

    ཉུང་མ།

  • Traditional Chinese

    蕪菁 · 蔓菁

  • Udmurt

    турнес · турнепс · пудосюдонкушман

  • Ukrainian

    турнепс

  • Urdu

    شلغم

  • Uyghur

    چامغۇر

  • Uzbek

    sholg'om · sholg'om (sabzavot)

  • Venetian

    rava

  • Vietnamese

    cải củ turnip

  • Walloon

    Navea

  • Welsh

    erfinen

  • Western Panjabi

    گونگلو

  • Wu Chinese

    芜菁

  • Yiddish

    ברוקווע

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q3916957

Photos

Photo: thebittenword.com · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons