Is there any point to celery ?

Why does anyone buy or grow it ?

Tastes great on its own cold, a treat with peanut paste cooked with tomatoes half'n half, volume wise noice. Add to soups. Celery soup add a bit of onion. Add whole bunch, leaves an all to stews. Good to nibble on without gaing a lot of weight

Grow it and use it in soups and stocks.

Risotto! Celery was invented to go in risotto...

I guess because without it, you would have nothing worth posting. Ummmmmm, not worth posting.

celery juice lowers blood pressure

Woolies sell it

1 x bunch $2.75
1/2 x bunch $1.75
1 stick/piece $2.50 ??????????????? WTHeck

I grow it in a large tub....
let it die off and then if watered..it comes up again....
never need much but always have it on hand

The most disgusting food I have ever tasted. It should be banned.

Celery - Hate it, it makes my teeth squeak.

I think what Carantoc might be asking is does it have any nutritional value?

slammin said..

Tastes like dirt.

Likewise nice with peanut butter!

You are a dirt gormet or somefin eh

Wanga F One said..

I think what Carantoc might be asking is does it have any nutritional value?

It takes more energy to chew it than it provides. (may not be actually unfactual, not)

evlPanda said..

It takes more energy to chew it than it provides. (may not be actually unfactual, not)

is that a triple negative!?

Without something that tastes bad, how would you know what tastes good

felixdcat said...
Tastes like grass, looks loke grass, green like grass................. can you smoke it??? even the worms in my farm wont touch it! Horrible stuff! makes peanut butter or anything you may dip it in taste bad!

You must be doing it wrong.

Stuthepirate said..

evlPanda said..

It takes more energy to chew it than it provides. (may not be actually unfactual, not)

is that a triple negative!?

The reason you don't get much calorific value out of celery is because it is mostly made up of cellulose which is a polysaccharide we cannot digest. In fact, there are very few animals that can digest cellulose and those that can (like termites) require a symbiotic relationship with very specific bacteria to do so.

So it's not so much that it takes more energy to chew or anything like that. You simply get nothing out of it. Your body extracts the water and excretes everything else. That's not to say there are not any benefits from eating it. It makes for great roughage.