Arugula
Eruca vesicaria
Rocket. A peppery cool-season salad brassica. Flowers are edible. Heat makes it extra hot and then it bolts.
GROW → HARVEST → EAT → DRY → POWDER → CAPSULE → GUMMY — forms are not equivalent. Food first.
Identity
Also called: rocket, rucola
What it is
Rocket. A peppery cool-season salad brassica. Flowers are edible. Heat makes it extra hot and then it bolts.
From the existing encyclopedia
As an everyday ingredient, Arugula anchors meals that balance plants, proteins, and spices without needing a supplement label.
Edible portions
- leaves
- flowers
Absence of a portion from this list means it is not treated as food here — not that every other part is toxic.
Growing
- Climate. Cool-season
- Light. Full sun to light shade
- Soil. Average, even moisture
- Planting. Successions. Fast.
- Harvest. Baby leaves; whole plants at bolt for a last cut.
Preparation and culinary uses
- Salad, pizza after baking, pesto
Nutrition and compounds
- Vitamins (qualitative, well-known associations). vitamin K, vitamin A — not milligram values.
AAA interpretation Food first. These associations explain why a plant shows up in a nutrient conversation — they are not a supplement shopping list.
Next steps
Sources
- USDA PLANTS Database — taxonomy and range (verify current entries)
- USDA FoodData Central — nutrient profiles for foods (verify current entries; this page does not invent milligrams)
- State cooperative extension growing guides — verify for your region
- Integrated from the existing aaaLifetime / quantum-biohack encyclopedia corpus (unique text preserved where it was not boilerplate).
Honest incompleteness is preferred to fabricated completeness. If a section is missing, no record for it is attached here — not a claim that the plant lacks that characteristic, and not that it was omitted as a secret.
Internal quality class A. Strong page: distinctive plant facts plus practical growing or kitchen use.