Baby leaves

A lot of veggies can be used as baby leaves although their traditional use is cooking, especially at this time of revival and discovery of old and new tastes.
Alongside species like rocket, obtained for this market segment, there are others that can improve the nutrient content and enhance the selection of fresh salad.

Swisschard and cabbage are two of them.
About chard, Sais proposes two varieties Candida and Erbette-Romagna.
Candida is a plant with dark green leaves and white chards while Erbette-Romagna has paler leaves with green chards. Both varieties must be cultivated with high planting density and cutting leaves at 12-15 cm. Usually only the first cutting is utilized due to provide high quality production.
Rhubarb chard completes the Sais chard proposal for baby leaves market. The dark green colour of leaves and bright pink chard give a dash colour .

Rhubarb chard

Regarding cabbage, variety Cavolo Nero di Toscana provides  significant increase of nutrient content thanks to high level of vitamin K, A, C, falvonoids, carotenoids and iron.

Cavolo nero di Toscana

As far as concern the traditional species used in ready- prepared fresh salad, Sais proposes wild rocket with jagged leaves – Giuditta; strong plant with good tolerance to bolting. Finely and jagged leaves, dark green colour, very aromatic and bitter.

Selvatica a foglia frastagliata- Giuditta