Question

What does a rutabaga taste like?

Answer 1

A rutabaga has a taste sort of like a turnip but they are more sweeter tasting and buttery tasting than a regular turnip is.

The rutabaga in my opinion tastes much better than a turnip although rutabagas are related to turnips.

You can eat sprouted rutabaga.

Although rutabaga tastes the best when it's eaten before it has sprouted the sprouted rutabaga is safe for eating and will not harm you.

You can remove the sprouted parts or eat them as even the sprouts of the rutabaga are completely edible.

Also you can eat raw rutabaga.

In fact eating raw rutabaga provides you the most health benefits because when you cook rutabaga you kill off some of the nutrients in the rutabaga so you get more nutrients and are healthier when you eat the rutabaga raw.

The rutabaga is edible both raw and cooked and you still get some of the health benefits from cooked or steamed rutabaga but it's healthiest when eaten raw.

Rutabagas are very good for you and your health.

When you eat rutabagas you are improving your health and you may even live longer and healthier when you eat rutabagas as well as other healthy fruits and vegetables.

The rutabaga is a heart healthy vegetable and helps keep your heart healthy and strong which can prevent heart disease, heart attacks, strokes etc.

A rutabaga is packed full of fiber, vitamins, and antioxidants which are all essential to optimal health and the fiber helps you poop and keeps you from becoming constipated as well.

Not only are rutabagas good for your health they are good for weight loss as well because they keep you feeling full while reducing your calorie intake which means you can eat and not be hungry but still lose weight because you won't be consuming those calories that you need to burn off.

Rutabagas are healthiest when raw but they are healthy when cooked.

Answer 2

It really resembles a turnip, sometimes I even replace it with rutabaga :D

Answer 3

The rutabaga is similar to turnips in taste.

Rutabaga are also called Swede.

Rutabaga or swede is a root vegetable, a form of Brassica napus.

Other names include Swedish turnip, neep, and turnip – however, elsewhere the name "turnip" usually refers to the related white turnip.

The species Brassica napus originated as a hybrid between the cabbage and the turnip.

Swedes and Turnips do come from the same family.

Swede is a Swedish turnip, hence the name “swede”.

They are bigger, tougher skinned, yellow fleshed and much hardier than a turnip.

Turnips are the smaller ones, with smoother skin and white flesh.