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A heap of boiled turnip greens

Turnip greens, cooked

Checked by us One serving: 85 g (about ⅔ cup chopped) · 17 kcal

Lots of vitamin K1, vitamin A and vitamin C. Rich in 1 more nutrient: see Good for.

Nothing to watch for most people so far.

On warfarin? Keep your vitamin K steady. Worth knowing for some people: uncooked frozen vegetables.

Good for

How we counted this

What one serving (85 g) gives you.

Your body needs enough of each of these. Past enough, more doesn’t help. Amounts are what the food databases list, not what your body absorbs, unless a row says it was measured.

The words: “A lot” means one serving gives 20% or more of Health Canada’s daily amount, “Some” 10% to 19%, “A little” 2% to 9%, “Almost none” under 2%. Strongest word first; within a word, protein and fibre lead, then the biggest share.

A milligram (mg) is a thousandth of a gram, and a microgram (µg) a thousandth of a milligram: 1,000 µg make 1 mg.

18 more nutrients below “a lot”

Watch out

How we counted this
  • Cadmium

    Nothing to watch

    You’d need about 3.2 servings a day, every day, of this food alone to use up what an average adult’s intake leaves under the limit.

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    One serving carries 2.3 µg

    How we got this

    A serving a day adds 13% to what an average adult already takes in: a share of that intake, not of the limit. With that serving every day, an average adult would be at about 80% of the limit.

    An average adult already takes in about 71% of the limit. One serving a day fits in the room left.

    Counted from zero, with no allowance for what adults already take in from other food, 6,500 g a week would reach the limit.

    Why this rating: Eating it daily comes to 595 g a week, which stays within the 1,900 g of room left before the limit.

    The dataset’s rating: Nothing to watch: under the limit

    A daily serving adds 13% to an average adult's cadmium intake (EFSA 2012 adult median, 1.77 µg/kg body weight/week; Canadian adults in 2007: 1.2-1.75), far from doubling it, so no cap.

    US FDA, Total Diet Study FY2018–FY2020 Elements Report Supplement · grade B

    Every food with cadmium

Checked for lead: fine at normal amounts.
  • Lead

    Nothing to watch

    You’d need more than 100 servings a day, every day, of this food alone to double the lead an average adult already gets. No dose is known to be safe, so doubling is where we flag.

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    A serving a day adds 0.3% to what an average adult already takes in. There is no limit to take a share of.

    One serving carries 0.09 µg

    How we got this

    The dataset’s rating: Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake

    Lower bound 1.1, upper bound about 4.2 µg/kg (the upper bound worked out by Foodtopsy: 1.1 + 21/27 x the 4 µg/kg reporting limit); adds 0.3-1.0% to EFSA's average adult intake (35 µg/day at 70 kg), so no cap. 78% of samples were below detection, so both bounds are shown.

    US FDA, Total Diet Study FY2018–FY2020 Elements Report Supplement · grade B

    Every food with lead

For some people

  • Health Canada: most frozen packaged vegetables need to be cooked; PHAC lists uncooked frozen packaged vegetables among higher-risk foods for listeriosis, naming people with weakened immune systems, adults 60 and over, and pregnant people as most at risk

  • For people on warfarin, as the label puts it: keep vitamin K intake consistent, not avoid. Listed vitamin K: SR Legacy 170466 boiled 367.6 µg/100 g, about 312 µg per 85 g (a calculated value with no data points); raw 251 µg/100 g (SR 170061); frozen boiled 518.9 µg/100 g (SR 170469).

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    Eat a steady amount, not none. This line goes on every food whose serving gives 10% or more of the daily vitamin K; a few foods below that carry it too, where a source names them. One serving here has about 312 µg of vitamin K1.

Worth knowing

No limit applies, so none is rated.

  • Sugar

    0.5 g of sugar in a 85 g serving, natural and added together.

    Learn more

    Shown, not rated. The food tables we read give total sugar, and few give added sugar, so the site can’t yet tell sugar added in making a food from the sugar in fruit or milk.

Also checked (nothing to act on) · 2

Noted for context, or not measured in this food yet.

  • Shown as context: no agency basis exists for goitrogens, so nothing is rated. Boiling lowers glucosinolates (not measured here).

  • Not measured in this food yet. Not rated: nitrate is shown as context, never scored, and there is no measured figure for turnip greens; none is borrowed from kale or Chinese cabbage.

Better options

How we counted this

“Better” here always means better at something the row names: more of one nutrient, more nutrients per serving, or the goal you pick. It never means better in every way.

Every amount below is for the same weight, 85 g, the size of one serving of this food, so a swap compares like with like. A serving of another food can be bigger or smaller.

Compared with the other vegetables we’ve checked.

A food is listed only if it gives clearly more: at least a fifth more than this food, and at least 10% of the daily amount more.

More of what it’s good for

More vitamin A

  • Carrots, raw710 µg in 85 g (this food: 324 µg) · but less vitamin K1 and vitamin C

More vitamin C

  • Red pepper, raw109 mg in 85 g (this food: 23.3 mg) · but less vitamin K1 and vitamin A
  • Green pepper, raw84.6 mg in 85 g (this food: 23.3 mg) · but less vitamin K1 and vitamin A

Amounts as listed, not adjusted for how much gets in.

For vitamin K1: Mustard greens, cooked would lead, in the same 85 g, but is left out (not tested for contaminants yet).

Spinach, cooked would lead this list, but it’s left out (Cadmium: go easy · lots of oxalate, more than its own calcium can bind).

Your goal

Your goal changes only this list, not what the food gives you or what to watch.

Losing weight: fewer calories, and more nutrients, protein and fibre for each calorie.

Spinach, cooked would lead this list, but it’s left out (Cadmium: go easy · lots of oxalate, more than its own calcium can bind).

Why some foods aren’t suggested

Left out: Mustard greens, cooked (not tested for contaminants yet).

Left out: Spinach, cooked (Cadmium: go easy · lots of oxalate, more than its own calcium can bind).

Left out: Edamame, cooked (not tested for contaminants yet).

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The numbers

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Name in the database: Turnip greens, cooked

How the serving was set: 85 g (Health Canada V.1, vegetables without sauce; '85 g fresh or frozen')

Listed nutrients, per 100 g

For each nutrient, the value this page uses is marked “used”. A row marked “second database” is another database’s figure for a matching food, kept so you can see how far databases disagree (they can differ in the samples analysed, lab methods and rounding). Its own cells are worked out from it, but none of the page’s words or scores are.

NutrientPer servingPer 100 caloriesHowSourceGrade
Omega-3: ALA0.064 g0.05 g0.32 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Calcium137 mg116.45 mg685 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
98 mg83.3 mg490 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
137 mg116.45 mg685 mgcopy of USDA · not usedCanadian Nutrient File 2026 #2264C
Carbohydrate4.36 g3.71 g21.8 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Choline0.3 mg0.26 mg1.5 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Energy20 kcal17 kcal–FDC Energy (kcal) usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy)–
Omega-3: EPA + DHA0 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Fat0.23 g0.2 g1.15 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Cholesterol0 mg0 mg0 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Fatty acids, total saturated0.053 g0.05 g0.27 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Fibre3.5 g2.98 g17.5 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Folate118 µg100.3 µg590 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
120 µg102 µg600 µgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Iron0.8 mg0.68 mg4 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
3.1 mg2.64 mg15.5 mgsecond database · not used · 3.9×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Magnesium22 mg18.7 mg110 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
10 mg8.5 mg50 mgsecond database · not used · 2.2×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Niacin (B3, niacin equivalents)0.744 mg0.63 mg3.72 mglisted usedCanadian Nutrient File 2026 #2264C
Phosphorus29 mg24.65 mg145 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
45 mg38.25 mg225 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Potassium203 mg172.55 mg1,015 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
78 mg66.3 mg390 mgsecond database · not used · 2.6×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Protein1.14 g0.97 g5.7 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
2.7 g2.3 g13.5 gsecond database · not used · 2.4×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Riboflavin (B2)0.072 mg0.06 mg0.36 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
0.2 mg0.17 mg1 mgsecond database · not used · 2.8×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Selenium0.9 µg0.77 µg4.5 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Sodium29 mg24.65 mg145 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
7 mg5.95 mg35 mgsecond database · not used · 4.1×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Sugars0.53 g0.45 g2.65 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
0.1 g0.09 g0.5 gsecond database · not used · 5.3×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Thiamin (B1)0.045 mg0.04 mg0.23 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
0.06 mg0.05 mg0.3 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Vitamin A381 µg323.85 µg1,905 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Vitamin B120 µg0 µg0 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
0 µg0 µg0 µgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Vitamin B60.18 mg0.15 mg0.9 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
0.18 mg0.15 mg0.9 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Vitamin C27.4 mg23.29 mg137 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
40 mg34 mg200 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Vitamin D0 µg0 µg0 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
0 µg0 µg0 µgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Vitamin E1.88 mg1.6 mg9.4 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
2.87 mg2.44 mg14.35 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Vitamin K1367.6 µg312.46 µg1,838 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Water93.2 g79.22 g466 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
92.8 g78.88 g464 gsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Zinc0.14 mg0.12 mg0.7 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
0.4 mg0.34 mg2 mgsecond database · not used · 2.9×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
NutrientPer 100 gPer servingPer 100 caloriesHowSourceGrade
Beta-carotene4,575 µg3,888.75 µg22,875 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
6,000 µg5,100 µg30,000 µgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Copper0.253 mg0.22 mg1.27 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
0.09 mg0.08 mg0.45 mgsecond database · not used · 2.8×UK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Ash1.07 g0.91 g5.35 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Alcohol, ethyl0 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Caffeine0 mg0 mg0 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Theobromine0 mg0 mg0 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Energy84 kj71.4 kj420 kjlisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Vitamin A, IU7,625 iu6,481.25 iu38,125 iulisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Carotene, alpha0 µg0 µg0 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Vitamin D (D2 + D3), International Units0 iu0 iu0 iulisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Cryptoxanthin, beta0 µg0 µg0 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Lycopene0 µg0 µg0 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Folic acid0 µg0 µg0 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Folate, food118 µg100.3 µg590 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Folate, DFE118 µg100.3 µg590 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Tryptophan0.02 g0.02 g0.1 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Threonine0.063 g0.05 g0.32 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Isoleucine0.059 g0.05 g0.3 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Leucine0.105 g0.09 g0.53 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Lysine0.074 g0.06 g0.37 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Methionine0.026 g0.02 g0.13 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Cystine0.013 g0.01 g0.07 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Phenylalanine0.07 g0.06 g0.35 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Tyrosine0.044 g0.04 g0.22 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Valine0.078 g0.07 g0.39 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Arginine0.072 g0.06 g0.36 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Histidine0.028 g0.02 g0.14 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Alanine0.078 g0.07 g0.39 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Aspartic acid0.121 g0.1 g0.61 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Glutamic acid0.156 g0.13 g0.78 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Glycine0.069 g0.06 g0.35 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Proline0.054 g0.05 g0.27 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Serine0.047 g0.04 g0.24 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Vitamin E, added0 mg0 mg0 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Vitamin B-12, added0 µg0 µg0 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Fatty acids, total trans0 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
SFA 4:00 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
SFA 6:00 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
SFA 8:00.001 g0 g0.01 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
SFA 10:00.001 g0 g0.01 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
SFA 12:00.001 g0 g0.01 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
SFA 14:00.002 g0 g0.01 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
SFA 16:00.041 g0.03 g0.21 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
SFA 18:00.007 g0.01 g0.04 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
MUFA 18:10.004 g0 g0.02 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
PUFA 18:20.028 g0.02 g0.14 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
PUFA 18:30.064 g0.05 g0.32 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
PUFA 20:40 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
PUFA 22:6 n-3 (DHA)0 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
MUFA 16:10.011 g0.01 g0.05 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
PUFA 18:40 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
MUFA 20:10 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
PUFA 20:5 n-3 (EPA)0 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
MUFA 22:10 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
PUFA 22:5 n-3 (DPA)0 g0 g0 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Fatty acids, total monounsaturated0.015 g0.01 g0.08 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated0.091 g0.08 g0.45 glisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Lutein + zeaxanthin8,440 µg7,174 µg42,200 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Manganese0.337 mg0.29 mg1.69 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
Niacin (B3, preformed)0.411 mg0.35 mg2.05 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
0.5 mg0.43 mg2.5 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Pantothenic acid (B5)0.274 mg0.23 mg1.37 mglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
0.27 mg0.23 mg1.35 mgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C
Retinol0 µg0 µg0 µglisted usedUS food database (USDA SR Legacy) #170466C
0 µg0 µg0 µgsecond database · not usedUK food tables (CoFID 2021) #13-392C

Change the amount to rescale the first column. Nutrients a database doesn't list are missing, not zero.

Hazard rows as the dataset rates them

  • Cadmium · Nothing to watch: under the limit · A daily serving adds 13% to an average adult's cadmium intake (EFSA 2012 adult median, 1.77 µg/kg body weight/week; Canadian adults in 2007: 1.2-1.75), far from doubling it, so no cap. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · B
  • Goitrogens (glucosinolates) · Context · Shown as context: no agency basis exists for goitrogens, so nothing is rated. Boiling lowers glucosinolates (not measured here). · PubMed 35159500 · B
  • Lead · Nothing to watch: doesn’t double average intake · Lower bound 1.1, upper bound about 4.2 µg/kg (the upper bound worked out by Foodtopsy: 1.1 + 21/27 x the 4 µg/kg reporting limit); adds 0.3-1.0% to EFSA's average adult intake (35 µg/day at 70 kg), so no cap. 78% of samples were below detection, so both bounds are shown. · US FDA Total Diet Study (2018–2020) · B
  • Nitrate · Not rated yet · Not rated: nitrate is shown as context, never scored, and there is no measured figure for turnip greens; none is borrowed from kale or Chinese cabbage. · EFSA 2008
  • Uncooked frozen vegetables · Worth knowing · Health Canada: most frozen packaged vegetables need to be cooked; PHAC lists uncooked frozen packaged vegetables among higher-risk foods for listeriosis, naming people with weakened immune systems, adults 60 and over, and pregnant people as most at risk · Health Canada, Produce safety · A
  • Vitamin K and warfarin · Worth knowing · For people on warfarin, as the label puts it: keep vitamin K intake consistent, not avoid. Listed vitamin K: SR Legacy 170466 boiled 367.6 µg/100 g, about 312 µg per 85 g (a calculated value with no data points); raw 251 µg/100 g (SR 170061); frozen boiled 518.9 µg/100 g (SR 170469). · FDA 2017 · A

Sources

Body map 2026-10-25.1: each nutrient’s job comes from an agency fact sheet, linked beside it under Good for.

The plain words: “a lot” means one serving (100 g when the food has no serving size) gives at least 20% of the daily amount (the reference intake), “some” at least 10%, “a little” at least 2% (the cut-offs are ours, one set for every page: 20% and 10% are borrowed from the US labelling terms “high” and “good source” and applied to Health Canada’s daily amount, whereas Health Canada’s own shopper rule says 15%; provisional: they may change in a later method version). The daily amount is Health Canada’s Dietary Reference Intake for adults 19–30; where men and women need different amounts we use the higher one (protein: 56 g for men, 46 g for women). The percentage printed under each nutrient is the printed amount as a share of that daily amount, rounded to the nearest whole number, and the word is read from that percentage, so the amount, the percentage and the word always agree. Calcium with a measured absorption is scaled by how well it gets in compared with milk.

The scale: “Nothing to watch” means a serving a day stays under the limit at ordinary amounts; “Go easy” means a serving a day can push past the limit for adults who already take in the most, or fewer than 2 servings reach it; “Limit it” means once a week or less. The dataset’s own rating is under “How we got this”. Provisional: the scale may change in a later method version.

Measured absorption under Good for: grade-A studies in adults that tested this preparation of this food, as a share of the listed amount (the share digested, for protein), quoted once each source has passed our evidence check; animal studies and other variants stay in the table above. Provisional: this screen may change in a later method version.