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The Colorful Cauliflower Story

Colorful Harvest was one of the first companies to grow colored cauliflower in 2004. But the story of colored cauliflower began long before that.

The first orange cauliflower was found in the Bradford Marsh in Canada in 1970. It was smaller than its white cauliflower cousin, but the unusual color made it interesting to plant breeders. Through successive generations of traditional crossbreeding with other varieties of cauliflower by Mr. Michael Dickson of Cornell University, a variety of larger and more flavorful orange cauliflower came to be.

Besides the attractive color, the new variety of cauliflower was found to have important nutrients at levels many times higher than its ordinary white cousin.

Over the years plant breeders used similar, traditional techniques to develop the purple and green cauliflower varieties that our customers enjoy today; each with its own unique nutritional profile, and mild, nutty flavors.


Cauliflower Nutrition Facts

Studies suggest that a diet rich in brightly colored fruits and vegetables can have important health benefits.

Orange cauliflower contains 320 micrograms of betacarotene per 100 grams, or approximately 25 times more vitamin A than white cauliflower. In 1988, food scientist Cy Lee published his findings: orange cauliflower had 54 retinol equivalents (RE) per 100 grams of vitamin A. As a comparison, green peas are at 64 RE, lima beans are 30 RE, sweet corn is 28 RE, and cabbage is 13 RE.

Purple cauliflower gets its beautiful color straight from the seed, from natural purple pigments called anthocyanins, which are antioxidant flavonoids. Anthocyanins belong to the group of phenolic antioxidants also found in red cabbage, red wine and blueberries. Flavinoids may help promote good brain function and may help increase the antioxidant capacity of the blood.

One cup of raw green cauliflower provides 2% of the recommended daily value of vitamin A compared to 0% from the same serving of white cauliflower. And one cup of green cauliflower provides 94% of the recommended daily value of vitamin C compared to only 77% from the same serving size of the ordinary white variety.

We encourage you to read more about this topic in our colorful nutrition knowledge base.