19/06/2026
New this week: Fresh Organic Locally Grown Chicory Leaves 🍃 🥬🍃
But Chicory Leaves aren't just any old salad leaves, they are nutritional powerhouses that bring a crisp, peppery crunch to your meals.
A single serving of chicory leaves provides over 100% of your daily required Vitamin K, which is essential for healthy blood clotting and bone mineralisation.
The leaves are packed with lutein and zeaxanthin, two vital antioxidants that accumulate in the retina to filter harmful blue light and prevent macular degeneration.
The bitter compounds in the leaves hit receptors on your tongue, instantly signaling your stomach to produce digestive enzymes before your meal even arrives.
Chicory leaves can be intimidating due to their bitterness, but you can easily control the intensity by pairing them with something sweet, something fatty and something acidic.
Toss chicory leaves with sliced pears (sweet), toasted walnuts and shaved parmesan (fat), and a lemon-mustard vinaigrette (acid). The sweetness completely neutralizes the bitter edge.