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What does chicory mean?

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  1. (botany) Either of two plants of the Asteraceae family
    1. Common chicory (Cichorium intybus), the source of radicchio, Belgian endive, and sugarloaf.
    2. Endive (Cichorium endivia), the source of escarole and frisée.
  2. (cooking) A coffee substitute made from the roasted roots of the common chicory, sometimes used as a cheap adulterant in real coffee.
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Women of color, wearing distinctive head wraps called tignons, sold pralines, coffee with chicory, and brown ginger cakes.
Oligosaccharides are present in vegetables such as Jerusalem artichokes, burdock, chicory, leeks, onions, and asparagus, and of course beans.
Harvest herb roots including bloodroot, chicory, ginseng, and golden seal in the fall, after the foliage fades.
These chicons are the forced shoots of an otherwise green, bitter salad called witloof chicory.
The warm forcing conditions for witloof chicory production can cause browning of the chicon axis.
For example, in the sunflower and daisies family you'd find bitter-flavored vegetables like artichoke, endive, chicory and radicchio.

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