She adds: ‘The leaves can be harvested as you would cos or romaine lettuce by cutting the head.’ Chicory is a biennial plant, but commonly grown as an annual plant in vegetable gardens.

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Vitamins and minerals in leaf chicory: Vitamins A, B, and C, calcium, potassium, iron, folic acid, magnesium. Head lettuce refers to any lettuce that grows in a bunch, or a compact head.

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Chicory is available throughout the winter months. Choose chicory with crisp, fresh-looking leaves that are springy to the touch and tightly packed; there should be no sign of insect damage.

There are different varieties of radicchio from the large round lettuce-shaped radicchio chioggia to the slender stalky treviso. Most common in the UK is red chicory, an endive-shaped small radicchio.