With broccoli, it’s the actual flower buds you’re harvesting; you don’t want them to open or it will just be flower petals you’re eating, not the green buds we all know and love.

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Certain edible flowers also contain vitamins and minerals that are essential for human health. Broccoli flowers, for example, contain protein that may be added to foods such as cereals.

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