A printed copy with photos is available . Fresh daikon is already for sale in New Zealand although most retailers and consumers are unfamiliar with it - daikon was recently seen for sale in a Hawke's Bay supermarket as Chinese turnip. However, the crop is increasingly featuring on restaurant and hotel menus. It provides an exciting variation to our standard vegetables and a familiar meal accompaniment welcomed by Asian visitors or residents.
Fresh daikon is popular in Japan.
The foliage can also be dehydrated, pickled or freeze-dried. This market would particularly suit New Zealand suppliers as it avoids problems encountered when transporting the fresh product. Research at Hawke's Bay Research Centre in Hastings has produced vacuum-packed daikon roots that would be acceptable in Asia. The product stayed fresh in the gas flush packs for several months in the cool store. Daikon plants have serrated leaves and large white roots, sometimes with green shoulders, which stand prominently out of the soil making harvesting easy.