Talk:Chicory

message: There was no link to a corresponding Hebrew article. Turns out there is a Hebrew article for Chicorium but not for (Common) Chicory. When I tried to add a Wikidata interlink, I got an error "The link hewiki:עולש (צמח) is already used by item Q158514. You may remove it from Q158514 if it does not belong there or merge the items if they are about the exact same topic."  I ended up adding a custom language link to this English Chicory article. I wouldn't merge the items because Chicorium is not identical to Common Chicory. I suspect the right thing to do would be to create a Hebrew stub for Common Chicory, but I wasn't able to find Wiki policy on the matter. Personally, I'm against pointless stubs that just add Wiki page for no other purpose at this point. Or would a Hebrew redirect entry be more appropriate?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Binba (talk • contribs) 21:56, 12 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Interlanguage link

message: Obviously root chicory has not been used as a coffee subtitute since "The Middle Ages," which refers to Europe from around 800-1200 CE, and coffee wasn't introduced to Europe until well after that. Anyone happen to have a source handy for when/where this vegetable began getting mixed into coffee?L Glidewell 21:11, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No idea, but it wasn't since the Middle Ages.   Changed the wording on the article page to something much more ambiguous, "a long time."  Thanks for catching this, feel free to edit out pure nonsense yourself in articles.  KP Botany 21:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of chicory as coffee substitute

message: Is the term "weed" truly applicable to chicory? It does, indeed, have value, including aesthetic as well as culinary (and some might say medicinal but I am not knowledgeable enough about this to state for certain). Also, I can't say that I have ever seen chicory that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of a desired crop. If anything, they tend to grow on roadsides or recently cleared, barren, gravely land where few other plants would grow.
Is there not a better term to use in the sentence that is referring to how it has become a common roadside "weed" in America? How about just "plant?"
weed1      
–noun
1.	a valueless plant growing wild, esp. one that grows on cultivated ground to the exclusion or injury of the desired crop.
2.	any undesirable or troublesome plant, esp. one that grows profusely where it is not wanted: The vacant lot was covered with weeds.
3.	Informal. a cigarette or cigar.
4.	Slang. a marijuana cigarette.
5.	a thin, ungainly person or animal.
6.	a wretched or useless animal, esp. a horse unfit for racing or breeding purposes.
"weed." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 27 Jul. 2007. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/weed>.
Kestrelinden 15:42, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Is the term "weed" really applicable here?

message: I've added a fact tag and deleted the mention of children.  I'm wary of uncited information about home remedies for children. Kroyw 18:39, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethnomedical uses

message: Lead....
Confirmed in several books, including REaders Digest Encylopedia on Herbs...
"Ancient roman therapy for liver problems..."
Really works !!!!
--Caesar J. B. Squitti  :  Son of Maryann Rosso and Arthur Natale Squitti 22:58, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Chicory.

message: I have done my best to tidy up this page and the endive page separating them according to species (scientific definition) rather than their common names. A lot of websites get the species wrong. It would be good to have some pictures of the different types on both endive and chicory pages. It might also be worth creating a separate page for belgian endive as there already is for radiccioHalon8 (talk) 15:22, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What blows my mind is that the article says that endive and chicory are often confused, and then turns around and discusses Belgian endive. 76.180.208.103 (talk) 22:16, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, Belgian "endive" is indeed part of the common chicory species (Cichorium intybus), not the endive (Cichorium endivia) – which itself can be called chicory.  Confused indeed, and confusing too...  Richard New Forest (talk) 23:11, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: So, are you saying that the lettucy-looking plants called chicory that we buy in the grocery store is the same species as the the woody stemmed, blue flowered plant that grows on roadsides? That's amazing. And Belgian endive is in the same genus? giggle 13:58, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it is.  Selective breeding can do amazing things, and there is a similar amount of difference between the domesticated and wild types of, say, carrot, parsnip, cabbage, beetroot, swede, lettuce, apple, plum, etc, etc.  Richard New Forest (talk) 21:21, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chicory/endive confusion 

message: Chicory Root: An ancient roman therapy for liver problems, similar to dandelion root, same family.
Noted this in a readers digest source years ago, verified through incident research.
Suggest we find a source for this.
--Caesar J.B. Squitti: Son of Maryann Rosso and Arthur Natale Squitti (talk) 01:19, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chicory Root: An ancient roman therapy for liver problems. 

message: Production figures are for "Lettuce and chicory".  While the FAO may have a good reason for lumping these two vegetables in their production figures, I think it's safe to assume that the lettuce accounts for the vast majority of the tonnage given.  As such, it's pretty misleading to have these figures on this page.  I'm inclined to delete the production section altogether, and will probably do so next time I visit this page (in the absence of any arguments against doing so).  It would be nice to see production figures for chicory alone, but giving figures combined with lettuce is pretty useless.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.104.39.2 (talk) 22:57, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds a logical argument to me.  Richard New Forest (talk) 23:20, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Deleted the production section.  If anybody has statistics for global production of chicory alone (not chicory+lettuce), please include them.192.104.39.2 (talk) 16:11, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Production 

message: I highly doubt the accuracy of the history section:
Chicory is an ingredient in typical Roman recipes, generally fried with garlic and red pepper, with its bitter and spicy taste, often together with meat or potatoes. FAO reports that in 2005, China and the USA were the top producers of lettuce and chicory.[citation needed]
Since Red Peppers Were brought over to Europe from Central America and did not exist in Europe before Columbus, that incorrect fact calls the history section in to question. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.26.82.219 (talk) 03:12, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not Ancient Rome.  The area around Rome, Italy.  They probably call it Puntarelle.  See also Endive, http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucina_romana http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puntarelle  I don't know whether "red pepper" refers to the hot pepper or bell pepper, but both are indeed from the Americas.  -- SEWilco (talk) 03:35, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History in Question 

message: The statement I removed was:
Since then, new strains have been created, giving root chicory an inulin content comparable to that of sugar beet (around 600 dt/ha).
This was originally introduced 16 January 2006 by 62.203.180.25 as:
Up to this time new breeding lines were created confering to the root chicory similar yield like the sugar beet (around 600 dt/ha).
 
It was changed to its current form 25 January 2006 by 67.22.38.83.
Neither version of the statement is sourced. For comparison, see Table 4 on p. 297 of 
Polysaccharides and Polyamides in the Food Industry. 600 dt/ha = 60 tonnes per hectare is a fairly high yield for the unprocessed crop, but an order of magnitude too high for the inulin content.  Cstaffa (talk) 20:36, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Yields per hectare

message: Chicory is described in the article as an "appetite stimulant", suggesting that it increases appetite. But the word "stimulant" links to the article about stimulant drugs, which are appetite suppressants. This is nonsense and needs clarification. If someone can't explain this better in the article in a few days, I plan to remove the entire reference to "appetite stimulant". 75.178.178.212 (talk) 03:16, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appetite "stimulant" 

message: Within the Medicinal heading there are three links to studies on grazing animals infected with parasites.  Under the heading Forage there are notes requesting links and references.  A connecting series of links to the previous three *footnote 15, 16 & 17* could be made.  However,  Italic textThe Herb BookItalic text written by John Lust (1974 Bantam Books)  does not cite Chicory as an anti-parasitic, rather as a stimulant for digestion and bile production.
Arrianarose (talk) 09:53, 31 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  cross reference between medicinal and forage sections 

message: "In the United Kingdom during the Second World War where Camp Coffee, a coffee and chicory essence, has been on sale since 1885."
If I could figure out what this means I could make it a sentence.  But I can't, so I can't.  Clarification or deletion? Huw Powell (talk) 03:20, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I think my fix is what was meant. It's certainly correct. Peter coxhead (talk) 14:23, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tagged non-sentence 

message: Roasted chicory roots are used not only as a coffee substitute, but also a potent colorant for food. Any sauce, dough etc You want to look more or less dark brown can be made by adding small amounts of that roasted root.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.221.230.165 (talk) 10:42, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: If roasted chicory roots can be used to color food, it would be certainly be good to include this in the article. I haven't been able to discover a reference for it, though. Can you supply one? If you need help, just ask me. Hamamelis (talk) 13:56, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colorant 

message: Why does this word redirect here?
Qwertyxp2000 (talk) 23:15, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: "Common names for varieties of var. foliosum include endive, radicchio, Belgian endive, French endive, red endive, sugarloaf and witloof (or witlof)." Best wishes DBaK (talk) 00:18, 14 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Witloof 

message: The section on root chicory has both numbers, the first one apparently without a reference. Can someone clarify?Northwind Arrow (talk) 14:13, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  20% inulin or 68% in root? 

message: The claim that this plant must be grown completely underground is surely wrong.  How can that work ?  How can the plant develop all those leaves and that sturdy root without light?  The answer would seem to be,  the plant has to grow "normally" for one season, storing energy in the root,   and then buried to re-grow abnormally the second season.  That would be somewhat similar to asparagus.  The wording of this section needs attention from an expert.Lathamibird (talk) 11:49, 14 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Growing witlof 

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message: In the History section, I think two sentences have been mangled and merged:
:"It was also used in the United Kingdom during the Second World War, where Camp Coffee, a coffee and chicory essence, has been on sale since 1885."
Any ideas about how that was supposed to read?    Heavenlyblue (talk) 09:13, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  on sale since 1885 

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message: Chicory Root was used as an ancient Roman therapy for Liver problems, the material was presented in the book, " Magic and Medicine of Plants", by Reader's Digest Association. --C Squitti (talk) 02:27, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: - Not convinced about whether the content is verifiable, WP:V, or whether it is significant enough to add, WP:WEIGHT. We need a stronger source. --Zefr (talk) 03:01, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chicory - Traditional Medicine 

message: The dutch article for witlof should get linked, instead of "wilde chicory" I think. 81.243.20.246 (talk) 15:26, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  language link dutch