A fatty duck was hardly helped by its sticky sweet black currant sauce, raw broccoli and granitic wild rice.

To subsist on fresh air, clean water and raw broccoli was, until recently, our spartan ideal, more honored in the breach than the observance.

Other slaw variants include broccoli slaw, which uses shredded raw broccoli in place of the cabbage.

For instance, to get the children to try raw broccoli, teachers told them that they were eating "little trees," just like the dinosaurs.

One cup of raw broccoli has about 31 calories.

Entrees come with a standard-issue salad bar: lettuce, cucumbers, shredded carrots, spinach, raw broccoli, chickpeas, croutons.

"Antioxidant," Hannah says approvingly, picking up a twig of raw broccoli.

They returned more times than raw broccoli.

Example: raw broccoli has 150 calories per pound.

As if a parent might object to the notion that Junior crunch on raw broccoli for a change.