Larger Image
This 1939 All America Selections winner has satisfied many gardeners for more than six decades.
| Clemson Spineless Green Okra
 - Pod size: 3 inches
- Matures: 50 to 64 days
High yields of spineless, tender ribbed pods with excellent flavor. Traditional favorite for soups and stews. Can be canned, fried or boiled. Harvest pods when 3 inches long. Pods get much bigger, but small pods are tender. Plants just keep growing until cool weather in the fall, so they will get 6 feet or taller in areas with a long, warm growing season. Space transplants 10 inches apart in rows about 3 feet apart. Heirloom. Nutritional Information The tender young pods of this indispensable Southern vegetable are eagerly awaited in the summer to be cooked into gumbos, stewed with tomatoes, and above all crisply fried in a cornmeal coating. The fiber found in okra is thought by nutritionists to be a superior type that helps stabilize blood sugar. This fiber is also thought to be one of the best contributors to intestinal health. The mucilage that makes okra gummy, some say slimy, when cooked is said to bind cholesterol and bile acid carrying toxins out of the body. Just remember that fried okra will add a lot of extra calories to the following nutritional profile, which is for simply boiled okra. - Calories: 18
- Carbohydrates: 4 grams
- Dietary fiber: 2 grams
- Protein: 1 gram
- Sugars: 2 grams
- Vitamin A: 5% DV
- Vitamin C: 22%
- Vitamin K: 40%
- Folate: 9%
- Vitamin B6: 7%
- Manganese: 12%
- Magnesium: 7%
- Calcium: 6%
|