Improving vegetable brassica taste
Good nutrition is an essential pre-requisite for improved brassica sugar content, resulting in sweeter and tastier crops.
Sulfur
Sulfur is needed in brassicas to provide sweeter cabbages – with improved processing characteristics and better health providing properties. Good sulfur nutrition leads to sweeter cabbages.
Molybdenum and Zinc
Molybdenum and zinc also increase sugars contents. When available in sufficient quantities, zinc increases the sugar content of leaves. Zinc forms stable complexes with proteins and is therefore a structural and functional element of many enzymes. Excessive use of phosphorus can restrict zinc uptake. Thus it is important that zinc and phosphorus is balanced.
Manganese
Poor manganese supply also influences crop quality. Crops that are well supplied with manganese have higher sugar contents.
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