heart of palm

…palm hearts, also known as hearts of palm, which are eaten as a vegetable. Palm hearts are harvested by removing the growing top of the palm crown; each heart consists of a whitish cylinder of tender immature leaves. Given that acai palms are multistemmed, the harvest can be done without…

Palm cabbage, the delicate young bud cut from the top of the tree, is, like the buds from other palms, eaten as a salad vegetable.