celery

Everyday

Celery is a vegetable with long pale-green crunchy stalks and leafy tops, eaten raw or cooked. tree →

In the lessons

In everyday life, celery is used in salads, soups and snacks with dips or peanut butter. In science lessons, celery is used in a famous experiment: put a stalk in coloured water and watch the colour travel up its tubes (xylem), showing how plants carry water. In food labels, celery is one of the allergens that must be listed in the UK and Europe.

Examples

• Mum chopped celery for the soup. tree →
• Celery is crunchy and full of water. tree →
• We put a stick of celery in blue water and the leaves turned blue. tree →
• Ants on a log is celery with peanut butter and raisins. tree →
• This salad contains celery. tree →
• Celery seeds are used as a spice. tree →

Note

Uncountable: some celery, a stick or a stalk of celery, not a celery. Myth: celery has negative calories is not true; it simply has very few. Celery is a listed allergen.