Eating the Brussel sprout leaves???

[mark1860]

Wondering if you can eat the brussel sprout leaves and if they are as nutritious as spring greens?

thanks

[veggiechicken]

You can eat any of the cabbage/sprout/brassica leaves.
With sprouts, you can eat the sprout tops once the sprouts have finished so no reason why you can't eat the leaves too. Just do[t eat them all as the plant needs some to grow!
I'm not a nutritionist so can't answer your other question. Just eat and enjoy

[Bren In Pots]

I always eat my sprout tops once I've harvests the sprouts, and I'm with VC in saying before that I'm sure the plant needs all the leaves it got.

[Jay-ell]

Last year I cut the tops off early to see if this encouraged the sprouts to swell.

They were large tight balls of leaves so I just said that they were the sprouts.

[Jonnyt]

Sprout tops are absolutely f'in gorgeous, but if you eat the lower leaves you will affect the sprouts!