Also!: Make sure to cut off and discard all of the leaves. Rhubarb stalks are edible both raw and cooked, but the leaves contain oxalic acid which can cause problems for your digestion.

Since rhubarb is crisp and very tart, most recipes, such as Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam and Rhubarb Coffee Cake, call to toss the pieces with sugar and cook them to soften and mellow the flavor.

How to cook and bake with rhubarb: You’ll usually find rhubarb baked into sweets, like rhubarb crisp (topped with a brown sugar crumble), rhubarb pie, or rhubarb custard cake.

Rhubarb stalks are chock-full of disease-fighting antioxidants. Robin Miller, MD, reveals a technique to cook rhubarb that enhances it's nutrition.

Some folk love the acidic tanginess of rhubarb, but the ingredient does come with a few warnings, one of which is that there are some pans it reacts badly with.

Although it’s technically a vegetable due to its lack of seeds, rhubarb is usually cooked in sweet recipes, such as crumbles, pies and jams, and often pops up in flavoured spirits, particularly ...

Even though rhubarb is botanically a vegetable, it's most commonly used in dessert recipes, like the iconic strawberry-rhubarb pie. To cut its intense tanginess, rhubarb is often mixed with ...

As we are smack dab in the middle of rhubarb season, it’s time to get creative and enjoy this wonderful tart fruit. We combed our archives for rhubarb recipes and know-how. You can find stalks ...

Rhubarb is a perennial vegetable that is primarily used as a fruit in cooking. It grows best in full sun and fertile, well-drained soil. Rhubarb should not be harvested the first year it is ...