Hakurei turnip

The Hakurei turnip (Brassica rapa subsp. rapa), also sold as the Japanese salad turnip or Tokyo turnip, is a small, smooth, snow-white salad turnip prized for a sweet, mild, fruity flavour that makes it good enough to eat raw, skin and all, like an apple. Bred in mid-twentieth-century Japan, it is a thin- skinned, fine-grained turnip about the size of a golf ball, sold in bunches with its tender, edible greens still attached, and eaten sliced raw in salads, quickly braised or pickled, or seared with its own leaves.