Celery Facts

Q: How should celery be stored?

Store celery in the refrigerator. You can also cut up the stalks and place them in a bowl of water in the fridge to help them last longer.

Learn fun celery facts, how celery grows, how to choose and store it, and easy ways kids can use celery in snacks, salads, and soups. This page also includes a crisp apple celery salad recipe.

Fun Celery Facts

Celery is grown in summer but sold in grocery stores throughout the year.
Celery grows in the garden like lettuces and cabbages.
Celery is crunchy and full of water.
The leaves and stalks can both be used in cooking.
Celery works well in soups, salads, snacks, and sandwiches.

How Celery Grows, Buying Tips, and Storage

When Celery Is Available

Celery is grown in the summer and is available in grocery stores throughout the year.

How Celery Grows

Celery grows in the garden like lettuces and cabbages.

You can even grow your own celery from scraps.

What to Look for When Buying

Choose celery that is light green in color and has moist leaves. Avoid celery that looks limp.

Storage Tips

Store celery in the fridge. You can also cut up the stalks and place them in a bowl of water in the fridge so they last longer.

Kid Tip: Celery is a fun vegetable for noticing crunch, water content, and how leaves and stalks can be used in different ways.

How to Use Celery

Wash the celery well.
Cut the stalks into sticks or slices.
Use the leaves to add flavor to soups.
Add the stalks to salads, soups, tuna salad, or chicken salad.
Eat celery raw as a crunchy snack.

Cooking Tip: Celery adds crunch to cold dishes and flavor to cooked soups and fillings.

Mini Activity

Celery Science Experiment

Place celery stalks in a cup of colored water.
Wait and observe how the color moves up through the celery.
Talk about how water travels through plants.

Try the full celery and food coloring experiment here.

Celery Nutrition Facts

Celery contains vitamin A, vitamin C, iron, and calcium.

Celery contains vitamin A.
It also contains vitamin C.
Celery provides iron.
It also contains calcium.

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Recipe

Celery Apple Salad

This celery apple salad combines crisp celery, apples, greens, and a simple honey-Dijon vinaigrette for a fresh side salad.

Honey-Dijon Vinaigrette Ingredients

1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons honey
2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
4 tablespoons olive oil or any substitute
Salt and black pepper, to taste

Salad Ingredients

6 large celery stalks, diced or sliced
1 to 2 red apples, thinly sliced
1/4 cup thinly sliced red onions
2 cups mixed greens
Chopped nuts, optional

Instructions

Prepare the vinaigrette by adding all ingredients to a small jar and whisking vigorously until creamy.
Place greens in the bottom of a large salad bowl.
Add sliced apples, celery, and red onions. Season with salt and black pepper to taste.
Drizzle the vinaigrette over the salad and toss to combine.

Kid Cooking Tip: Kids can help whisk the dressing, tear greens, add the sliced ingredients, and toss the salad.