. . . . . "Endive can be cooked or used raw in salads.Endive belongs to the chicory genus.Endive is rich in many vitamins and minerals, especially in folate and vitamins A and K, and is high in fibre.There are two main varieties of cultivated endive:Fris??eCurly endive, or fris??e, Cichorium endivia var. crispum." .