Swiss Chard has broad, wavy and wrinkled bronzed green leaves with contrasting crimson red stalks. The ruby red stalks extend into red veins throughout the plant's leaves. Red Swiss Chard's flavour profile shares the earthiness of a beet green with the salinity of spinach.

Chard is known to be a nutritional powerhouse vegetable packed with vitamins, nutrients and health benefits. Red Swiss Chard contains high levels of vitamins C, K, E, beta-carotene, calcium and the minerals manganese and zinc. As noted, it also contains betalain. Betalain pigments have repeatedly been shown to support activity within the body's detoxification process, activating and processing unwanted toxic substances. Fresh young chard can be used raw in salads. Mature Chard leaves and stalks are typically cooked or sautéed; the bitterness fades with cooking, leaving a refined flavour.