Portland is nutty for broccoli and kale, and is getting national recognition for being one of the most vegan-friendly cities in the country.

According to the number-crunchers at the money and lifestyle website WalletHub, Portland is the second-best place in the United States to be vegan or vegetarian, coming in behind New York.

To come up with the rankings, WalletHub compared the 100 most populated cities in the country based on three key areas: affordability; diversity, accessibility and quality; and vegetarian lifestyle. Those categories included examinations of how easy it is to find plant-based options at restaurants, how affordable food is at grocery stores and restaurants, and how welcoming the city's overall culture is to vegans and vegetarians.

While Portland's numerous vegan and vegetarian restaurants, farmers' markets, events like last weekend's VegFest, and embrace of all things offbeat undoubtedly helped the city's ranking, one area where the Rose City ranked high was surprising. Portland has the second highest number of vegetable nurseries per capita, second only to Miami.

Rounding out the Top 10 cities were:

3.

Orlando, Florida

4.

San Francisco (which would have ranked higher if it hadn't scored dead last for affordability)

5.

Los Angeles

6.

Seattle (which ranked 90th on affordability)

7.

Washington, D.C.

8.

Scottsdale, Arizona

9.

Miami

10.

San Diego

-- Grant Butler

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