Examples of Different Parts of Plants Used As Vegetables
The list of food items called "vegetable" is quite long, and includes many different parts of plants:
- Flower bud
- broccoli, cauliflower, globe artichokes, capers
- Seeds
- Sweet corn (maize), peas, beans
- Leaves
- kale, collard greens, spinach, arugula, beet greens, bok choy, chard, choi sum, turnip greens, endive, lettuce, mustard greens, watercress, garlic chives, gai lan
- Leaf sheaths
- leeks
- Buds
- Brussels sprouts
- Stem
- Kohlrabi, galangal, and ginger
- Stems of leaves
- celery, rhubarb, cardoon, Chinese celery
- Stem shoots
- asparagus, bamboo shoots
- Tubers
- potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes, sweet potatoes, taro, and yams
- Whole-plant sprouts
- soybean (moyashi), mung beans, urad, and alfalfa.
- Roots
- carrots, parsnips, beets, radishes, rutabagas, turnips, and burdocks.
- Bulbs
- onions, shallots, garlic
- Fruits in the botanical sense, but used as vegetables
- tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, zucchinis, pumpkins, peppers, eggplant, tomatillos, chayote, okra, breadfruit, avocado, green beans, and snow peas,
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