Vegetables is a catch-all category that includes many of the edible parts of a plant, like stems, roots, flowers, and leaves.  We don't usually consider the fruits of a plant to be vegetables, except for fruits that aren't very sweet.  Tomatoes, squash, peppers, eggplants, and beans, for example, are all fruits, but we usually refer to them as vegetables.

 

Roots  Tubers, including potatoes and sweet potatoes & yams. Stalk Vegetables  Onions, including green onions & leeks and dry onions & shallots.    Garlic   Ginger & Other Rhizomes  Cabbages  Salad Greens  Cooking Greens  Inflorescent Vegetables, including broccoli, cauliflower, and artichokes. Snap Beans Edible Pods Fresh Peas Fresh Beans   Mushrooms Fruit Vegetables, including tomatoes, eggplants, winter squash, summer squash, Asian squash, cucumbers, sweet peppers, fresh chiles, dried chiles, olives, avocados, and tomatillos. Sea Vegetables  Sprouts  Other Vegetables

 

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