Fruits and Vegetables Vocabulary in English

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Vegetables Vocabulary – Video

Fruit Vocabulary – Video

Fruits and Vegetables Vocabulary – Video

Fruits and Vegetables Vocabulary

Vegetables Vocabulary

Based on edible botanical parts, vegetables can be grouped into the following:

Root Vegetables
Onion Family
Leafy Vegetables
Squash
Peas & Beans

Root Vegetables

Root vegetables are plant roots eaten by humans as food.

This is list of root vegetables in English:

Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
Cassava
Carrot
Beet
Parsnip
Rutabaga
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Onion Family

Onion Family includes hundreds of species, including the cultivated onion, garlic, scallion, shallot, leek, and chives.

Leafy Vegetables

Leaf vegetables, also called potherbs, greens, vegetable greens, leafy greens, or salad greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots. Although they come from a very wide variety of plants, most share a great deal with other leaf vegetables in nutrition and cooking methods.

This is a list of vegetables which are grown or harvested primarily for the consumption of their leafy parts, either raw or cooked.

Kale
Spinach
Mache
Chard
Arugular
Tat Soi
Mizuna
Romaine
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Squash

Squashes are a kind of vegetable. They originally came from the New World. Gourds are in the same family as squashes. Pumpkins and courgette are types of squashes.

Peas & Beans

Bean is a common name for large seeds of several genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae which are used for human food.

Pea is most commonly the small spherical seed or the seed-pod of the pod fruit Pisum sativum. Each pod contains several peas.

There are a multitude of beans. This list of beans has been edited to ones that most people have a reasonable chance of acquiring provided they have access to a specialty food store.

Butter Beans
Chickpeas
Kidney Beans
Pigeon Pea
Pink Beans
Pinto Beans
Corona Beans
Fava Beans
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Fruits Vocabulary in English

A fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants formed from the ovary after flowering. Humans have become dependent on fruits as a source of food.

In common language usage, “fruit” normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of a plant that are sweet or sour, and edible in the raw state, such as: