Fruits and Vegetables Vocabulary in English

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

1. Root Vegetables
2. Onion Family
3. Leafy Vegetables
4. Squash
5. Peas & Beans

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
  ...

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

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
  ...

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.

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
  ...

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:

•  Apples
• Bananas
• Grapes
• Lemons
• Oranges
• Strawberries
• Avocado
• Cherry
• Kumquat
• Mango
• Melon
  ...