Fruits and Vegetables Vocabulary in English

Fruits and vegetables are an important part of a healthy diet. They are rich in essential vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants that can help to boost your immune system, prevent chronic diseases, and maintain overall good health.

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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 a list of root vegetables in English:

Potatoes
Carrots
Beets
Sweet potatoes
Turnips
Radishes
Parsnips
Yams
Celeriac
Jerusalem artichokes
Jicama
Daikon radish
Rutabaga
Horseradish
Ginger

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Onion Family

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

Onions
Garlic
Leeks
Shallots
Chives
Scallions
Ramps
Welsh onions
Elephant garlic
Chinese chives
Egyptian Walking onions
Garlic scapes
Wild garlic
Pearl onions
Wild leeks

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 that are grown or harvested primarily for the consumption of their leafy parts, either raw or cooked.

Lettuce
Spinach
Kale
Collard greens
Swiss chard
Arugula
Mustard greens
Beet greens
Bok choy
Cabbage
Broccoli Rabe
Radicchio
Endive
Watercress
Dandelion greens

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.

Acorn squash
Butternut squash
Spaghetti squash
Delicata squash
Kabocha squash
Hubbard squash
Yellow squash
Zucchini squash
Pumpkin
Turban squash
Blue Hubbard squash
Sweet Dumpling squash
Red kuri squash
Black Futsu squash
Carnival squash
Golden Nugget squash
Grey Squash
Green striped cushaw
Crookneck squash
Straightneck squash
Scallop squash
Banana Squash
Zephyr Squash
Black Beauty Squash
Eight Ball Squash
Buttercup Squash
Gold Rush Squash
Toma Verde Squash
Ronde de Nice Squash
Golden Delicious Squash
Cocozelle Squash
Jewel Squash
Rossette Squash
White Scallop Squash
Yellow Crookneck Squash
Yellow Straightneck Squash
Goldbar Squash
Seneca Squash
Golden Ball Squash
Golden Pippin Squash
Golden Hubbard Squash
Spaghetti Squash
Kabocha Squash
Butternut Squash
Acorn Squash
Delicata Squash
Honeynut Squash
Turban Squash
Buttercup Squash
Carnival Squash

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 a 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: