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Alphabetical list of vegetables

Here is an alphabetical list of vegetables and some related facts about each
one.

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Carrot - Introduced by the Romans, carrots have been popular for 2000
Years

Cauliflower - White relative of broccoli

Celeriac - a large knotted ball-like root vegetable which makes amazing

nutty soups

Celery - Slightly bitter (unless blanched) european stalks with a

distinctive flavour, used in salads, stews and soups.

Chard - green leafy vegetable

Chicory - bitter vegetable

Collards - This leafy green vegetable is also known as tree-cabbage and

is rich in vitamins and minerals.

Corn - North American native vegetable considered sacred by many

native tribes. Confusingly corn is also the word used to describe the seeds
of wheat and barley.
Cress - small peppery sprouts

Cucumbers - related to courgettes and traditionally used raw in salads.

The cucumber grows quickly and holds lots of water

Gourds - The common name for fruits of the Cucurbitaceae family of

plants (members include cucumbers, squashes, luffas, and melons).

Jerusalem Artichoke - It isn't an Artichoke and it doesn't come from

Jerusalem. The jersalem Artichoke is actually related to the sunflower.
The bit we eat is an ugly little tuber (like a small thin potato) that tastes
amazing. It has a smoky taste that really excites the palette.

Kales - Until the Renaissance, kale was the most common green
vegetable eated by the people of northern Europe

Kohlrabi - Kohlrabi is a member of the turnip family and can be either

purple or white.

Leek - The national vegetable of Wales.

Lettuce - lots of green leaves used as a mainstay of salads. Varieties such

as round, isberg, lollo rosso and radichio are popular.

Melons - Wonderful fruits with a high water content. There are many
farmed varieties . All have seeds surrounded by rich, watery but sweet
flesh that is encased in a fairly hard shell.

Mushrooms - not technically a vegetable, but a far older member of the

plant kingdom. Mushrooms do not use sunlight to produce energy, hence
they have a completely different range of tastes than any other vegetable.
Did you know that the largest single living organism on earth is a
mushroom called Armillaria Ostoyae, the biggest of which is up to 8,500
years old and carpets nearly 10 square kilometres of forest floor in
northeastern Oregon, USA.

Okra also called 'ladies fingers' or gumbo is a wonderful pungent

vegetable from the same family as hollyhock. It probably was first
cultivated in Ethiopia and is still a North African staple, but has become
popular in Europe, Asia and America too.

Onions Onions have been eaten for tens of thousands of years and we
still aren't bored of them.

Parsnips The sweet, starchy parsnip was a very popular european

vegetable before the arrival of potaoes and Sugar Cane from the
Americas. Although not the prize it once was, the Parsnip is a classic root
vegetable, particularly popular in more northern lattitudes.

Peas - best eated within minutes of picking as the sugars rapidly turn to
starch. Therefore frozen peas often taste better than 'fresh' peas.

Peppers - These are the fruit of the Capsicum family of plants. The
hotter tasting ones (due to more Capsaicinoids in the flesh) are usually
refered to as chillis.

Potatoes - Nothing finer than a steaming plate of mashed potatoes. An

american staple crop that as been exported all over the world.

Pumpkins - A popular gourd vegetable used in cooking and to make

halloween jack o lanterns.

Radicchio - a chicory leaf used in salads. Popular since ancient times,

modern widescale cultivation of the plant began in the fifteenth century
close to Venice in Italy.

Radish - rich in ascorbic acid (vitamin C), folic acid (folate), and
Potassium, the raddish is a peppery vegetable popular in western and
asian cookery. We usually eat the taproot, but the leaves can also be eaten
in salads.

Rhubarb - A plant with large leaves that grow out of thick succulent
stems with a very particular floral scent. These stems are popularly eaten
as a fruit once sweetened and cooked. Rhubarb was originally native to
China but has been popular in Europe since Roman times.

Rutabaga - Alternative name for Swede

Shallots - Small onions often with a more fiery bite.

Spinach -large green leaves wilt easily in a pan and are often served with
a little butter and nutmeg as an accompanying vegetable. Spinach contains
lots of healthy trace minerals including iron

Squash another generic name for fruits of the vine of the Cucurbitaceae
family of plants (see also Gourds). Butternut Squash has recently grown
in popularity in the United Kingdom.

Swede - Apparently a cross between cabbages and turnips swedes are a

low calory root vegetable

Sweetcorn - a north american native plant loved throughout the world.

Sweet potato Ipomoea batatas (related to the morning glory) produces a

starchy tuber. In the USA the red variety of sweet potato is often called a
yam, although yams are a seperate vegetable in their own right.

Tomatoes - not technically a vegetable, but a fruit. Tomatoes are best

grown yourself because the uniform flavourless powdery fruits available
in supermarkets are not worth eating.

Turnips - Root vegetable will grow in cold climates.

Watercress - very peppery small salad like leaves

Watermelon - Sweet tasting gourd reaches enourmous size and

definitely the most refreshing fruit there is.

Yams - Sweet starchy tuber that are popular in African, Carribean and
American cookery

We hope this alphabetical list of vegetables is of use to you.

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