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It was formerly used as a leafy vegetable, but not highly valued Eryngium foetidum: Bhandhanya, Culantro: Eaten as a leafy green in Thailand. Used as seasoning in the Caribbean. Foeniculum vulgare: Fennel [108] Galactites tomentosa: Scarlina: Edible type of thistle [109] Galinsoga parviflora: Gallant Soldier: Popular in Colombia and Peru in ...
Leafy greens can be used to wrap other ingredients into an edible package like a tortilla. Many green leafy vegetables, such as lettuce or spinach, can also be eaten raw, for example, in sandwiches or salads. A green smoothie enables large quantities of raw leafy greens to be consumed by blending the leaves with fruit and water.
This is a list of plants that have a culinary role as vegetables. "Vegetable" can be used in several senses, including culinary, botanical and legal. This list includes botanical fruits such as pumpkins, and does not include herbs, spices, cereals and most culinary fruits and culinary nuts. Edible fungi are not included in this list.
The term colewort is a medieval term for non-heading brassica crops. [2] [3]The term collard has been used to include many non-heading Brassica oleracea crops. While American collards are best placed in the Viridis crop group, [4] the acephala (Greek for 'without a head') cultivar group is also used referring to a lack of close-knit core of leaves (a "head") like cabbage does, making collards ...
A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) awarded watercress, a leafy green, a perfect 100% score on their scale of “powerhouse fruits and vegetables.”
Articles relating to leaf vegetables, 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.
The leaf colours range from light green to green, dark green, violet-green, and violet-brown. Classification by leaf type: Curly-leaf (Scots kale, blue curled kale) Bumpy-leaf (black cabbage, better known by its Italian translation 'cavolo nero', and also known as Tuscan Cabbage, Tuscan Kale, lacinato and dinosaur kale) Sparkly-leaf (shiny and ...
Chard, like other green leafy vegetables, has highly nutritious leaves. Chard has been used in cooking for centuries, but because it is the same species as beetroot , the common names that cooks and cultures have used for chard may be confusing; [ 3 ] it has many common names , such as silver beet , perpetual spinach , beet spinach , seakale ...