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This is a list of vegetables which are grown or harvested primarily for the consumption of their leafy parts, either raw or cooked. Many vegetables with leaves that are consumed in small quantities as a spice such as oregano , for medicinal purposes such as lime , or used in infusions such as tea , are not included in this list.
Vegetable Calamansi: Fruit Used in various condiments, beverages, dishes, marinades, and preserves. Gabi (Taro corm) Root crop Gata (Coconut milk) Glutinous rice: Grain Gulaman: An edible thickening agent used to make jellies, flan, or desserts derived from dried seaweed. Kanin (Rice) Grain Called bigas when uncooked and kanin when cooked.
Vegetables in a market in the Philippines Vegetables for sale in a market in France. Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food.The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds.
The definition of fruit for this list is a culinary fruit, defined as "Any edible and palatable part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or semi-sweet vegetables, some of which may resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were ...
Leaf vegetables eaten raw in a salad can be called salad greens. Nearly one thousand species of plants with edible leaves are known. Leaf vegetables most often come from short-lived herbaceous plants, such as lettuce and spinach. Woody plants of various species also provide edible leaves.
Leaves (when young, in April), edible raw as a salad vegetable . Berries (in autumn), edible raw, or made into jellies, jams and syrups, or used as a flavoring [6] Beech: Fagus sylvatica: Europe, except parts of Spain, northern England, northern parts of Northern Europe: Nuts (in September or October), edible raw or roasted and salted, or can ...
Siling labuyo is a small chili pepper cultivar that developed in the Philippines after the Columbian Exchange. It belongs to the species Capsicum frutescens and is characterized by triangular fruits that grow pointing upwards. [1] The fruits and leaves are used in traditional Philippine cuisine.
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.