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List of vegetables; Local food – Food produced within a short distance of where it is consumed; Neolithic Revolution – Transition in human history from hunter-gatherer to settled peoples; New World crops – Crops native to the New World
Cabbage plants. Cruciferous vegetables are vegetables of the family Brassicaceae (also called Cruciferae) with many genera, species, and cultivars being raised for food production such as cauliflower, cabbage, kale, garden cress, bok choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, mustard plant and similar green leaf vegetables.
A 2021 study suggests that Brassica cretica, native to the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly Greece and the Aegean Islands, was the closest living relative of cultivated B. oleracea, thus supporting the view that its cultivation originated in the Eastern Mediterranean region, with later admixture from other Brassica species. [6]
In 1988, the Israeli botanist Daniel Zohary and the German botanist Maria Hopf formulated their founder crops hypothesis. They proposed that eight plant species were domesticated by early Neolithic farming communities in Southwest Asia (Fertile Crescent) and went on to form the basis of agricultural economies across much of Eurasia, including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Europe, and North ...
Beans – eaten dry as pulses or fresh as vegetables. Azuki bean (Vigna angularis) Black-eyed pea (Vigna unguiculata) Chickpea (Cicer arietinum) Common bean (Phaseolus spp., including pinto bean, kidney bean, runner bean, Lima bean, and others) Lentil (Lens culinaris) Velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens) Moth bean-(Vigna aconitifolia) Mung bean (Vigna ...
After the long winter, one of my favorite edible native plants emerges. Ramps or wild leek ( Allium tricoccum ) is an onion that produces tasty edible leaves in spring, followed by small white ...
When complete, the list below will include all food plants native to the Americas (genera marked with a dagger † are endemic), regardless of when or where they were first used as a food source. For a list of food plants and other crops which were only introduced to Old World cultures as a result of the Columbian Exchange touched off by the ...
The parsnip is native to Eurasia; it has been used as a vegetable since antiquity and was cultivated by the Romans, although some confusion exists between parsnips and carrots in the literature of the time. It was used as a sweetener before the arrival of cane sugar in Europe. [3] Parsnips are usually cooked but can also be eaten raw.