Vegetable

In layman's terms, a vegetable is any plant, plant part, or fungal fruiting body that is eaten not as a dessert, a sweet snack, flavoring agent, or is not a seed that is not a bean. In practice, this includes leaves, soft stems, flowers, roots, tubers, whole plants, and fruits and seeds that can easily integrate into savory dishes.

Because humans are herbivorous omnivores, vegetables are the most important source of nutrients, minerals and calories in our diet. Many vegetables have important healing properties due to their unique phytochemical properties. {| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="article-table article-table-selected" style="width: 500px;" ! scope="col"|

Vegetable Type
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 * Root
 * Turnip, Potato, Beet
 * Leaf
 * Water spinach, Lettuce
 * "Fruit"
 * Tomato, Pumpkin
 * Fungi
 * Common mushroom, Morel
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 * Fungi
 * Common mushroom, Morel
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