12/03/2024
22 GENERAL VEGETABLE KNOWLEDGE
1. Fruits and vegetables are two common food items that are often used interchangeably, but they are different from each other. In botanical terms, vegetable is any edible part of plant without seeds, but includes stems, roots, tubers, flower, bulbs and leaves.
2. Vegetables are any edible part of a plant that are not the fruits or seeds.
3. Vegetables can be classified as leaf, shoot, stem, root, tuber, flower buds, bulb and sprouts
4. Botanists classify vegetables based on the part of the plant that they originated, while chefs use flavour profile such as sweet or savoury to classify vegetables
5. Vegetables are less sweet and often grow as short plants or shrubs.
6. Most vegetables are annual plants.
7. Vegetables can be eaten raw or cooked, but most vegetables are mostly consumed after cooking.
8. Vegetables are tend to be higher in starch than fruits.
9. Vegetables are sweet, salty, sour or bitter.
10. All herbs and vegetable leaves are vegetables.
11. China is the largest producer of vegetables and global trade in agricultural products.
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12. Corn is a cereal and botanically classified as fruit, but it is culinary referred to as vegetable, because it is usually cooked with vegetables.
13. Avocados, corn, peppers, bell peppers, tomatoes, squashes, green peas, pumpkins and cucumbers are all botanically referred to as fruits, but they are generally referred to as vegetables because of the way they are prepared.
14. Okro is botanically called fruit, but it is culinary referred to as vegetable.
15. Tomato grows from the plant's flower and has seeds, making it a fruit, but it is culinary referred to as vegetable.
16. Cucumber grows from a f
