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Vegetable occurs as nutritional and culinary term denoting any part of the plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is non look on a culinary grain, fruit, nut, herb, or spice.
These include leaf vegetables (e.g. lettuce), stem vegetables (asparagus), root vegetables (carrot) and flower vegetables (broccoli), and botanic fruits like green beans, cucumbers, squashes, pumpkins, tomatoes, avocados, capsicums, et cetera, when well as overweight, unformed seeds like people of peas or beans.
Vegetable is non the botanical term and so no contradiction around the plant structure existence the fruit botanically spell however existence considered the vegetable.
In the main, vegetables come thought of when existence dine in the main course, non when dessert or breakfast (with a bit of exceptions, like rhubarb).
Commercial production of vegetables occurs as branch of horticulture called olericulture.
Vegetable is likewise utilized as a literary term for any plant: vegetable matter, vegetable kingdom.
See Also
List of vegetables
Vegetarianism
Veganism
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Cornell Vegetables
Homepage for Cornell University. This is the gateway to an extensive resource backup for the commercial vegetable grower.
Philippine Vegetables, Fruits and Spices
Photos and descriptions of vegetables, fruits and spices used in Filipino cuisine.
Vegetable Research & Information Center - University of California
Information on the cultivation, production and harvesting of vegetables in California for farmers and home gardeners. Biotechnology, composting, fertilizers, irrigation and postharvest techniques also included.
Vegetable Horticulture Program - SWFREC
The Southwest Florida Research and Education Center provides Florida with research and extension information, specifically in the areas of vegetable transplant production and stand establishment. Crop budgets and cover crops also included.
World Carrot Museum
History, nutrition, cultivation, recipes, trivia and interesting facts of this important vegetable.
Vegetable Initiative Research
University of Tennessee Experiment Station has launched a Vegetable Initiative whose goal is to assist and encourage vegetable producers in Tennessee.
Vegetable Crop Management - University of Minnesota
Information on the commercial production of garlic, sweet corn, yellow storage onions and carrots.
Gulf Coast Research and Education Center - University of Florida
Includes notes on the Center's research programs and variety trial information on tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, watermelon and gourds. Gourd photo gallery also included.
Vegetables - Ontario, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
All aspects of vegetable production are covered including factsheets, newsletters, crop updates, pest and disease control and statistics.
Georgia Commercial Vegetable Information - University of Georgia
Comprehensive site with information on budgets, market information, images, newsletters, weeds, extension publications and research information.
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