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Leaf vegetables, also called leafy greens, pot herbs, vegetable greens, or simply greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots. 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.
The leaves of many fodder crops are also edible for humans, but are usually only eaten under famine conditions. Examples include alfalfa, clover, and most grasses, including wheat and barley. Food processing, such as drying and grinding into powder or pulping and pressing for juice, may be used to involve these crop leaves in a diet.
Leaf vegetables contain many typical plant nutrients, but since they are photosynthetic tissues, their vitamin K levels are particularly notable. Phylloquinone, the most common form of the vitamin, is directly involved in photosynthesis.
Look up leafvegetable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Leafvegetables, also called leafy greens, pot herbs, vegetable greens, or simply greens, are...
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...
culinarily a vegetable according to the United States. Food portal Herbs Vegetable juice List of culinary fruits List of leafvegetables List of vegetable dishes...
dish with other vegetables and sourdough bread, served at a restaurant in Australia Bowen's Kale Crambe maritima – sea kale Leafvegetable Kalettes Cabbage...
and "love lies bleeding". Some amaranth species are cultivated as leafvegetables, pseudocereals, and ornamental plants. Catkin-like cymes of densely...
Group. Other cultivars of the same species include the sugar beet, the leafvegetable known as chard or spinach beet, and mangelwurzel, which is a fodder...
L.) is an edible annual plant in the family Brassicaceae used as a leafvegetable for its fresh, tart, bitter, and peppery flavor. Its other common names...
groups of leafvegetables often used in Chinese cuisine: the Pekinensis Group (napa cabbage) and the Chinensis Group (bok choy). These vegetables are both...
eaten as human food in various ways, and the leaves can be eaten as a leafvegetable. The roots and tops are also used for livestock, fed directly in the...
of vegetable soups. Vegetable soup is a common soup prepared using vegetables and leafvegetables as primary ingredients. Atama soup – a vegetable and...
is a vegetable, a cultivar of Allium ampeloprasum, the broadleaf wild leek (syn. Allium porrum). The edible part of the plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths...
It is found in tropical Asia and Africa where it is widely used as a leafvegetable. It is native to the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and New Guinea...
cocoyam and tannia). Since the leafvegetable used in some regions differs, some confusion can arise among the vegetables with the dish itself. This, as...
choy, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, mustard plant and similar green leafvegetables. The family takes its alternative name (Cruciferae, Neo-Latin for "cross-bearing")...
a green leafy vegetable. In the cultivars of the Flavescens Group, the leaf stalks are large and often prepared separately from the leaf blade; the Cicla...
shepherd's crook. The fiddleheads of certain ferns are eaten as a cooked leafvegetable. The most popular of these are: Bracken, Pteridium aquilinum, found...
annual plant of the family Asteraceae. It is most often grown as a leafvegetable, but sometimes for its stem and seeds. Lettuce is most often used for...
choy as depicted in art, the Jadeite Cabbage Gai lan Choy sum List of leafvegetables Food portal Sanderson, Helen; Renfrew, Jane M. (2005). Prance, Ghillean;...
-dɪv, ˈɑːndiːv/) is a leafvegetable belonging to the genus Cichorium, which includes several similar bitter-leafed vegetables. Species include Cichorium...
in culinary as leafvegetable, for making salads, stir-fried dishes, or soups. Leafy greens from the plant are known as pearl vegetable, and they contain...
dehydrated, dried, or baked. Many different root vegetables or leafvegetables may be used. Vegetable chips may be eaten as a snack food and may accompany...
heilbornii, babaco papaya Leafvegetable Root vegetable Breadfruit is an example of a tree fruit that is perennial, and is used as a vegetable Perennial (disambiguation)...
or arrach, is a species of plant in the amaranth family used as a leafvegetable that was common before spinach and still grown as a warm-weather alternative...
from the Akan language It is widely grown in tropical regions as a leafvegetable. The plant grows erect, reaching a height of 30 to 100 cm (12 to 39 in)...
Vegetable soup is a common soup prepared using vegetables and leafvegetables as primary ingredients. It dates to ancient history, and is a mass-produced...
is a perennial cultivated form of leaf chicory (Cichorium intybus, Asteraceae). It is grown as a leafvegetable and usually has colorful, white-veined...
scattered locations in North America. Glebionis coronaria is used as a leafvegetable. English language common names include garland chrysanthemum, chrysanthemum...
commonly brown mustard, Chinese mustard, Indian mustard, leaf mustard, Oriental mustard and vegetable mustard, is a species of mustard plant. Brassica juncea...
quail grass, soko, celosia, feather cockscomb) is a broadleaf annual leafvegetable. It grows widespread across Mexico, where it is known as "velvet flower"...
grown in southern Italy, has thick leaf stems resembling celery. Another type of parsley is grown as a root vegetable, the Hamburg root parsley (P. crispum...
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