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Young leaves may be eaten raw or cooked as a leaf vegetable. [123] Inula helenium: Elecampane: Leaves are edible, although root is preferred [124] Ipomoea aquatica Forssk. Water Spinach: Popular leafy green in Southeast Asia [125] [126] Ipomoea batatas var. batatas: Sweet Potato [127] [128] Kleinhovia hospita
Cabbage Leaf (1931) by Edward Weston. Cabbage Leaf is a black and white photograph taken by Edward Weston in 1931. The picture demonstrates the artist renewed interest in the physical textures of vegetables, seashells and other objects that were the subject of many of his photographs at this time.
Spinach, as an example of a leaf vegetable, is low in calories and fat per calorie, and high in dietary fiber, vitamin C, pro-vitamin A carotenoids, folate, manganese and vitamin K. [1] The vitamin K content of leaf vegetables is particularly high since these are photosynthetic tissues, and phylloquinone is involved in photosynthesis. [2]
Articles relating to leaf vegetables, plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots. Although they come from a very wide variety of plants, most share a great deal with other leaf vegetables in nutrition and cooking methods.
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The mustard leaf beetle (Phaedon cochleariae), is a common pest of cabbage plants. [67] The mustard leaf beetle will often choose to feed on cabbage over their natural host plants as cabbage is more abundant in palatable compounds such as glucosinolates that encourage higher consumption. [68]
This is a list of plants that have a culinary role as vegetables. "Vegetable" can be used in several senses, including culinary, botanical and legal. This list includes botanical fruits such as pumpkins, and does not include herbs, spices, cereals and most culinary fruits and culinary nuts.
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