Some vegetables which are botanically fruits (such as tomatoes) are considered to be vegetables in the culinary (eating) sense. This is why they appear in this article.
- Beans and peas
- Azuki beans (or adzuki)
- Bean sprouts
- Black beans
- Black-eyed peas
- Borlotti beans
- Broad beans
- Chickpeas, Garbanzos, or ceci beans
- Green beans
- Kidney beans
- Lentils
- Lima bean or Butter bean
- Mung beans
- Navy beans
- Runner beans
- Soy beans
- Peas
- Bok choy (US) (called Chinese leaves in the UK)
- Breadfruit
- Broccoflower (a hybrid)
- Broccoli
- Brussels sprouts
- Cabbage
- Calabrese
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Chard
- Cilantro
- Collard greens
- Corn salad
- Endive
- Fennel
- Fiddleheads (young coiled fern leaves)
- Frisee
- Kale
- Kohlrabi
- Lemon grass
- Lettuce Lactuca sativa - Shocking, most days I'll eat a salad! But it has to have A LOT of dressing
- Maize (UK) = Corn (US) = Sweetcorn (actually a grain)
- Mushrooms (actually a fungus, not a plant)
- Mustard greens
- Nettles
- New Zealand spinach
- Okra
- Onion family
- Chives
- Garlic
- Leek Allium porrum
- Onion - only fried (Onion Rings or Strings)
- Shallot
- Spring onion (UK) == Green onion (US) == Scallion
- Parsley - as a seasoning, but that's it!
- Peppers (actually fruits, but treated as vegetables)
- Green pepper and Red pepper == bell pepper == pimento - seasoning, but that's it! I eat stuffed belle peppers but do NOT eat the pepper itself.
- Chili pepper == Capsicum
- Radicchio
- Rhubarb
- Root vegetables
- Radish
- Swede (UK) == Rutabaga (US)
- Turnip
- Wasabi
- White radish
- Salsify (usually Purple Salsify or Oyster Plant)
- Skirret
- Spinach
- Squashes (actually fruits, but treated as vegetables)
- Acorn squash
- Butternut squash
- Courgette (UK) == Zucchini (US)
- Cucumber (actually fruits, but treated as vegetables)
- Gem squash
- Marrow (UK) == Squash (US) Cucurbita maxima
- Patty pans
- Pumpkin
- Spaghetti squash
- Tat soi
- Tomato (actually a fruit, but treated as a vegetable)
- Tubers
- Jicama
- Jerusalem artichoke
- Potato
- Sweet potato (another name for yams)
- Taro
- Yam
- Water chestnut - only if it's fried in chinese food
- Watercress
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