774 17 Vegetables and Vegetable Products
Table 17.1.
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Number
Common name
Latin name
Class, order, family
Consumed as
Seed vegetables
58
Chestnut
Castanea sativa
Fagaceae
Cooked as a vegetable, roasted, or
milled into a flour
and used in soups
and bread doughs
59
Green beans
Phaseolus vulgaris
Fabaceae
The immature pod is cooked as a vegetable
or is steamed or pickled for salads
60
Green peas
Pisum sativum ssp. sativum
Fabaceae
The rounded smooth or (wrinkled)
Green seeds are cooked as a vegetableor are steamed/cooked for salads
Fruity vegetables
61
Eggplant
Solanum melongena
Solanaceae
Steamed as a vegetable
62
Garden squash
Cucurbita pepo
Cucurbitaceae
Cooked as a compote or as a vegetable
63
Green bell pepper
Capsicum annuum
Solanaceae
Eaten raw in salads, or is cooked,
steamed or baked
64
Cucumber
Cucumis sativus
Cucurbitaceae
Eaten raw in salads, cooked as
a vegetable or pickled
65
Okra
Abelmoschus esculentus
Malvaceae
Its mucilaginous green pods are cooked
as a vegetable in soups or stewed, oreaten as a salad
66
Tomato
Lycopersicon lycopersicum
Solanaceae
The reddish pulpy berry is eaten raw, in
salads, cooked as a vegetable, used asa paste or seasoned puree; immaturegreen tomatoes are pickled and theneaten as salad
67
Zucchini
Cucurbita pepo convar. giromontiina
Cucurbitaceae
The cylindrical dark green fruits are
peeled and cooked as a vegetable