Food Chemistry

772 17 Vegetables and Vegetable Products

Table 17.1.

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Number

Common name

Latin name

Class, order, family

Consumed as

23

White (Irish) potato

Solanum tuberosum

Solanaceae

Cooked, fried or deep fried in many

forms, or unpeeled baked, also forstarch and alcohol production

24

Celery tuber

Apium graveolens,

Apiaceae

Cooked as salad, and cooked and

var. rapaceum

fried as a vegetable

25

Kohlrabi,

Brassica oleracea convar

.

Brassicaceae

Eaten raw or cooked as a vegetable

turnip cabbage

acephala var. gongylodes

26

Rutabaga

Brassica napus var. naprobrassica

Brassicaceae

Cooked as a vegetable

27

Radish (reddish round root)

Raphanus sativus var

.

Brassicaceae

The pungent fleshy root is eaten raw,

sativus/var. niger

usually salted

28

Red beet, beetroot

Beta vulgaris spp

.

Chenopodiaceae

Cooked as a salad

vulgaris var. conditiva

Tuberous (rhizomatic) vegetables

29

Sweet potatoes

Ipomoea batatas

Convolvulaceae

Cooked, fried or baked

30

Cassava (manioc)

Manihot esculenta

Euphorbiaceae

Cooked or roasted

31

Yam

Dioscorea

Dioscoreaceae

Cooked or roasted

Bulbous rooty vegetables

32

Vegetable fennel

Foeniculum vulgare

Apiaceae

Eaten raw as salad, cooked as a vegetable

var. azoricum

33

Garlic

Allium sativum

Liliaceae

Raw, cooked as seasoning

34

Onion

Allium cepa

Liliaceae

Eaten raw, fried as seasoning, cooked

as a vegetable

34a

Leek

Allium porrum

Liliaceae

The pungent succulent leaves and

thick cylindrical stalk are cookedas a vegetable

Stem (shoot) vegetables

35

Bamboo roots

Bambusa vulgaris

Poaceae

Cooked for salads

36

Asparagus

Asparagus officinalis

Liliaceae

Young shoots cooked as a vegetable

or eaten as salad

Leafy (stalk) vegetables

37

Celery

Apium graveolens var. dulce

Apiaceae

Leafy crispy stalks eaten raw as salad,

or are cooked as vegetable

38

Rhubarb

Rheum rhabarbarum,

Polygonaceae

Large thick and succulent petioles are cooked

Rheum rhaponticum

as preserves or baked; used as a pie filling