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Carrots and Celery: Types of Vegetables  
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These are the different types of vegetables that exist. Know any others?

	Artichoke - a tight head of fleshy leaves, delicious with lemon butter
	Asparagus - tender green tips available during a short growing season
	Beans - high protien seeds of legume plants
	Beet - Tubers with rich nutty flavours. A sweet variety of beet is grown commercially in europe and asia for sugar manufacture.
	Broccoli - green and delicious and full of vitamins
	Brussels sprouts - traditionally eaten with Christmas Dinner in the UK
	Cabbage - the king of vegetables. Easy to grow almost anywhere
	Carrot - Introduced by the Romans, carrots have been popular for 2000 Years
	Cauliflower - White relative of broccoli
	Celery - Slightly bitter (unless blanched) european stalks with a distinctive flavour, used in salads, stews and soups.
	Corn - North American native vegetable considered sacred by many native tribes. Confusingly corn is also the word used to describe the seeds of wheat and barley.
	Cucumbers - related to courgettes and traditionally used raw in salads. The cucumber grows quickly and holds lots of water
	Lettuce - lots of green leaves used as a mainstay of salads. Varieties such as round, isberg, lollo rosso and radichio are popular.
	Melons - Wonderful fruits with a high water content. There are many farmed varieties . All have seeds surrounded by rich, watery but sweet flesh that is encased in a fairly hard shell.
	Mushrooms - Mushrooms do not use sunlight to produce energy, hence they have a completely different range of tastes than any other vegetable.
	Onions - Onions have been eaten for tens of thousands of years and we still aren't bored of them.
	Peas - best eated within minutes of picking as the sugars rapidly turn to starch. Therefore frozen peas often taste better than 'fresh' peas.
	Peppers - These are the fruit of the Capsicum family of plants. The hotter tasting ones (due to more Capsaicinoids in the flesh) are usually refered to as chillis.
	Potatoes - Nothing finer than a steaming plate of mashed potatoes. An american staple crop that as been exported all over the world.
	Pumpkins - A popular gourd vegetable used in cooking and to make halloween jack o lanterns.
	Radish - rich in ascorbic acid (vitamin C), folic acid (folate), and Potassium, the raddish is a peppery vegetable popular in western and asian cookery. We usually eat the taproot, but the leaves can also be eaten in salads.
	Rhubarb - A plant with large leaves that grow out of thick succulent stems with a very particular floral scent.
	Spinach -large green leaves wilt easily in a pan and are often served with a little butter and nutmeg as an accompanying vegetable. Spinach contains lots of healthy trace minerals including iron
	Sweetcorn - a north american native plant loved throughout the world.
	Tomatoes - not technically a vegetable, but a fruit. Tomatoes are best grown yourself because the uniform flavourless powdery fruits available in supermarkets are not worth eating.
	Turnips - Root vegetable will grow in cold climates.
	Watermelon - Sweet tasting gourd reaches enourmous size and definitely the most refreshing fruit there is.
	Yams - Sweet starchy tuber that are popular in African, Carribean and American cookery

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Source: Chris' Cookery

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