List of vegetables


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 fruit vegetables such as cucumbers, eggplants, okra, peppers, pumpkins, squash and tomatoes. It does not include herbs, spices, cereals, culinary fruits, culinary nuts, edible fungi.
Legal vegetables are defined for regulatory, tax and other purposes. An example would include the tomato, which is botanically a berry, but culinarily a vegetable according to the United States.

Leafy and salad vegetables

Fruit vegetables

Chili peppers

Edible flowers

Podded vegetables

Bulb and stem vegetables

Root and tuberous vegetables

Sea vegetables