Chinese cabbage

Swiss chard

Leaf vegetables, also called greens or leafy greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots. Although they come from a very wide variety of plants, most share a great deal with other leaf vegetables in nutrition and cooking methods. Brassica rapa L.: Common Names: Celery cabbage, Chinese cabbage, Pe-tsai, Nappa Cabbage Description: Green leaves with broad pale green petioles, thick dense puckered texture. ... Brassica rapa L.: Common Names: Celery cabbage, Chinese cabbage, Pe-tsai, Nappa Cabbage Description: Green leaves with broad pale green petioles, thick dense puckered texture. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (779x841, 41 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (779x841, 41 KB) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ... Vegetables in a market Vegetable is a culinary term denoting any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is not regarded as a culinary grain, fruit, nut, herb, or spice. ... A petiole (also called a pedicel) is the first abdominal segment of members of the Apocrita. ... In botany, a shoot is more or less synonamous with the term stem For biological and botanical definitions and information, see the main article on stems Shoots function in providing an axis for buds, fruits and leaves. ... Nutrition is a science which studies the relationship between diet and states of health and disease. ... See also: Wikibooks Cookbook Cooking is the act of preparing food for consumption. ...

Leaf vegetables most often come from short-lived herbaceous plants such as lettuce and spinach. Woody plants whose leaves can be eaten as leaf vegetables include Adansonia, Aralia, Moringa, Morus, and Toona species. A herb (pronounced hurb in Commonwealth English and urb in American English) is a plant grown for culinary, medicinal, or in some cases even spiritual value. ... Binomial name Lactuca sativa L. Lettuce is a temperate annual or biannual plant most often grown as a leaf vegetable. ... Binomial name Spinacia oleracea L. Spinach (Spinacia oleracea) is a flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae, native to central and southwestern Asia. ... The baobabs (Adansonia) are a genus of eight species of trees, native to Madagascar (the centre of diversity, with six species), and Africa and Australia (one species in each). ... Species See text Aralia is a genus of the plant family Araliaceae, consisting of about 40 species of deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs, and some rhizomatous perennials. ... Species Moringa arborea Moringa borziana Moringa concanensis Moringa drouhardii Moringa hilldebrandtii Moringa longituba Moringa oleifera Moringa ovalifolia Moringa peregrina Moringa pygmaea Moringa rivae Moringa ruspoliana Moringa stenopetala Moringa is the only genus in the family Moringaceae. ... Morus is actually the name of two completely unrelated genera: Morus the gannet, a seabird Morus the mulberry, a fruit tree This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... species (Toona australis - Australian Redcedar, usually included in ) Toona calantas - kalantas Toona ciliata - toon, suren Toona sinensis - timber is known as suren, sometimes grown as an ornamental without an accepted common name. ...

The leaves of many fodder crops are also edible by humans, but usually only eaten under famine conditions. Examples include alfalfa, clover, and most grasses, including wheat and barley. These plants are often much more prolific than more traditional leaf vegetables, but exploitation of their rich nutrition is difficult, primarily because of their high fiber content. This obstacle can be overcome by further processing such as drying and grinding into powder or pulping and pressing for juice. In agriculture, fodder or animal feed is any foodstuff that is used specifically to feed livestock, such as cattle, sheep, chickens and pigs. ... A famine is a phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population of a region or country are so undernourished that death by starvation becomes increasingly common. ... Species Medicago arabica Medicago heldreichii Medicago hybrida Medicago laciniata Medicago littoralis Medicago lupulina Medicago minima Medicago monantha Medicago monspeliaca Medicago orbicularis Medicago polymorpha Medicago praecox Medicago rigidula Medicago rugosa Medicago ruthenica Medicago sativa Medicago scutellata Medicago secundiflora Medicago truncatula Medicago turbinata Ref: ITIS 183622 as of 2002-07-31 For... Clover (Trifolium) is a genus of about 300 species of plants in the pea family Fabaceae. ... Subfamilies There are 7 subfamilies: Subfamily Arundinoideae Subfamily Bambusoideae Subfamily Centothecoideae Subfamily Chloridoideae Subfamily Panicoideae Subfamily Pooideae Subfamily Stipoideae The true grasses are monocotyledonous plants (Class Liliopsida) in the Family Poaceae, also known as Gramineae. ... Species T. boeoticum T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta References:   ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 Wheat (Triticum spp. ... Binomial name Hordeum vulgare L. Barley (Hordeum vulgare) is a major food and animal feed crop, a member of the grass family Poaceae. ...

Nutrition

Leaf vegetables are typically low in calories, low in fat, high in protein per calorie, high in dietary fiber, high in iron and calcium, and very high in phytochemicals such as vitamin C, vitamin A, lutein and folic acid. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A representation of the 3D structure of myoglobin, showing coloured alpha helices. ... Dietary fibers are the indigestible portion of plant foods that move food through the digestive system and absorb water. ... General Name, Symbol, Number iron, Fe, 26 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 8, 4, d Appearance lustrous metallic with a grayish tinge Atomic mass 55. ... General Name, Symbol, Number calcium, Ca, 20 Chemical series alkaline earth metals Group, Period, Block 2, 4, s Appearance silvery white Atomic mass 40. ... Phytochemicals are sometimes referred to as phytonutrients; these terms are often used interchangeably. ... Chemical structure of vitamin C. Vitamin C is a water-soluble nutrient essential for life, used by the human body for many purposes. ... Retinol, the dietary form of vitamin A, is a fat-soluble, antioxidant vitamin important in vision and bone growth. ... Lutein (LOO-teen) is one of over 600 known naturally occurring carotenoids. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this articles references may require cleanup. ...

Preparation

Most leaf vegetables can be eaten raw, for example in salads. They may also be stir-fried, stewed or steamed. A salad is a food item generally served either before or after the main dish as a separate course, as a main course in itself, or as a side dish accompanying the main dish. ... Stir frying is a common Chinese cooking technique used because of its fast cooking speed. ... A stew is a common food made of vegetables and meat in some sort of broth or sauce. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

Leaf vegetables stewed with pork are a traditional dish in soul food, and southern U.S. cuisine. Two halves of a pig being delivered Pork is the meat taken from pigs. ... Soul Food is a 1997 film, produced by Kenneth Babyface Edmonds, Tracey Edmonds, and Robert Teitel, and released by Fox 2000 Pictures. ... The Southern United States has a distinct cuisine that draws heavily on influences of the various groups that have inhabited the area. ...

External links

• Leaf for Life — lists of and information about many leaf vegetables