Vegetables

📖 In short

Vegetables are foods we get from different parts of plants: leaves, roots, stems, seeds and flowers. We eat them fresh in salads or cooked in meals and soups. They're among the most important foods for our health.

🤩 Did you know?

Growing vegetables to sell takes four steps: planting, caring, harvesting, and packing and shipping.
Doctors advise eating vegetables and fruit several times a day.
Wash vegetables well before eating them.
You can grow some vegetables at home, like mint and parsley.

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🌟 Parts we eat

We eat the leaves of lettuce, spinach and cabbage, the roots of carrots, radishes and beetroot, celery stalks, the seeds of peas and broad beans, the flowers of cauliflower and broccoli, and potato tubers.

🔍 A rainbow on your plate

Try to eat vegetables in lots of colors: green, red, orange, yellow and purple. Each color has different vitamins and useful substances.

💡 Why are they important?

Vegetables are full of vitamins and minerals that protect you from illness, and fiber that helps your stomach and intestines work well.

🎯 From field to table

Farmers grow vegetables, look after them and water them, then harvest, pack and send them to market. That's why we shouldn't throw food away.

🧩 Test yourself

1 Which part of a lettuce do we eat?

2 Why eat vegetables of different colors?

3 Which picture shows “Vegetables”?

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📷 Picture sources: Wikimedia Commons

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