In everyday life, words are often used vegetable Y vegetable What synonymsbut differences exist that distinguish them.
According to the RAE, a vegetable is a “vegetable, especially green leaves” while a vegetable is an edible plant that is grown, most of the time, in a garden. From this, it can be inferred that all vegetables are vegetables, but not all vegetables are vegetables.
The vegetables being the whole set of cultivated plants in most cases in orchards or irrigated, which are consumed as food, either raw or cooked. Vegetables include the bulbs, leaves, and roots of vegetables. Some examples of vegetables are onion, garlic, spinach, artichoke, carrot, basil, pumpkin and beetroot.
The vegetablesinstead, are the green part of the vegetable. In other words, vegetables are just young stems or leaves. They can be eaten raw or cooked. Some examples of vegetables are lettuce, Swiss chard, and kale. It includes in the same category cauliflower and broccoli, of which we consume the flowers. Likewise, it also includes green legumes such as broad beans, peas, green beans or soybeans.
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Meanwhile, it could be said that the term vegetable is proper to food industrywhile vegetable is used more in botanical sector and in horticulture. In this sense, “vegetable” is a broader and more inclusive concept than “vegetable”, since it encompasses leafy foods and tender stems, while vegetables include fruits, stems, roots and seeds. .
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