Module 1. Thinking about edible plants and Module 3. Profiling a Vegetable ©Gwyneth Marsh 2007
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Module 1. Thinking about edible plants and
Module 3. Profiling a Vegetable
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Vegetable Variety
• Vegetables come in all shapes, sizes, flavours textures and colours.
• We eat different parts of plants.
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RootsSome vegetables are biennial plants.
We eat the root which is the plants food store from which it grows a flower and seeds the next year.
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Turnip Beetroot Parsnip
Carrot
StemsWe eat the stems of plants like celery and fennel.
Asparagus is a stem and tender shoot.
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Fennel Celery Asparagus
Leaves
The leaves of cabbage, lettuce, spinach and rocket can be eaten raw and cooked.
Cabbage RocketLettuce
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FlowersBroccoli and cauliflower are flowers that have
not yet opened.
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Cauliflower Broccoli
FruitsTomatoes, aubergines and peppers are the fruits of
plants. If you cut them open you can see the seeds inside.
Tomatoes Aubergines Sweet peppers
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SeedsWe can eat the seeds and pods of runner beans, French beans, peas and broad beans.
French beans Peas Broad beans
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Oddities
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Some plant parts are poisonous.
Potato fruits look like tomatoes but we cannot
eat them.
We can eat the tubers that are the swollen
underground stems of the potato plant.
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Onions Onions are bulbs. They are the swollen part of the leaf that stores food ready for the plant to grow and flower. We eat them before they flower. Leeks and spring onions are in the onion family.
Leek
Onion
Spring onion
Red onion
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Plants as Food
Not all plants are edible.
Some that we eat, vegetables, have been grown for thousands of years.
If you see a plant that you think might be a vegetable check with an adult before you eat it.
Wash vegetables well, they may have soil on them.
Enjoy Eating VegetablesVegetables help to keep us healthy by providing our bodies with vitamins, minerals and fibre.
Look at their different shapes, colours, flavours and textures – investigate.
Enjoy eating them!
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