What vegetables do people often eat?

There are eight kinds of vegetables that people often eat:

1) Cruciferae: including radish, turnip, Chinese cabbage (including Chinese cabbage and Chinese cabbage subspecies), cabbage (including varieties of cabbage, kohlrabi, cauliflower and broccoli), mustard (including varieties of mustard and potherb mustard), etc.

2) Umbelliferae: including celery, carrot, fennel, coriander, etc.

3) Solanaceae: including tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, etc.

4) Cucurbitaceae: including cucumber, zucchini, pumpkin, bamboo shoots, wax gourd, loofah, gourd, bitter gourd, bergamot, watermelon and melon.

5) Leguminosae: including kidney bean (including dwarf kidney bean and vine variety), cowpea, pea, broad bean, edamame (namely soybean), lentil, sword bean, etc.

6) Liliaceae: including leek, scallion, onion, garlic, leek, day lily, asparagus, lily, etc.

7) Compositae: including lettuce (including lettuce and lettuce varieties), lettuce, chrysanthemum, burdock, Jerusalem artichoke, etc.

8) Chenopodiaceae: including spinach and beet (root beet and leaf beet varieties).

Extended data:

1. Vegetable refers to a plant or fungus that can be cooked and cooked into food. Vegetables are one of the essential foods in people's daily diet. Vegetables can provide a variety of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients needed by the human body. According to FAO 1990 statistics, 90% of VC and 60% of VA necessary for human body come from vegetables.

2. Cruciferae cabbage vegetables: such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, leaf cabbage, kale, etc. Contains indole (13C) sulforaphane, isothiocyanate, carotenoid, vitamin C, etc. It has a good effect on preventing and treating tumors and cardiovascular diseases, especially broccoli.

3. Asparagus is rich in glutathione and folic acid, which plays a good role in preventing neural tube defects and tumors in newborns.

4. Carrots are rich in carotenoids and a lot of soluble cellulose, which is beneficial to protect eyes, improve vision, lower blood cholesterol and reduce the incidence of cancer and cardiovascular diseases.

5. Flavonoids, isoflavones, protease inhibitors, inositol, soybean saponin, vitamin B, etc. contained in soybeans, edamame, black beans and other beans have a good effect on lowering blood cholesterol, regulating blood sugar, reducing cancer incidence, and preventing cardiovascular diseases and diabetes.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-vegetables