Vegetables

Vegetables are plant foods, and depending on the type of plant, might refer to the fruits, stalks, leaves or roots of the plant. Fruits are the reproductive portion of a plant, and refer to both sweet fruits such as apples and bananas, as well as non-sweet fruits such as summer squash and avocados. To draw a distinction between them, most people typically refer to sweet fruits as ‘fruits’ (covered separately), and non-sweet fruits as vegetables.