VARIETIES:
Depending on the part of the plant eaten, vegetables are divided into:
- Fruit vegetables: cucumber, zucchini, squash, pepper, eggplant, tomatoes;
- Flower vegetables: artichoke (vegetable rich in iron and vitamin C), cauliflower, broccoli, and asparagus. The wild asparagus grows spontaneously in the spring;
- Seed vegetables: legumes (fava, pea, bean, chick pea, grass pea, lupine) rich in starch and proteins;
- Leaf vegetables: lettuce, radicchio, endive, borage, spinach, long stemmed Italian chicory, cabbage, chard;
- Stem vegetables: celery, fennel, cardoon;
- Root vegetables: radish, carrot, wild carrot, beet, turnip, rutabaga;
- Tuber vegetables: potato, Jerusalem artichoke;
- Bulb vegetables: onion, garlic, shallot, leek, spring onion.
MATURATION:
April 1 – December 31
MARKETING:
April 1 – December 31
HEALTH BENEFITS:
Vegetables can provide good quantities of vitamins, mineral salts, fiber, essential oils and enzymes important to the body.