Basic foods

Legumes[edit]

A selection of various legumes

• Edible legumes – legumes are grown agriculturally, primarily for their food grain seed (e.g., beans and lentils, or generally pulse), for livestock forage and silage, and as soil-enhancing green manure. Legumes are notable in that most of them have symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria in structures called root nodules. Well-known legumes include alfalfa, clover, peas, beans, lentils, lupins, mesquite, carob, soybeans, peanuts, and tamarind.

• List of edible seeds
• List of legume dishes
• List of tofu dishes

Edible plants[edit]

• Edible plants

• Fruit – In common language usage, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of a plant that are sweet or sour and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, bananas, and lemons. On the other hand, the botanical sense of "fruit" includes many structures that are not commonly called "fruits", such as bean pods, corn kernels, wheatgrains, and tomatoes.^[2][3]

• List of culinary fruits
• List of citrus fruits
• List of coconut dishes
• List of fruit dishes

• List of apple dishes
• List of avocado dishes
• List of banana dishes
• List of lemon dishes and beverages
• List of melon dishes
• List of plum dishes

• List of garden plants
• List of plants used in South Asian cuisine

• Edible tubers – Not all tubers are edible. Those that are include potatoes, sweet potatoes and yams. Tubers are various types of modified plant structures that are enlarged to store nutrients. They are used by plants to survive the winter or dry months, to provide energy and nutrients for regrowth during the next growing season, and as a means of asexual reproduction.^[4] There are both stem and root tubers.

• List of root vegetables
• List of potato dishes
• List of sweet potato cultivars

• Vegetables – in culinary terms, a vegetable is an edible plant or its part, intended for cooking or eating raw.^[5]

• List of vegetables
• List of leaf vegetables
• List of vegetable dishes

• List of cabbage dishes
• List of carrot dishes
• List of eggplant dishes
• List of onion dishes

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  Several culinary fruits
 
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  Edible tubers – a variety of potatocultivars
 
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  Vegetables