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The vegetables commonly used in cooking are listed below. Note that some vegetables which are botanically fruits are considered to be vegetables in the culinary sense and are listed here.

• Alfalfa sprouts
• Anise
• Artichoke
• Arugula
• Asparagus
• Aubergine (eggplant)
• Avocado
• Brassicas (cabbage family, or cruciform vegetables)
  • Broccoflower (a hybrid, cross between broccoli and cauliflower)
  • Broccoli
  • Broccolini
  • Broccoli rabe
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Cabbage
  • Cauliflower
  • Romanesco broccoli (broccoflower)
  • Yu choy
  • Choy sum (Chinese leaves)
  • Bok choy (Chinese leaves)
  • Nappa cabbage (Chinese leaves)
  • Collard greens
  • Kohlrabi
• Breadfruit
• Cactus pad (edible cactus)
• Calabrese
• Celery
• Chard (Swiss chard)
• Chicory
• Cucumber
• Eggplant
• Endive
• Edible cactus
• Fennel
• Fiddlehead (young coiled fern leaves)
• Frisee
• Hop shoot
• Kale
• Kangkung
• Legume family (beans and peas)
  • Azuki bean (aka red beans)
  • Beansprouts
  • Black beans (aka turtle beans)
  • Black-eyed peas (aka black-eyed bean, blackeye pea, ...)
  • Borlotti beans
  • Broad beans (aka ful or fava beans)
  • Chickpea (aka garbanzo bean or ceci bean)
  • Green beans
  • Red kidney bean
  • Lentils
  • Lima beans (aka butter beans)
  • Mung beans
  • Navy beans
  • Runner bean
  • Soybean
  • Pea
    • Mangetout or Snap pea
• Lemongrass
• Lettuce Lactuca sativa
• Corn (maize or sweetcorn in the UK)
• Mangetout
• Mustard green
• Nettles
• New Zealand spinach
• Nori (seaweed, actually an alga)
• Okra (aka gumbo, lady fingers or bhindi)
• Onion family
  • Chives
  • Garlic
  • Leek Allium porrum
  • Onion
  • Shallot
  • Spring onion (UK) = green onion or bunching onion (US) = scallion = shallot. (Note that shallot also refers to a different kind of onion.)
• Parsley
• Pepper (capsicum genus)
  • Bell pepper
  • Chili pepper
• Radicchio
• Rhubarb
• Root vegetables (including rhizomes and tubers)
  • Beet (also known as beetroot)
  • Carrot
  • Cassava (also known as manioc or yuca)
  • Celeriac
  • Daikon
  • Ginger
  • Sunchoke (also known as "Jerusalem artichoke", but not at all related to the artichoke)
  • Jicama
  • Parsnip
  • Potato
  • Radish
  • Skirret
  • Rutabaga (also known as swede)
  • Sweet potato (Ipomoea Batatas, known as kumara in New Zealand)
    • Candied Sweet Potatoes
  • Taro root
  • Turnip
  • Wasabi
  • Water chestnut
  • White radish
  • Yam
• Samphire
• Silverbeet (Swiss chard)
• Snap pea
• Spinach
• Squash family
  • Acorn squash
  • Bitter melon
  • Butternut squash (butternut pumpkin in AUS/NZ)
  • Calabaza
  • Chayote
  • Cucumber
  • Gem squash
  • Marrow (UK) = Cucurbita maxima, unrelated to bones (not distinguished from other squash in the US)
  • Patty pan squash
  • Pumpkin
  • Spaghetti squash
  • Zucchini (US/AUS, or courgette in UK/NZ) Tat soi
• Tomatillo
• Tomato
• Watercress