Vitamin-Rich Vegetables
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We need vitamins in small quantities for healthy living and staying fit. Vitamins are required to regulate body metabolism and tissue building. Requirement of vitamins increases with the increase in age. Insufficient amount of vitamins in the body results in vitamin deficiency diseases. This small booklet of 30-pages is intended to provide some insights into vitamin-rich vegetables.
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Vitamin-Rich Vegetables - Roby Jose Ciju
INTRODUCTION
All vegetables are part of plant kingdom. Plant kingdom is first divided into FOUR sub-communities: Thallophyta; Bryophyta; Pteridophyta; and Spermatophyta. All the vegetables are part of the sub-community Spermatophyta. Spermatophyta has two divisions: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. All vegetable plants belong to the group Angiosperms. Group Angiosperms has two ‘Classes’: Moncotyledoneae and Dicotyledoneae. ‘Class’ are further divided into ‘Family’, ‘Genus’, ‘Species’, and ‘Subspecies’, ‘Cultivar’ or ‘Variety’.
Botanical Classification of Vegetables: Botanical classification of vegetables based on two basic classes Monocotyledoneae and Dicotyledonaeae is given below:
Classification of Vegetables Based on Plant Parts Used as Food
Leaves, shoots, stems, immature fruits, flower parts, and underground parts of the plants are generally consumed as vegetables. Based on plant parts used as food, there are FOUR major groups of vegetables: Leafy Vegetables; Fruit Vegetables; Flower Vegetables; and Root Vegetables.
Leafy Vegetables : Edible parts are leaves, shoots and/or stems
Brassica vegetables such as Cabbage, Chinese cabbage, and Kohlrabi, Spinach greens such as New Zealand Spinach and Malabar spinach, Vegetable greens such as Collard greens, Mustard greens, Coriander greens, Beet greens, and