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Leaf vegetables, also called potherbs, greens, or leafy greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable, sometimes accompanied by tender petioles and shoots. Although they come from a very wide variety of plants, most share a great deal with other leaf vegetables in nutrition and cooking methods. Nearly one thousand species of plants with edible leaves are known. Leaf vegetables most often come from short-lived herbaceous plants such as lettuce and spinach. Woody plants whose leaves can be eaten as leaf vegetables include Adansonia, Aralia, Moringa, Morus, and Toona species. The leaves of many fodder crops are also edible by humans, but usually only eaten under famine conditions. Examples include alfalfa, clover, and most grasses, including wheat and barley. These plants are often much more prolific than more traditional leaf vegetables, but exploitation of their rich nutrition is difficult, primarily because of their high fiber content. This obstacle can be overcome by further processing such as drying and grinding into powder or pulping and pressing for juice. During the first half of the 20th century many grocery stores with vegetable sections sold small bunches of herbs tied with a string to small green and red peppers known as "potherbs."
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1. Steamed Food and Fried Rice
June 27, 2008
Samples include steamed minced beef ball, fish ball, steamed chicken with fish maw, steamed beancurd sheet roll with chicken, steamed beancurd sheet roll with duck feet, vegetable dumpling, Chiu Chow-style steamed dumpling, steamed fresh prawn dumpling, steamed stuffed dumpling, pork rib, chicken feet, steamed beancurd sheet roll, steamed glutinous rice roll, mini-sized sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaf and sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaf, steamed barbecued pork bun, steamed egg custard bun, steamed pumpkin bun, steamed sweet molten bun, steamed vegetable and meat bun, steamed lotus seed pas... (read more)
Author: jaffar aashik
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2. Go Green On St. Patrick's Day And Beyond
March 16, 2007
This St Patrick’s Day, instead of downing drinks at the local tavern, proudly wearing your 4-leaf clover, and singing Irish anthems all night, celebrate the day by eating green fruits and vegetables. (Yes, you heard correctly.)
Start your own green tradition. Get a good supply of vitamins, minerals, water and antioxidants daily. Here are some green ideas:
1. Increase fiber with broccoli.
2. Vary your leafy greens – the darker the better.
3. Choose vitamin K for increased bone health – good source of this found in greens.
4. Improve cholesterol with avocado - contain go... (read more)
Author: chester ku-lea
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3. The Vegetable Kingdom
July 11, 2006
During centuries, the habitants of the Latin American countries have taken advantage of the diverse species regional flora, which have taken advantage of the same to feed themselves that to cure themselves and to adapt to means. The cocaine leaf The first time which I traveled to Bolivia I called to a civil employee of our embassy as soon as I settled in the hotel. After giving the welcome it surprised to me with a suggestion: "It requests that they prepare a cocaine tea to him". To cross Bolivian earth took to understand the importance to me that has the leaf venerated one that I saw th... (read more)
Author: Jose Luis Valcarcel
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