Parts of plants and used as vegetables

• Roots - these are underground parts of plants which include sweet potato, cassava, carrot, radish, turnip, sugar beets, and purple yam or ube.
• Tubers - these are short, thickened, fleshy parts of an underground stem such as Irish potatoes and Jerusalem artichokes.
• Seeds - these are parts from which a new plant will grow which include legumes or beans such as mungo beans, broad beans, garbanzos or chickpeas, paayap or cowpeas, soybeans, white beans, lima beans, and kidney beans.
• Bulbs - these are underground buds that are made of very short stems covered with layers such as garlic, onion, chives, leeks, and shallots.
• Leaves - these include the onion family such as spring onion, leeks, scallion and a wide variety of leaves such as sili leaves, ampalaya, alugbati, spinach, kang kong or swamp cabbage, kintsay or Filipino celery, celery lettuce or letsugas, mustasa or mustard, petsay or Chinese cabbage.
• Stems and Shoots - these are the stalks supporting the leaves, flowers, or fruits. They include the sterns of the leaves of kangkong, celery, kintsay, alugbati, lettuce, mustard, and petsay. They also include bamboo shoots or labong and coconut pith o ubod.
• Fruits - these include those cooked as viands such as ampalaya, patola, upo, kalabasa, kamatis, langkang hilaw, bell pepper, and siling pansigang.
• Flowers - these are bulaklak ng kalabasa, bulaklak ng saging, cauliflower, puso ng saging, and katuray or sesban flower.