Black carrot
Black carrot is the anthocyanin-pigmented Eastern carrot (Daucus carota var. atrorubens), the purple root that preceded orange types and still colours kanji and şalgam.
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Beetroot
Beetroot is the red taproot of Beta vulgaris. In Poland its soured juice replaced hogweed as the base of barszcz from the eighteenth century, and beet leaven is still made for Christmas Eve.
Redstreak apple
The Redstreak was the famous seventeenth-century cider apple of Herefordshire, linked with Lord Scudamore. A yellow apple streaked with red, it was lost as a distinct variety by the 1880s.
Melon (Cucumis melo)
Cucumis melo, a cultivated melon of the Cucurbitaceae. Its origin is still debated: a review proposes Africa, and the wild melons it discusses are described as non-edible.
Turnip (Brassica rapa)
The turnip, a brassica crop whose roots and leaves are eaten. The source record names the species Brassica rapa, but its wild and naturalised forms are not assessed here.
Wild cherry (Prunus avium)
Prunus avium, the wild or gean cherry of Great Britain and Ireland, bears red summer fruit eaten by birds and used in cherry brandy. Kernel and leaf safety are not settled by the sources read.
Hawthorn
Common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna), a hedgerow shrub whose red haws and young leaves are reported as food, with sources that disagree on raw fruit and leaves.
Falcaria vulgaris (sibekh leaves)
Sibekh is the young leafy growth of Falcaria vulgaris, an Apiaceae herb sold in Yerevan markets and fried with eggs; pickled, dried and canned uses are recorded without methods.
Lowbush blueberry
Lowbush or wild blueberry, Vaccinium angustifolium: a small subshrub of eastern North America whose berries are gathered wild and harvested from managed fields.
Tuberous chervil
Tuberous chervil, Chaerophyllum bulbosum, is a biennial of the carrot family grown for its root in central Europe and gathered for its young leaves in Armenia.
Cowpea leaves
Cowpea leaves are eaten cooked and sun-dried in Botswana, where the dried product is called morogo wa dinawa. Studies of the crop add leaf-removal results and trial-site growing conditions.
Brède morelle leaves
Brède morelle is a cooked leaf vegetable of New Caledonia, linked to Solanum americanum but recorded under the broad name Solanum nigrum. Sources conflict on its safety, and no cooking process is validated.
Woodland strawberry
Woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca) is a small-fruited perennial, picked wild for centuries and distinct from the large cultivated hybrid strawberry. It is eaten raw and in a few historical dishes.
Pacaya palm inflorescences
Pacaya, or tepejilote, is the edible male flower cluster of the palm Chamaedorea tepejilote, eaten in Honduras with egg, in tamales and soups, and sold pickled. Mexican farmers manage the palm in agroforests.
Matiti fruit
Matiti is the fruit of Artabotrys brachypetalus, a Mozambican Annonaceae species. Communities in Chicualacuala District eat the ripe fruit fresh and make traditional drinks and jam from it.
Cloudberry
Cloudberry has distinct Gwich’in, Nunatsiavut, NunatuKavut-area and Québec records. A 2009 cutover-peatland trial reports site-specific rhizome establishment results, not a household pot or fruit-yield method.
Bamboo shoot
Bamboo shoots are the young culms of many bamboo species, eaten after boiling or leaching in Asia, and fermented into sour and preserved foods in the Himalayas, northeast India and Burma.
Medlar
The common medlar, Mespilus germanica, is a small tree whose hard, sour fruit is eaten only after it has bletted, softening through decay into a sweet, apple-sauce-like pulp.
Takana
Takana is Japanese leaf mustard, including Miike takana of Fukuoka: pungent, broad leaves and stems eaten fresh or preserved as pickles.
American elderberry (Sambucus canadensis L.)
Sambucus canadensis is the accepted name used here for American elderberry. Missouri production guidance and named-cultivar studies give useful regional growing information, while food and analytical sources leave process questions open.
Rhubarb stalk
Rhubarb stalks are the tart leaf petioles of garden rhubarb, eaten as a vegetable and used in sweet dishes and wines; they lend a must sharpness and aroma but little sugar.
Plantain
Plantains are starchy cooking bananas used green through fully ripe. Their firmness and sweetness shift with maturity, and ripe mashed fruit appears in a University of Rhode Island Liberian rice-bread adaptation.
Pear
Pears are Pyrus fruits used fresh, pressed for perry, or crushed for fruit spirits; cultivar, species and ripening stage shape each preparation.
Cacao pulp
Cacao pulp is the moist, sweet-acid mucilage around cacao seeds. It fuels bean fermentation and can be extracted for fruit drinks, wine and vinegar.
Pineapple
Pineapple is a sweet-tart tropical multiple fruit whose fresh flesh and peel supply sugars and acids to fruit ferments, while cultivar and maturity shape the balance.
Enset (Ensete ventricosum)
Enset is an Ethiopian staple crop grown for its starchy corm and pseudostem. Fermented kocho, extracted bulla and boiled amicho are distinct foods from the plant.
Grape
Wine grapes are fresh berries selected for vinification; their sugars fuel alcoholic fermentation, while cultivar, ripeness and handling shape the fruit and the wine it can become.
Cassava
Cassava is the starchy root of Manihot esculenta, transformed across Africa into fermented doughs, granules and flours through distinct processes whose safety depends on thorough cyanogen removal.
Tart plums (cherry plums)
Cherry plums (Prunus cerasifera) are small, malic-acid-rich plums, red, yellow or green, that give Georgian tkemali sauce its sharp, fruity sourness.
Ripe banana
A ripe banana is sweet, soft pulp in which ripening has turned most of the starch into sugar. That sugar and softness make it a base for banana ketchup, beer, wine and vinegar.
Pomegranate
The pomegranate (Punica granatum) is a seed-filled fruit whose arils run from sweet to sharply sour, depending on citric acid. Sour fruit becomes juice, molasses and dried anardana.
Quince
A fragrant, usually yellow pome with firm, tart and astringent flesh, cooked for tender fruit dishes, jelly and dense quince paste.
Solanum torvum fruit and leaves
An East Akim survey reports fruit and leaf use in soups and stews; a separate Cape Coast experiment grew a selected seed accession. External poisoning reports do not establish Ghanaian incidence or a safe preparation method.
Viha seed and tuber
Madagascar sources document distinct seed and tuber food accounts for this wetland aroid; greenhouse cultivation data come from a botanical display, not food production.
Totora as food
Aymara records from Lake Titicaca describe totora as food, with separate reports of rhizomes and the basal tutura stem; later planting evidence comes from a wastewater lagoon.
Duruka inflorescence
Fiji crop accounts call the edible inflorescence crop Saccharum edule; this crop-name concept remains unresolved in current botanical treatments.
Water bamboo stems
In Taiwan and Hong Kong food sources, jiaobai is the swollen stem of Zizania latifolia associated with Ustilago esculenta. It is distinct from the grain called North American wild rice, and the plant-fungus association is not food fermentation.
Madake bamboo shoots
Japanese sources identify madake, Phyllostachys bambusoides, as a historically eaten bamboo shoot and describe a regional emergence season. Kew uses P. reticulata for the accepted-name treatment, while other floras retain P. bambusoides; species-specific food processing and household cultivation details remain unresolved.
Nakati greens
Ugandan Nakati sources describe the leafy Shum group of a species that also includes fruit, dual-use and ornamental groups. Regional cultivation and a small pickling study offer context, but neither establishes universal crop limits or a validated home preservation method.
Solanum macrocarpon leaves and fruit
A historical Ghana flora account reports leaf and fruit use, while a Cape Coast fertilizer experiment supplies one accession and one-site growing data. Its abstract and detailed yield results conflict.
Genjer greens
Genjer is an aquatic leafy vegetable used in parts of Java; food and growing reports describe differing plant parts and cultivation settings.
Japanese butterbur stalks and flower heads
Fuki is eaten as leaf stalks and spring flower heads; Japanese sources describe seasonal food use, water-based preparation and region-specific growing guidance.
Chicory greens and roots
Cichorium intybus is grown for several distinct foods: bitter leaves, headed chicory, winter-forced chicons and roasted-root coffee substitutes. The crop type and source region matter.
Moringa leaves
Source-linked accounts describe Moringa oleifera food uses in several regions, including Mauritius, alongside cultivation figures with their local scope made explicit.
Japanese udo shoots
Japanese udo is Aralia cordata, eaten as wild shoots and leaves or cultivated blanched stems, with separate home-garden and commercial forcing guidance.
Jute mallow leaves
Jute mallow is documented in Kenyan, Egyptian and Malawian food and crop sources. Its preparation and growing evidence remains specific to each source.
New Zealand spinach greens
Kōkihi, New Zealand spinach or warrigal greens (Tetragonia tetragonoides): a coastal leaf vegetable of Australia and New Zealand, eaten after blanching because of its oxalic acid.
Malabar spinach greens
Malabar spinach, Basella alba, called alugbati in the Philippines, is a climbing leaf vegetable cooked in soups and stews. In New Caledonia an 1872 record shows it grown for dye.
Ora-pro-nóbis leaves
Embrapa documents ora-pro-nóbis as a leafy cactus used in parts of Minas Gerais and Goiás, with species-specific planting and harvest guidance and clear gaps around climate limits and food-safety validation.
Waterleaf greens
Waterleaf leaves and shoots are recorded as cooked vegetables and sauce thickeners in Nigeria, and in Thai soup and fried dishes; growing reports vary by source and setting.