Welp, I said I was going to try to update almost every day, and here we are over a month later! In my defense, I did go through a major life change and have a completely new job now (I went from “physics PhD student” to “software engineer at an S&P 500 company”). But that’s no excuse – it should be this short, easy, and unstressful thing to eat something new and fire off a quick blog post.
To make up for lost time, here’s not one, but 87 plant foods I’ve eaten already, and that I don’t feel the need to post about individually because almost everyone in my part of the world has eaten them too.
I’ll only do this once – even if I think of something later like “D’oh! I should have put that on the big list; everyone’s eaten that!” I’ll still make a complete post about it.
Staple foods:
- Corn
- Oat
- Rice
- Soybean (also a legume)
- Sugar cane (as sugar)
- Wheat
Citrus:
- Grapefruit
- Lemon
- Lime
- Mandarin
- Orange
Stone fruits:
- Apricot
- Cherry
- Nectarine
- Peach
- Plum
Other culinary fruits:
- Apple
- Banana (fruit, not flowerbud or other parts)
- Blackberry
- Blueberry
- Cantaloupe
- Cranberry
- Grape
- Honeydew melon
- Pear
- Pineapple
- Raspberry
- Strawberry
- Watermelon
Vegetables that are the fruit of a plant:
- Avocado
- Bell pepper
- Cucumber
- Green bean
- Summer squash
- Tomato
- Winter squash
Leaf vegetables:
- Cabbage
- Kale
- Lettuce
- Spinach
Bulb, inflorescence, or stem vegetables:
- Asparagus
- Broccoli
- Brussels sprout
- Cauliflower
- Celery
- Onion
Root vegetables:
- Beet
- Carrot
- Potato
- Radish
- Sweet potato
Legumes:
- Black bean
- Chickpea
- Kidney bean
- Lentil
- Lima bean
- Pea
- Peanut (also a culinary nut)
- Pinto bean
- Soybean (also a staple)
Culinary nuts:
- Almond
- Cashew
- Peanut (also a legume)
- Walnut
Oil crops:
- Coconut
- Olive
- Palm oil
- Rapeseed
- Safflower
- Sesame
- Sunflower
Herbs:
- Basil
- Dill
- Oregano
- Parsley
- Rosemary
- Sage
- Thyme
Spices:
- Black pepper
- Chili pepper
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Mustard seed (or as prepared mustard)
- Peppermint (oil)
- Vanilla (extract)
Drug-like foods:
- Barley (as beer)
- Cocoa
- Coffee
- Tea
And that’s about it! There’s a bunch of plants I’ve already eaten that aren’t on here, because I think they’re interesting/uncommon enough to merit their own posts. But this gets a lot of really common stuff out of the way.