87 things I’ve already eaten (and you probably have too)

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.

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