Are You a Veggie Lover? See If You Can Answer All of These Questions About Vegetables!

Many nutrients are in the skin, along with most of the fiber. However, the entire potato is nutritious, especially if you don't boil it.

It's a fruit actually, and it's the tomato! Of course it is; it's the one that goes in pizza, pasta sauce, and lots of other dishes that very often strip out many of the advantages of having a veggie in the first place! You may have guessed that the most popular veg is the potato.

Carrots are high in carotenoids! However, so are these vegetables, as well as tomatoes. They're a pigment that give these veggies their lovely colors - and they are good for you.

All of these mainstay cereal crops have gluten. Gluten is the delicious stuff that makes the breads and other products we create from these crops so divine. Fortunately, there are plenty of gluten-free alternatives that have very similar properties for those who can't live without a lovely fluffy bread.

It's California! This state has a wonderful climate (for now) for growing things. With climate change, the issue is going to be water; there simply isn't enough in the Colorado river any more. Salination and irrigation will be increasingly necessary.

Baked potatoes are nearly foolproof to make and good for you! They contain plenty of fiber, which keeps you nice and regular.

Late blight is a disease that can infect tomatoes or potatoes, and it is a killer! It resulted in a lot of Irish having to flee their land, due to famine.

The Native American empires of South America are the ones we have to thank for all the white potatoes. In fact, potatoes and peppers of many types that we consider essential to our cuisine originated in their cultivation.

In 1893, this actually made it all the way to the Supreme Court. They ruled that it is a vegetable because people think it is, a level of reasoning so hilariously low that it explains a lot about the way government sometimes works! As with so many things, it was really all about how you classify it for customs and tax purposes.

A cucumber's rind can work as an eraser! We know cucumbers are bad weapons and metronomes, and we don't actually know if they work as a bong; you will have to ask a friend from Colorado.

Corn is actually in the grass family. Not all grass is as neat as a lawn; in fact, grass comes in all shapes and sizes, depending on the climate and many other factors.

A Native American name for garlic is "chicagoua," so the city is named for the delicious root vegetable.. Perhaps that's why the windy city is so windy?

It was wheat! Human civilization began when wheat was domesticated and humans were able to get enough nutrition regularly to have leisure time to invent things.

Sugar cane, maize, rice, wheat and potatoes are the top five. Oats are a major staple crop, but not in the top five!

Cabbage is a great source of vitamin K. People are often not very good at making cabbage, but if you do it right, it's delicious!

Orange carrots became popular because of the House of Orange in Holland. However, many colors are natural for carrots and they each have slightly different medicinal and nutritional properties. Try them - they're delicious!

Plaintain is one of the most popular crops in the world. They are delicious whether sweet or savory.

It's technically true that celery - and also grapefruit - takes more calories to digest than it brings to your body in the first place. It's insignificant, however.

Capsaicin is amazing stuff: it kills pain, reduces inflammation and helps prevent blood clots. So eat your peppers. Watch out for the heat, though!

This myth dates back to World War II. The British Royal Air Force had developed a new-fangled technology called "radar" that they were using to see in the dark. They didn't want the Nazis to know about it, so they claimed they were just eating a lot of carrots. It's pure propaganda.

Technically these are all fruits. So are pumpkin and zucchini. Our minds are blown!

Vitamin C has many benefits, one of which is helping your body naturally keep up your iron levels. Women in particular are prone to low iron, meaning vitamin C is doubly essential for women to eat.

It sounds counter-intuitive that two cereal crops with the words "corn" and "wheat" in their names don't contain gluten, but they don't. There is something called "corn gluten" in corn, but it's not the same kind of gluten that you get in wheat, barley and rye.

This is just clever branding. A Swiss botanist thought the chard would sound classy if it were Swiss, so he named it accordingly.

The potato is the main export of the great state of Idaho now, but it was not always grown there. Missionaries heading west brought it with them when they arrived.

Your body cannot process these carbohudrates fully. Your large intestine breaks some of them into hydrogen and methane, which explains the farting!

Celery root is the knotty root ball of celery, and just as the stem can be quite delicious, so can the root. Both are full of fiber and plenty of nutrients.

Eggplant is called that because the first ones seen by Europeans were smaller and white, so they looked like eggs. The French call them aubergines.

The Jerusalem artichoke is best from November to March. It's a kind of sunflower plant, not an artichoke. It doesn't come from Jerusalem but from North America!

The snow pea is one of the greatest vegetables, because you can snack on it like a carrot but still feel like you got your greens - and like a mango, it comes in its own packaging! They also last a nice long time in the fridge. Eat snow peas!

This splendid veggie is called a courgette in France. Chop it up and roast it for a lovey side dish with your dinner.

A turnip is similar to a rutabaga/swede. It's a root vegetable and you can carve it and it will hold its shape, making it very good for carving purposes! Turnip spice latte, however, leaves much to be desired.

This veggie hails from China. It's a root vegetable with a striking bright pink inside and green rind, just like a watermelon!

Red cabbage is good all the time! This is a great thing, because it is good for you and goes with everything.

This amazing record was set in 1984 by Janet Harris of Sussex. She may not be the hero we deserve, but she is the hero we need.