Vegan Forum

This forum was created to educate people about different vegetables that exist around the globe. Thus showing that vegans have a huge diversity of healthy foods available. Everyone is welcome to contribute.
Each topic will be dedicated to a specific vegetable, and first post will contain information about this vegetable in the following format.
The word vegetable should be replaced by the name of the specific vegetable.

General info about vegetable
History, Growing Location, Cultural aspects and other interesting facts.

How to choose a ripe and fresh vegetable
What color, smell, hardness the vegetable should have to be fresh and ripe.
Images are welcome here if possible, we will add our images if available.

Ways to prepare and serve the vegetable
What is the edible part, how to cut or clean the vegetable.

Health Benefits and Warnings of eating vegetable
All health benefits and potential allergy warnings related to the vegetable.

Classification
List of all varieties of the vegetable, with an image and brief gustatory qualities and description.

Recipes made mainly with this vegetable
Recipes in which the vegetable is the main ingredient.

So if you have experience eating a specific vegetable you are welcome to contribute. We politely ask to abstain from making duplicate topics of already existing vegetable description, if you want to add something you are welcome to reply to an existing topic.
To maintain this forum organized we will have to delete the duplicates.
Members are also welcome to ask questions and tell stories within existing vegetable topics.

Here is the code which you can copy/paste when starting a new topic, to maintain the same style.

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[b]General info about vegetable[/b]

[b]How to choose a ripe and fresh vegetable[/b]

[b]Ways to prepare and serve the vegetable[/b]

[b]Health Benefits and Warnings of eating vegetable[/b]

[b]Classification[/b]

[b]Recipes made mainly with this vegetable[/b]