Vegetable Trivia Quiz Questions and Answers
The Culinary definition of a vegetable is largely based on
what?
A: Culinary and cultural tradition.
Apart from vegetables, what are the other main types of
plant food?
A: Fruits, grains and nuts.
How are vegetables usually consumed?
A: As salads or cooked in savory or salty dishes.
Some people consider mushrooms to be vegetables even though
they are not what?
A: Plants.
Other people consider mushrooms a separate what?
A: Food category.
Some cultures group potatoes with what?
A: Cereal products such as noodles or rice.
Most English speakers would consider potatoes as what?
A: Vegetables.
Some vegetables must be cooked to destroy toxins or
microbes in order to be what?
A: Safe to eat.
When was the word vegetable first recorded in English?
A: In the early 15th century from Old French.
In 1767, the meaning of the term "vegetable" was specified
to mean what?
A: "Plant cultivated for food, edible herb or root.".
The year 1955 noted the first use of what shortened, slang
term?
A: "veggie".
As an adjective, the word vegetable is used in scientific
and technical contexts with broader meaning, namely what?
A: Related to plants.
The meaning of "vegetable" as "plant grown for food" was
not established until when?
A: The 18th century.
In everyday, grocery-store, culinary language, the words
"fruit" and "vegetable" are what?
A: Mutually exclusive; plant products called fruit are hardly ever called
vegetables, and vice-versa.
Many things usually called "vegetables", such as eggplants,
bell peppers, and tomatoes, are what?
A: Botanically fruits.
The cereals (grains) are what?
A: Both a fruit and a vegetable, as well as some spices like black pepper and
chili peppers.
In 1893, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Nix v.
Hedden that a tomato is correctly identified as, and thus taxed as, a what?
A: A vegetable, for the purposes of the Tariff of 1883 on imported produce.
What did the Supreme Court acknowledge?
A: That, botanically speaking, a tomato is a fruit.
The nutritional content of vegetables varies considerably,
though generally they don't contain much what?
A: Protein or fat.
Vegetables have varying proportions of what?
A: Vitamins, provitamins, dietary minerals and carbohydrates.
They have a large variety of other what?
A: Phytochemicals, some of which have been claimed to have antioxidant,
antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral and anticarcinogenic properties.
Vegetables also contain fiber which is important for what?
A: Gastrointestinal function.
Vegetables contain important nutrients necessary for
healthy what?
A: Hair and skin.
What is a person who refrains from dairy and meat products,
and eats only plants called?
A: A vegan.
Vegetables often also contain what?
A: Toxins.
What might be necessary to eliminate or reduce the toxins
or other harmful compounds?
A: Cooking and/or other processing.
The USDA Dietary Guidelines recommends eating how many
servings of vegetables each day?
A: 3 to 5.
For most vegetables, one serving is about how much?
A: 1/2 cup and can be eaten raw or cooked.
For leafy greens, such as lettuce and spinach, how big is a
typical serving?
A: 1 cup.