Veg Categories
Eat the Rainbow
Prep/Cook
Demonized vs Glorified
True or False
100
Which category does spinach belong to?
Leafy greens
100
The polyphenol lycopene is what color?
Red
100
Name a cutting technique that results in matchstick sized veggies.
Julienne cut.
100
What yellow starch is both a grain and a vegetable?
Corn! Rich in vitamin C, our old friends lutein and zeaxanthin, and fiber!
100
Cooking veggies makes them less nutritious.
False.
Cooking veggies might oxidize some nutrients, but it makes others more easily absorbed by the body. Cooking veggies also decreases their volume, which means a portion of cooked veggies is more nutritionally dense than a portion of raw veggies.
200
Name 2 plants in which the stem is consumed?
Asparagus, rhubarb, celery, and many more!
200
Name a plant that has anthocyanin.
Blueberries, eggplant, purple cabbage, many more!
200
What happens to the taste of a vegetable when the cooking method releases water?
It intensifies!
200
A cruciferous veggie that has had quite the glow up recently! It can be pizza, rice, mashed potatoes... you name it.
Cauliflower!
200
Antioxidants are free radical scavengers.
True.
Free radicals are unstable molecules that are produced during normal body processes. Left unchecked a free radical can damage cells. Antioxidants are able to stabilize free radicals.
300
"Pulses" are another name for which category?
Legumes
300
What polyphenols are important to eye health?
Lutein and zeaxanthin
300
What kind of chopping technique keeps the tip of the knife in constant contact with the cutting board?
Rock chop!
300
An edible stem that contains vitamin K, which is better absorbed when eaten with fat.
Celery!
300
There are only 2 kinds of carotenoids.
False.
There are over 600 (that we know about!)
400
Squashes belong to which category?
Marrow
400
Lycopene, lutein, and zeaxanthin are classified as carotenoids. What is anthocyanin classified as?
A Flavonoid.
400
Name a dish that uses baton sized veggies.
Stew!
Baton sized veggies are left chunky.
400
A starchy vegetable rich in vitamin B6, vitamin C, potassium, and fiber (and delicious with butter/oil, salt, and pepper.)
White potatoes!
400
Cabbage, kale broccoli, and cauliflower are all the same plant.
True!
They are the same species, wild cabbage.
500
In both of these categories, the desirable part of the plant grows underground.
Allium and root.
500
Cruciferous veggies have sulforaphane which contains which essential nutrient?
Sulfur.
The body uses sulfur and selenium to make seleno-proteins which are an important part of the immune system!
500
What is blanching?
Quick dunk into boiling water, then straight into ice water to stop the cooking process.
500
Objectively (according to Lauren), the most memed about vegetable.
It's cauliflower again!
500
Lutein and zeaxanthin are found in leafy greens, but they are actually yellow/orange.
True.
The chlorophyll masks the yellow orange color.
