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leaf vegetable
Sign in to saveAlso known as leafy greens, salad greens, pot herbs, vegetable greens, greens, leaf vegetables
plant leaves eaten as a vegetable
Nutrition · Open Food Facts
Typical values per 100 g · averaged across 16 products
aNutri-Score
1NOVA · Unprocessed / minimally processed
- Energy
- 52 kcal
- Fat
- 2.7 g
- — of which saturates
- 0.7 g
- Carbohydrates
- 5.6 g
- — of which sugars
- 2.7 g
- Fibre
- 1.4 g
- Protein
- 1.8 g
- Salt
- 0.23 g
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Encyclopedic overview
Spinach leaves in a colander A bundle of curly-leaf kale
Leaf vegetables, also called leafy greens, vegetable greens, or simply greens, are plant leaves eaten as a vegetable. Those eaten raw in a salad can be called salad greens, whereas leaf vegetables eaten cooked can be called pot herbs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “leaf vegetable” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.