Root vegetable

Also called root crops, root as food, culinary root and medicinal root

Root vegetables are bulbs, corms, rhizomes, roots, or tubers. Cooks use these parts as vegetables.

Plant-based

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Category: Vegetables
Part used: Bulb, corm, rhizome, root, tuber
Dishes: 1 in the catalogue

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On the table

Dishes made with root vegetable

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.

Yaroa

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include root vegetable.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: root vegetable in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.

Allergens: None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: eggs, fish, milk, molluscs, sulphites, crustaceans.
Animal origin: No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Alcohol: None
Pork: None

Family

Related forms

Kinds: taro

Around the world

What root vegetable is called

Names in 73 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
raíz alimenticia · verdura de raíz
French
légume-racine · légume racine · racine (aliment)
Italian
ortaggi da radice · radici
German
Wurzelgemüse · Wurzeln
Dutch
wortelgewas
Greek
ριζώδες λαχανικό
Turkish
kök sebze
Russian
корнеплод · корень · коренья
Polish
warzywo korzeniowe · warzywa korzeniowe
Arabic
قائمة الخضراوات الجذرية · الخضراوات الجذرية
Persian
لیست سبزیجات ریشه‌ای
Hebrew
ירק שורש

Show all 73 languages

Afrikaans
wortelgroente
Albanian
rrënjë perimesh
Armenian
արմատապտուղներ
Asturian
raíz comestible · raigañu comestible
Bangla
শিকড় সবজি
Basque
sustrai jangarri · sustrai barazki
Belarusian
карняплод
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
кораньплод · караняплод · корняплод
Bulgarian
Кореноплод
Cantonese
根菜
Catalan
arrel comestible · Arrel comestible · Arrels comestibles
Chinese
根菜 · 根莖類蔬菜 · 块茎作物 · 根菜类列表
Chuvash
Тымар-çимĕç
Croatian
Korjenasto povrće
Czech
kořenová zelenina
Danish
rodfrugt · rodfrugter
Esperanto
Radiklegomo
Estonian
juurvili
Filipino
halamang-ugat · lamang-ugat
Finnish
juures · juurekset
Galician
raíz comestible
Georgian
ძირხვენა
Hindi
रूट सब्जि
Hungarian
gyökérzöldség
Icelandic
Rótargrænmeti
Igbo
Mgbọrọgwụ
Inari Sami
ruotâsšaddo
Indonesian
Sayuran akar
Interlingua
legumine a radice · legumine de radice · verdura a radice · verdura de radice
Irish
glasra fréimhe · meacan
Japanese
根菜
Kazakh
Тамыр жемістер
Korean
뿌리채소
Lao
ມັນ
Latin
vegetable radix
Latvian
sakņaugs
Lithuanian
Šakniavaisis
Macedonian
коренест зеленчук · коренов зеленчук · кореноплоди · кореноплодови
Malagasy
Legioma faka
Malay
ubi · ubi-ubian
Malayalam
കിഴങ്ങുകൾ
Northern Sami
ruohtasšaddu
Norwegian Bokmål
rotfrukt
Norwegian Nynorsk
rotfrukt
Odia
ମୂଳ ପରିବା
Old English
Moru
Ossetic
Уидагбын
Piedmontese
Vërdure da rèis
Sanskrit
कन्दमूलानि
Serbian
Коренско поврће
Simplified Chinese
根菜
Skolt Sami
vueʹddes-šâdd
Slovak
Koreňová zelenina
Slovenian
gomoljnica
Swedish
rotfrukter
Tajik
Бехмева
Toki Pona
kili pi noka kasi
Traditional Chinese
根菜
Udmurt
Выжы емышъёс
Ukrainian
коренеплоди
Uzbek
Ildizmevalilar · Ildizmevalar
Vietnamese
Rau ăn rễ
Welsh
gwreiddlysieuyn
Western Panjabi
جڑ والیاں سبزیاں

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos

Wikidata item: Q20136

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