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What are the 3 types of cultivation methods for vegetables?

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  • Biologically grown vegetables
  • Sprayed vegetables
  • genetically manipulated vegetables
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What are the characteristics, as well as advantages and disadvantages, of biologically grown vegetables? (5 characteristics, 1 advantage and 1 disadvantage)

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  1. Own quality mark
  2. Pure taste
  3. No harmful substances
  4. More expensive
  5. Changing range

Advantage: no harmful substances
Disadvantage: more expensive

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What are the characteristics of sprayed vegetables? (2)

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  • Grown using manure, fertiliser, and pesticides to get the largest and best yield
  • Strict regulations to forbid harmful substances
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What are the characteristics, as well as the advantages of genetically engineered vegetables? (1 characteristic, 3 advantages)

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Adding, deleting, or changing the hereditary characteristics of a living organism.
Advantages:
1. Less pesticides
2. Remove food shortages
3. Improve health care
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Which vegetables fall into the leafy vegetables category? (8)

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  1. Endive
  2. Butter Head
  3. Frisee
  4. Paksoi
  5. Radicchio
  6. Rocket
  7. Swiss Chard
  8. Lambs lettuce
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What does Endive look like?

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They look like an oval made up of curly, narrow, mid-green leaves. The leaves have a pale, sometimes slightly prickly stalks that extend into erratically-shaped leafy projections.

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What does a butter head look like?

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It is a type of lettuce that has loose, round-shaped heads of tender, sweet leaves. They usually have smooth, loosely-coiled leaves

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What does Frisee look like?

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It has a tousled head of dark lacy ruffles, sprouting from a pale yellow core.

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What does Bok Choy (Paksoi) look like?

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Has dark green leaves atop a cluster of white thick stalks.

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What does Radicchio look like

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Has white veins and deep reddish-purple leaves that form a round or elongated head. Looks like a colour head of lettuce.

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What does Rocket look like?

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Has dandelion-like succulent, elongated, lobular leaves with prominent green veins

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What does Swiss Chard look like?

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The leaves are large and dark green, with pronounced ribbing, and sometimes the stalks will all be one colour with stems of red, pink, orange, yellow and white.

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What does lambs lettuce look like?

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Has long spoon-shaped dark leaves and it is the size of a lambs tongue, and looks like multiple coming from one stem.

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Which vegetables fall into the root crops category? (5)

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  1. Daikon
  2. Parsnip
  3. Black Salsify
  4. Radish
  5. Carrot
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Which vegetables fall into the cabbage crops category (6)?

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  1. Beet
  2. Kohlrabi
  3. Celeriac
  4. Swedish turnip
  5. Sweet potatoes
  6. Jerusalem Artichoke
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What does a Daikon look like?

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It looks like a white carrot

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What does Parsnip look like?

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Looks like a pale carrot, or like a skinny version of the screaming mandrakes in harry potter

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What does black salsify look like?

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A thin root with green pointed leaves. It’s black on the outside.

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What does radish look like?

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Red shaped like bulbs with thin stalks coming from the head that turn into leaves.

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What does a Kohlrabi look like?

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Has a swollen globe-shaped stem that makes it look like a turnip growing on a cabbage root. Stems can be white, purple, or green and are topped with long-stemmed green leaves.

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What does Jerusalem artichoke look like?

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Look like a ginger root with brown skin and an irregular, lumpy shape.

22
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What vegetables fall into the stem category? (4)

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  • Fennel
  • Rhubarb
  • Celery
  • Asperger
23
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Which vegetables fall into the cucumber category? (3)

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  • cucumber
  • pumpkin
  • zucchini
24
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Which vegetables fall into the onion crops category (5)?

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  • Spring onion
  • Banana Shallot
  • Sweet onion
  • Garlic
  • Leeks
25
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Which vegetables fall into the pod & seed category? (6)

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  • Haricot verts
  • Broad beans
  • Sugar snaps
  • Snow peas
  • Green beans
  • Flat green beans
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What do haricot verts look like?

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look like string beans but longer and thinner, with no curves.

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Which vegetables fall into the cabbage varieties category? (6)

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  • Cauliflower
  • Romanesco
  • Broccoli
  • Kale
  • Cabbage
  • Sprouts
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Which vegetables fall into the sea vegetables category? (4)

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  • Nori
  • Seaweed
  • Sea aster
  • Glasswort
29
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Which vegetables fall into the potatoes category? (2)

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  • Rozeval

- Truffle potato

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What vegetables fall into the mushrooms category? (10)

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  • Porcini
  • Morel
  • Chanterelle
  • Horn of plenty
  • Truffle
  • Chestnut
  • Portobello
  • Shiitake
  • Enoki
  • Oyster mush
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Which of the mushrooms are wild?

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  • Porcini
  • Chanterelle
  • Morel
  • Horn of plenty
  • Truffle
32
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What do porcini look like?

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are brown-capped mushrooms with thick, white stalks

33
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What do morels look like?

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They have pitted honey-comb like ridges on an almost sponge-like cap, that has an oblong shape. Has a thick white stem

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What do Chanterelle look like?

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They have a wavy funnel shape and and are usually yellow.

35
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What does horn of plenty look like?

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Is funnel shaped, with thin flesh. The body is grey-black, with a white scaly layer on the stem.

36
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What does truffle look like?

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They look like a small, lumpy potato with buttons on it, almost like a raspberry

37
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What does a chestnut mushroom look like?

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Have a tan-coloured button top and a small white thick stem

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What does a portobello mushroom look like?

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The cap is smooth and wide, and ranges from dark brown to tan. Underneath the cap there are dark brown, fleshy gils, and the stem is white and dense.

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What does a shiitake mushroom look like?

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Have brown umbrella like caps with off-white gills underneath. the stems are tan.

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What does enoki look like?

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Look like long strings, almost like noodles.

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What does oyster mush look like?

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Have a white to light brown funnel-shaped cap, with whitish-yellow gills running up a short off-center the stem. Grows in a shelf-like formation

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Which vegetables fall into the fruit crops category? (5)

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  • Olives
  • Pumpkins
  • Avocado
  • Tomatoes
  • Pointed peppers

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