Plants, Edible
"Plants, Edible" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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An organism of the vegetable kingdom suitable by nature for use as a food, especially by human beings. Not all parts of any given plant are edible but all parts of edible plants have been known to figure as raw or cooked food: leaves, roots, tubers, stems, seeds, buds, fruits, and flowers. The most commonly edible parts of plants are FRUIT, usually sweet, fleshy, and succulent. Most edible plants are commonly cultivated for their nutritional value and are referred to as VEGETABLES.
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D010945
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MeSH Number(s) |
B01.650.510
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Concept/Terms |
Plants, Edible- Plants, Edible
- Edible Plant
- Edible Plants
- Plant, Edible
- Food Plants
- Food Plant
- Plant, Food
- Plants, Food
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Plants, Edible" by people in Profiles.
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Ewusi Boisvert E, Bae D, Pang RD, Davis JP, Kelley-Quon LI, Barrington-Trimis JL, Kirkpatrick MG, Chai SH, Leventhal AM. Subjective effects of combustible, vaporized, and edible cannabis: Results from a survey of adolescent cannabis users. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2020 01 01; 206:107716.
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Wynn JG, Sponheimer M, Kimbel WH, Alemseged Z, Reed K, Bedaso ZK, Wilson JN. Diet of Australopithecus afarensis from the Pliocene Hadar Formation, Ethiopia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2013 Jun 25; 110(26):10495-500.
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Traka MH, Mithen RF. Plant science and human nutrition: challenges in assessing health-promoting properties of phytochemicals. Plant Cell. 2011 Jul; 23(7):2483-97.
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