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Is spinach a herb

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14y ago

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Spinach is a vegetable. It grows in the earth.

Correction or clarification: Not every edible item grown in the earth is a vegetable. Here's a short list of popular edibles grown in the earth that are NOT vegetables: Corn, tomatoes, peanuts, and all fruits and berries.

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11y ago

A vegetable is considered to be any edible vegetative parts of a plant i.e Leaves, stems, roots.

Fruit on the other hand is purely reproductive parts of the plant and is normally made up of one or more Ovaries and any seeds that may have formed inside.

Spinach as we know it is the leaf of Spinacia oleracea, which makes it a vegetable.

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10y ago

No. Lettuce is of the daisy family (asterids). Spinach is of the goosefoot family (amaranths).

The plants are both Eudicots, a large subdivision of angiosperms, but otherwise are related only by their use as food.

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10y ago

Yes, spinach is a leaf vegetable like lettuce or cabbage or mustard greens.

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14y ago

No, spinach is a vegetable.

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13y ago

No

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