Root Vegetables. Root vegetables such as ginger helps in fighting nausea and morning sickness and are especially helpful for pregnant women. In some cases these are swollen roots.
In some cases these are swollen roots. Root vegetables are the starchy tubers and taproots of plants. Yams beets parsnips turnips rutabagas carrots yuca kohlrabi onions garlic celery root or celeriac horseradish daikon turmeric jicama Jerusalem artichokes radishes and ginger are all considered roots.
Instead we pull them up and eat them and all their inherent sweet starchy vitamin-laden yummy-ness.
Here are some of the most common seasonal root vegetables. Because root vegetables grow underground they absorb a great amount of nutrients from the soil. Many of these are nutritionally rich and some starchy varieties form important staple foods of communities across the world. The edible part grows underground out of sight so we often do not know if there is a problem until we harvest them.
