List of Vegetables
Aristotle made the division of nature, which still has influence today. He distinguished three kinds of beings, and gathered into three kingdoms:
- Minerals that grow but do not live and feel.
- Vegetables that grow and live but do not feel.
- Animals that grow, live and feel.
By applying this concept Carlos Linneo included corals in the Vegetables kingdom.
In scientific language the term plant has been less useful to a point where the only possible definition is the following: plant is called to anybody of those who have traditionally been studied by botanists.
The bodies of two kingdoms complete the modern classification are studied by botanists: plants (kingdom Plantae) and fungi (kingdom Fungi, including lichens).
They are also subject for Botany organisms called "algae" heterogeneous photosynthetic water that fall almost entirely in the present kingdom protists (Protista). Also, some groups of Protista as oomycetes, for convergence, they have developed characteristics typical of fungi.
Other groups of organisms such as prokaryotes, including bacteria, have been studied by botanists as well as by microbiologists. The "slime mold" is a heterogeneous group, some of whom have been studied both for botanists (named myxomycetes) to zoologists (named mixozoos).
Vegetarianism is the diet that is beginning to abstain from meat. There are many varieties within the vegetarian diet. The following table summarizes the main
- Lacto vegetarianism: they are vegetarians who eat no meat or eggs but do consume dairy products. Most vegetarians in India and those from the Mediterranean (as the Pythagoreans), are indeed lacto vegetarians.
- Lacto Ovo Vegetarianism: the practitioners of this current consume eggs and dairy products but not meat or fish. However, for most are not accepted as a totally vegetarian diet. This is the most common variation in Western Culture.
- Ovo vegetarian: those who practice this trend are those who do not eat meat or dairy products, but eggs.
- Api Vegetarianism: are those who consume honey. Api-prefix can also be used in other definitions, for example, lacto-ovo-api vegetarianism, api-ovo vegetarianism, lacto-vegetarian api.
- Strict vegetarians (diet carried out by vegans): are those who consume no animal foods, rejecting both the consumption of eggs, milk and honey. Within this range there are the practitioners of veganism (English vegan), which also avoids the use of animal products in other areas of life: clothing, leisure activities. for ethical reasons, since all these products and activities involving the exploitation of animals and a discriminatory attitude towards them called speciesism.
- Raw foodist: those who follow a vegetarian diet in which they are consumed raw or slightly warm, which have not been heated above 46.7 ° C (116 ° F), and never cooked. Consumers of raw argue that cooking destroys enzymes and / or portions of nutrients, although some believe that the body assimilates more about certain foods if they are slightly warm and therefore tenderer. Other enzymes activated by soaking in water food before eating. Some are fruitarian, and others eat only organic foods.
- Raw vegan: the doctrine and / or the practice of feeding that is both "raw" and "vegan."
There are also groups like pescetarianos, which support the intake of fish but not other animals, or even who makes an exception for very specific foods. However, these vegetarian diets are not considered by most, since they allow consumption, though small, animal flesh.