of Italian cheeses List of Norwegian cheeses List of Polish cheeses List of cheese dishes Edible plants Edible plants Fruit – In common language usage, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of a plant that are sweet or sour and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, bananas, and lemons. On the other hand, the botanical sense of "fruit" includes many structures that are not commonly called "fruits", such as bean pods, corn kernels, wheat grains, and tomatoes. List of culinary fruits List of citrus fruits List of coconut dishes List of fruit dishes List of apple dishes List of avocado dishes List of banana dishes List of cherry dishes List of grape dishes List of lemon dishes and beverages List of melon dishes List of plum dishes List of squash and pumpkin dishes List of plants used in South Asian cuisine Edible tubers – Not all tubers are edible. Those that are include potatoes, sweet potatoes and yams. Tubers are various types of modified plant structures that are enlarged to store nutrients. They are used by plants to survive the winter or dry months, to provide energy and nutrients for regrowth during the next growing season, and as a means of asexual reproduction. There are both stem and root tubers. List of root vegetables List of potato dishes List of sweet potato cultivars Vegetables – In culinary terms, a vegetable is an edible plant or its part, intended for cooking or eating raw. List of vegetables List of leaf vegetables List of vegetable dishes List of cabbage dishes List of carrot dishes List of eggplant dishes List of onion dishes Edible fungi Edible fungi – Edible fungi are the fleshy and edible fruit bodies of several species of macrofungi (fungi which bear fruiting structures that are large enough to be seen with the naked eye). They can appear either below ground (hypogeous) or above ground (epigeous) where they may be picked by hand. Edibility may be defined by criteria that include absence of poisonous effects on humans and desirable taste and aroma. Edible mushroom List of mushroom dishes Edible nuts and seeds Edible nuts and seeds – Nut is a fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed, where the hard-shelled fruit does not open to release the seed (indehiscent). In a culinary context, a wide variety of dried seeds are often called