"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.
| Descriptor ID |
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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| 1995 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Plants, Edible" by people in Profiles.
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Routes of cannabis administration among females in the year before and during pregnancy: Results from a pilot project. Addict Behav. 2020 01; 100:106125.
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Double-blind, randomized feedback control fails to improve the hypocholesterolemic effect of a plant-based low-fat diet in patients with moderately elevated total cholesterol levels. Eur J Clin Nutr. 2004 Oct; 58(10):1402-9.
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Plant foods and colon cancer: an assessment of specific foods and their related nutrients (United States). Cancer Causes Control. 1997 Jul; 8(4):575-90.
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Health implications of Mediterranean diets in light of contemporary knowledge. 1. Plant foods and dairy products. Am J Clin Nutr. 1995 06; 61(6 Suppl):1407S-1415S.