Starchy/Non-starchy list

Starchy Vegetables/grains
  • Beans (kidney, navy, pinto, black, cannellini)
  • Butternut squash
  • Chickpeas
  • Corn
  • Lentils
  • Parsnips
  • Plantain
  • pumpkin
  • Peas
  • Potatoes
  • Sweet potatoes
  • Taro
  • Yams 
  • Winter squash (acorn butternut)
  • Grains
  •  Barley
  •  Whole wheat
  •  Bulgar  
  •  Farro 
  • Whole wheat, corn meal, rye etc.
  •  Oatmeal 
  •  Pasta
  •  Quinoa
  •  Rice
  • Popcorn 


Non-Starchy Vegetables



  • Amaranth or Chinese spinach
  • Artichoke
  • Artichoke hearts
  • Asparagus        
  • Baby corn
  • Bamboo shoots
  • Beans (green, wax, Italian)
  • Bean sprouts
  • Brussels sprouts
  • Broccoli
  • Cabbage (green, bok choy, Chinese)
  • Cauliflower
  • Carrots
  • Celery
  • Chayote
  • Coleslaw (packaged, no dressing)
  • Cucumber
  • Daikon
  • Eggplant
  • Greens (collard, kale, mustard, turnip)
  • Hearts of palm
  • Jicama
  • Kohlrabi
  • Leeks
  • Mushrooms
  • Okra
  • Onions
  • Pea pods
  • Peppers
  • Radishes
  • Rutabaga
  • Salad greens (chicory, endive, escarole, lettuce, romaine, spinach, arugula, radicchio, watercress)
  • Snow peas
  • Spinach
  • Sprouts
  • Squash (cushaw, summer, crookneck, spaghetti, zucchini)
  • Sugar snap peas
  • Swiss chard
  • Tomato
  • Turnips
  • Water chestnuts
  • Yard-long beans
  • Zucchini 

Cook the following for best benefit

Cruciferous vegetables

Horseradish Armoracia            
Land cress            
Ethiopian mustard Brassica       
Kale   Brassica       
Oleracea       
Collard greens       
Chinese broccoli (gai-lan / jie lan)      
Cabbage    
Cauliflower  
Savoy cabbage      
Brussels sprouts    
Kohlrabi      
Broccoli      
Broccolini   
Broccoflower        
Broccoli romanesco        
Brassica       
Botrytis group / Italica group
Wild broccoli        
Bok choy     
Komatsuna  
Mizuna        
Rapini (broccoli rabe)     
Choy sum (Flowering cabbage)
Chinese cabbage, 
Turnip root; greens         
Rutabaga (swede)  
Siberian kale         
Canola/rapeseed    
Wrapped heart mustard cabbage         
Mustard seeds, brown; greens            
White mustard seeds                
Black mustard seeds        
Tatsoi          
Wild arugula                  
Arugula (rocket)             
Field pepperweed           
Maca  Lepidium              
Garden cress                  
Watercress            
Radish                  
Daikon        
Wasabi

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