vegetable or vegetable product (eurofir)

Includes: plants and parts of plants eaten as vegetables (i.e. normally consumed as a savoury and usually with other foods as sources of protein and/or grain starch), including immature pulses; edible fungi and seaweed; a food product whose predominant constituent is vegetables; a recipe dish whose main ingredient is considered to be vegetables. The group excludes: fruiting body of a plant when this is consumed as a dessert fruit (under *FRUIT*); seeds, kernels and nuts (under *NUT, SEED OR KERNEL PRODUCT*); oils produced from vegetable plants (under *FAT OR OIL*); herbs, spices, chutney and pickles produced from vegetables (under *SPICE, CONDIMENT OR OTHER INGREDIENT*); food products produced wholly or partially from vegetables but used as a substitute for a food assigned to another main group (for example, potato flour is a substitute flour under *FLOUR OR STARCH*).