Question

What do you mean by edible root?​

Answer 1

Answer:

root vegetable - any of various fleshy edible underground roots or tubers. veg, vegetable, veggie - edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant.

Answer 2

Edible roots:

• Root vegetables-any of various fleshly edible underground roots or tubers. Veg, vegetable, veggie-edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or non sweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plants.

• Root vegetables are underground plant parts eaten by human as food. Although botany distinguishes true roots and tubers, although some certain contains both hypocotyl ,the term "root vegetables" is applied to all these types in agricultural and culinary usage.

• Root vegetables are generally storage organs, enlarged to store energy in the form of carbohydrates.

• They differ in the concentration and the balance among starches, sugars and other types of carbohydrate.

• Many root vegetables keep well in root cellars, lasting several months. This is one way of storing food for use long after harvest, which is especially important in non tropical latitudes, winter is traditionally a time of little to no harvesting.