A Culinary and Chemical Survey of Vegetables
The botany, defense chemistry, and kitchen mechanics behind every root, leaf, and bulb
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Every vegetable on the counter is a living organism armed with its own survival tools: starch reserves, sulfur bombs, phenolic bridges, and bitter alkaloids. This module surveys the botanical families behind common produce and the flavor chemistry that turns a plant's chemical defenses into some of the kitchen's most prized aromas, from the sweetness window of a baked sweet potato to the molecular bomb inside a sliced onion.
- Roots & Tubers
- Onion & Cabbage Chemistry
- Carrot & Lettuce Families
- Fruit-Vegetables & Umami
- Phenolics & Pigments
- Fungi & Seaweed
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