7 Raw Vegetables That Actually Taste, You Know, Good

[Anonymous]

1. Celery

Wash the vegetable. Break off the celery stalks. Tear away the leaves. Cut the stalks into bite-size pieces.

2. Beefsteak Tomato

Wash the vegetable. Rip away a small part of the flesh with your teeth. Suck all the tomato juice out of the tomato. Squeeze the tomato, while you are sucking it. Take away more pieces of the flesh. Suck more juice, and squeeze the tomato. Keep on sucking and squeezing until the entire tomato is consumed.

3. Avocado

Wash the vegetable. Cut the avocado lengthwise with a knife. Dig out the pit on both avocado halves. Use a spoon to eat the avocado.

4. Carrot

Wash the vegetable. Remove the leafy end. Cut about 3 cm of the pointy end. Shave off the carrot skin. Wash the vegetable again. Enjoy the crunch.

5. Cucumber

Wash the cucumber. Slice it like in the picture above. Eat each slice of cucumber.

6. Aloe Vera

Wash the aloe vera leaf. Cut off the spiny things at the edges. Remove about 3 cm of the base of the leaf. Tear the skin apart. Dig into the flesh. Try to catch all the slime. Eat at the sink or with a plate below you, because the food will get super slimy.

7. Red Onion

Wash the onion. Find the rough parts of the onion. Cut them off. Cut the whole onion in half lengthwise, meaning the knife is parallel to the direction of the normal growth of the onion. Hold the onion away from your face. Beware of the onion sting! Onions can make you cry! Peel away the outermost layer slowly. Discard the outermost layer. Peel away the inner layers. Put them in a bowl. Eat the onions. In Holes (2003), Stanley Yelnats held an onion plant to his friend, Hector Zeroni, and said it's a hot fudge sundae. A real onion tastes nothing like a hot fudge sundae. Actually, its spiciness and crunchiness makes it a very unique vegetable. However, you do not want to eat too much, because onion gives off a burning sensation and makes your breath stink. Use parsley to refresh your mouth.

Safety Tips:

1. It is important to wash the vegetables thoroughly before you eat them. The outer layer may contain dirt, microorganisms, or pesticides.

2. Reserve cutting utensils specifically for cutting raw vegetables that will be consumed raw. Do not mix this kind of cutting knife with your raw meat cutting knife.

3. Use safe cutting practices. Point the knife away from your fingers.

[BlueCoyote]

I absolutely LOVE avocado. If there was a god and he created a vegetable (or is it a fruit?), he'd probably would have created avocado. Personally, I've never tried it with salt though... seems a little odd. I like avocado with a splash of extra virgine olive oil (that's my Greek style ;-). Alternatively, avocado also fits wonderfully to raw fish such as salmon or tuna. They don't necessarily need to be wrapped up in a sushi, you can also just assemble them in a bowl with some rice and a raw egg yolk on the top, that's a Japanese dish called donburri. The combination of raw fish and avocado is heavenly, it's like bacon and eggs... they naturally go together.

Being half Greek, I also love tomatoes and cucumber. They're both very important in Greek cuisine. However, I'm not a big fan of those big beefsteak tomatoes. They can be alright in a veggie-mix but on their own, their taste isn't very exquisite. I like peretti tomatoes a lot and also date tomatoes.

Carrots on the other hand are something that never quite caught my interest. I don't like how hard and dry they are. It's a weird feeling to eat them raw... it makes me feel as though I need to drink a lot of water to get them down.

[myTake Owner]

Eat carrots with tomatoes. The tomatoes have a lot of water.

[chintita]

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tht stuff tastes vile, only way i can get my daily veggies is by blending kale, carrots, etc with some fruits and sugar.

[IVoidWarranties]

don't forget Wheat grass , the fresh cut grass is now in your smoothie

[chintita]

@IVoidWarranties I don't know the combo i do has a great taste, wheat grass might throw it off.

[IVoidWarranties]

LOL : why's this taste like Grass? uh i put Wheat grass in your smoothie when you were not looking! O_o

[myTake Owner]

Fruits are already sweet. You don't need to add more sweetness by double-dosing on sugar. Too much sugar is toxic to the liver, because sugar breaks down to glucose and fructose. Glucose may be readily absorbed by the body, but fructose needs to be processed and dealt with by the liver. So, the added sugar has just turned your healthy drink unhealthy and toxic.

[J1020]

Out of all of those, I have never had aloe vera. Dont even know what its good for.
I love cucumbers, tomatos, onions, lettuce, spinach, avocados and beets raw.

Celery, broccoli and carrots hmmmm raw are good but not my favorite.
Hey check out some raw options @melme16

[myTake Owner]

Beets? Never had it. What does it taste like?

[J1020]

hmmmm almost like carrots, haven't had them in a while but I mix them with lunch or dinner and add sauce on top but they are good.

[myTake Owner]

What is the sauce made of?

[J1020]

bbq, ketchup, honey mustart, lol yea I dont recommend the stuff I mix.

[myTake Owner]

Oh. If the Barbecue Sauce, Ketchup, and Honey Mustard are store-bought, then they may have high-fructose corn syrup or other kinds of sweeteners.

I think making your own tomato sauce out of real tomatoes is the healthier option. At least it has no added sugar. :D

[J1020]

True, I would much rather make my own sauce but cooking for myself is already enough for me. Maybe later I will take on that but for now I try to look for any sauce that doesn't have corn syrup or preservatives. I still love ketchup tho.
One thing I have to avoid is salt, I love salt with my veges.

[myTake Owner]

I think a vegetable consumer must have a bland palate. A sweet palate will find vegetables disgusting. I have more of a bland palate, so I can tolerate most veggies' natural taste without sauce or condiments. But some veggies still taste better than others. I prefer a tomato than a carrot, so I'd eat them together and use the tomato to mask the carrot taste. Raw vegetables can be made into salads, with fruits as toppings, because the fruity sweetness will mask the bitterness of the vegetables.

[Artist20]

Raw tomatos, cucumbers, onions and lettuce or spinach with lime juice plus salt and pepper is amazinnnnggg! The only vege mix I ever eat raw, or salad, have no idea what else to make.
Avocados are great too, raw of course.
I like spanish/white onions much more than red ones, not sure why and they dont have such a strong smell.

Chinese onions and cilantro are great when eaten raw too.
This a good take @melme16

[melme16]

Now you're making me hungry :)

[99percentangel]

They all can be good with a bit of seasoning. Avocado with salt, tomatoes is good with salt also. Celery, and carrots is good with with ranch. Cucumber is good with a pinch of vinegar. Onions are good by themselves or together with another meal. I've never tried Aloe Vera though.

[myTake Owner]

I prefer the vegetables without any seasoning. I like the natural taste they are given.

[99percentangel]

I don't know how you do it 😂😂 they all taste horrible to me without any type of seasoning. To each to their own.

[myTake Owner]

Ranch, peanut butter, and maybe even vinegar are processed food and may have added sugar in it. So, you cannot add processed food seasoning. Instead, you can make your own dressing/seasoning without added sugar. If you find that too difficult or time-consuming, you can simply eat a tomato as "natural seasoning" for your celery. :)

[99percentangel]

Oh thanks

[vishna]

I was with you until you said aloe vera, omg, how does that taste?
I agree on pretty much everything else though :)
and broccoli! Avocado is da best <3

[myTake Owner]

Aloe vera tastes bitter. Be prepared to have something sweet and nutritious, like sweet cherries, on the side.

Avocado is usually eaten raw. People mash raw avocados up to make guacamole.

Broccoli is usually cooked. I may have seen raw broccoli used in salads before. However, I prefer not to eat salads, because I believe that too much raw vegetables are not really good for digestion/absorption. I prefer my vegetables stir-fried, steamed, and made into soups.

[vishna]

Wow, I'm gonna have to try this aloe vera (even if it's scary) :o

[OleMissMiss]

It's funny I used to hate tomatoes when I was a teenager but when I hit my twenties , for some reason, I actually eat them raw now! It's crazy weird but they taste great lol
Great myTake

[myTake Owner]

Taste changes as you grow older. Children tend to be more sensitive to bitter flavors as a protection mechanism to avoid poisons, which tend to be bitter. Medicine is also bitter, so children hate consuming medicine.

[mutedaisy]

Aloe taste terrible. It's way too bitter. I don't know how my husband blends it with water and drinks it. 😬
Personally, I'd like to add radishes and bell peppers to the list.

[IVoidWarranties]

I hope your not cleaning the toilet after he drinks Aloe, cause after he's done the toilet will look like a giant melted chocolate bar with chunks that look like dog food an anything he ate prior to the Aloe drink!

[myTake Owner]

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Sweet bell peppers are great in stir-fry and as a raw vegetable! And in my experience, I usually eat the Chinese variety of the radish (luo bo), also known as Daikon in English.

[Anonymous]

Tomato's and avacados are great, cukes and carrots mehhhh. Celery and onions... i'd rather eat a handful of dirt.

[oddwaffle]

At least two of those vegetables are not vegetables but fruit. I think the cucumber is certainly a fruit too so that makes 3 of them. Half of your list are not vegetables!!!

[myTake Owner]

Vegetable is a culinary term, not a scientific term. In a culinary context, they are all vegetables.

[oddwaffle]

So that includes watermelons, pineapple, apple and every other fruits? Cause I use them I cooking too.

[myTake Owner]

Yes.

As a matter of fact, I consider watermelon rind a vegetable, because it can be cooked as a vegetable dish. If you throw in apples in a stir-fry, then the apples become vegetables. They are not meat. Meat is derived from animal. Vegetable is derived from plant.

[oddwaffle]

I guess everything belongs to plants are vegetables by your definition of vegetables. Though I highly doubt you can convince people that eating nuts, French fries, noodles and probably bread would be considered a healthy dose of vegetables. But hey, don't mind that! Everything from a plant are vegetables.

[myTake Owner]

What counts or does not count as a vegetable is kind of subjective. For more information, please refer to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable

[oddwaffle]

So yeah botanically your vegetables are fruit but you call them vegetables because you want to. I want to call my noodles vegetables because I want to.

[myTake Owner]

The world does not operate on what you personally, individually, prefer to call something. When I mentioned "subjective", I meant "subjective in a collectivist manner". Most people consider carrots vegetable, because it's traditionally regarded as a vegetable and is used as cooking. It's quite an arbitrary reason, but a reason based on a collectivistic opinion.

[LaVilaine]

I disagree with celery, tomatoes and onions. Celery tastes like nothing. Tomatoes are the devil. Onions will burn your face off.

[myTake Owner]

Celery tastes like nothing, because 95% of celery is water. The rest are nutrients. It also has a lot of indigestible sugars, cellulose. The good thing is that you obtain your water supply from the celery. The bad thing is that, if the celery you eat is not organic (pesticides were used), then the toxins may accumulate in the water supply. Hopefully, the antioxidants can balance out the toxins.

Tomatoes taste sweet and juicy. They may be a good "natural sauce" for the celery, which tastes bland. For a quick snack, you can eat a whole celery and a whole tomato. :D

I like onions, because they taste spicy. But I can't take too much, because they also make me cry. Onion tears and onion breath are the signs of eating too much onions. :(

[LaVilaine]

Tomatoes are the devil. The DEVIL.

[mermaidrocketship]

You can eat aloe vera? I have aloe vera gel, but never thought I could eat the plant it comes from... Interesting take.

[myTake Owner]

The flesh of the aloe vera is very gelatinous by itself. I have read and heard that it can be used as detoxification.

[mermaidrocketship]

Hmm... I might try to find some.

[Prof_Don]

Why isn't romaine lettuce on the list? I have been breaking off and eating romaine lettuce leaves like I'm a bunny. 🐰

Romaine lettuce has an earthy, slightly bitter, slightly sweet flavor that I dig. :-D

[Fathoms77]

I like these but I'm one of those freaks who actually doesn't like avocado. :P

Haven't tried aloe vera as a raw vegetable, though...

[mutedaisy]

I'm one of those freaks that's allergic to avacado lol

[99percentangel]

Avocado is good when you add a bit of salt. Lol. I don't like avocado plain either.

[ComeAlongPond]

I hate avocado, but I love olives and weird things like that, things that most people hate. I hate hamburgers too, which for some reason seems to make other people mad. :D

[IVoidWarranties]

@99percentangel indeed :)

[Anonymous]

I haven't tasted avocado and aloe vera tastes very bitter.
Other than these two all of these taste quite good. And for cucumber, take a small bit first to taste. Sometimes cucumber can be bitter AF.

[myTake Owner]

Aloe vera has been used as medicine before, so I think the bitterness is expected.

Avocado tastes fatty. If you want more fat in your diet, then you may eat an avocado.

[Opinion Owner]

You can also try brinjal. I like it raw only. Can't eat it cooked.

Ohhh thanks for info. It's hard to find avocado here. I never saw it anywhere.

[myTake Owner]

I looked up "brinjal" on Bing. It refers to an eggplant. Are you sure it's an eggplant? I have only eaten eggplants cooked, not raw.

Avocados grow in tropical climates. I live in the Northern hemisphere, in developed country. I think most avocados are actually foreign imports.

[Opinion Owner]

First of all, who are you? Can I know your username? I'm happy to see someone using Bing 😂
Finally I'm not alone 😭

Yeah, we call eggplant 'brinjal' in Asia.
Maybe avocados are available in malls. I don't go for shopping usually. Next time I will look for them.

[myTake Owner]

I prefer to be anonymous. I use Bing, because Microsoft Edge's default browser is Bing. My favorite browser is still Google.

Brinjal is an Indian (?) word for eggplant. Asia refers to the entire continent, not India. However, the British does call Indians "Asians", and I think the Indians call themselves "Asians" as a result of the British-Indian relationship.

Here in America, malls are big, indoor shopping centers. They sell mostly merchandise, not raw food. When food is sold, it usually comes in the form of highly processed restaurant food. You don't find fresh vegetables and fruits in malls here. They belong in grocery stores and supermarkets.

[Opinion Owner]

Yeah me too. If I wanted to know then I would have revealed myself. I was kidding 😂

I am sure that it's not just Asian. I've friends from Indonesia, middle east, Thailand, Bhutan and Uganda. They all call it brinjal. There's a Chinese friend and her brother also used word brinjal. Online friends from. UK & Turkey said eggplant but understood brinjal.

Hmm we don't get those in malls either but there's one which sells fresh fruits and vegs.

Indians call themselves Asians because they are Asians. Not because they think they're whole Asia but because they're part of Asia. Americans should use word oriental for East Asians 😂

[myTake Owner]

Well, in America, "Oriental" is considered an offensive term. Therefore, the preferable term is "Asian". Indians are described as "South Asian".

[Opinion Owner]

Ohh thanks for info ^^

by the way I meant "... it's not just Indian* or Asian" in 2nd paragraph of previous comment.

[DandelionGirl]

ugh, i hate all those suggestions! Avacado I can deal with but the rest is just plain bleh.

[kitty71]

I only like to eat raw carrots, tomatos and probably the red onion, the rest does not look that apealing to me to eat it raw

[IVoidWarranties]

Avocado's are a fruit, it has a plant bearing seed which makes it a fruit.

Kale
Parsnip
spinach

[myTake Owner]

*sigh*

Vegetable is a culinary term.

[IVoidWarranties]

an you know this how? you spend your day's in a kitchen prepping food?

[Zorax]

I love vegetables, especially green peppers, tomatoes and onions.

[Omgjosh]

No broccoli? I like it by itself but even better with cheese.

[Omgjosh]

I see now that you said raw. Makes sense why broccoli wasn't on there.

[akadatank44]

Just carrots and red onion taste good out of that list 😜

[Flurr]

#1 No, not without cheesewiz or peanut butter lol and I had noooo idea about #6

[myTake Owner]

Peanut butter has sugar. Cheese has fat. The point of the myTake is to limit the amount of added sugar and fat as much as possible and to promote healthier fast food. You just have to grab and go.

[Flurr]

Well then it doesn't taste good! :-P lol and besides peanut butter is high in protein, healthy doesn't have to mean losing weight, gaining muscle is good too ;-)

What does aloe vera taste like? I'm really interested now! Good take :D

[myTake Owner]

I would rather eat whole peanuts than eat peanut butter.

It is true that eating healthy does not mean losing weight. It means to eat a balanced diet that contains enough nutrients for normal functions. Sucrose breaks down into glucose and fructose. Glucose may be useful by the body, but fructose has to be processed by the liver. Why burden the liver with more sugar when there is already enough sugar in fruits and vegetables?