Guidelines Dietary - Eat For Health

Vegetables: Vegetable means the edible portion of a plant or constituents of the edible portion that are presentin the typical proportion of the whole vegetable (with or without the peel or water). Examples include: leafy greenvegetables (spinach, lettuce, silverbeet and bok choi), members of the crucifer or Brassica family (broccoli, cabbage,and brussel sprouts), starchy root and tuber vegetables (yams and potatoes), and edible plant stems (celery andasparagus), gourd vegetables (pumpkin, squash and cucumber), Allium vegetables (onions, garlic and shallots),and sweet corn.Wholegrain: This term applies to products which uses every part of the grain including the outer layers, bran andgerm even if these parts are separated during processing and regardless of whether the grain is in one piece ormilled into smaller pieces.The term wholegrain may apply to whole and intact grains as found in some bread and crisp breads, puffed orflaked grains in some breakfast cereals, coarsely milled or kibbled wheat found in breads such as pumpernickeland ground grains such whole wheat flour used to make wholemeal bread.Whole foods: This refers to foods themselves for example fruit, vegetables, bread, pasta, lean meat, milk,yoghurt and not the food component for example calcium, iron, protein.GlossaryNational Health and Medical Research Council149