Common, Non-Starchy Vegetables

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Cindy Rios, RN / BSN / CBN

The following is a list of common non-starchy vegetables. Most of these are unlimited, so choose what you like, add them to your salads, or munch them all day long.

• Amaranth or Chinese spinach
• Artichokes (limit to 6 oz daily)
• Asparagus
• Baby corn (limit to 6 oz daily)
• Bamboo shoots
• Beans (green, wax, Italian)
• Bean sprouts
• Beets (rinse if pickled in sugar)
• Brussels sprouts
• Broccoli
• Cabbage (green, bok choy, Chinese)
• Carrots
• Cauliflower
• Celery
• Chayote
• Coleslaw (packaged, no dressing)
• Cucumber
• Daikon
• Eggplant
• Greens (collard, kale, mustard, turnip)
• Hearts of palm
• Jicama (this is sweet and crunchy with a little added chili powder)
• Kohlrabi
• Lettuces (all kinds)
• Leeks
• Mushrooms
• Okra
• Onions
• Pea pods
• Peppers
• Radishes
• Rutabaga
• Salad greens (chicory, endive, escarole, lettuce, romaine, spinach, arugula, radicchio, watercress)
• Sprouts
• Squash (spaghetti and zucchini only)
• Sugar snap peas (limit these to 6 oz daily)
• Swiss chard
• Tomatoes
• Turnips
• Water chestnuts
• Yard-long beans

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Common, Non-Starchy Vegetables

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