Whats the largest edible fruit or vegetable (excluding hybrids and genetically altered giants)?”
“So if you exclude massive squash and pumpkins from the vegetable class, what is the world’s largest vegetable? This title should be limited to vegetables in a typical human diet–because to Australian koalas, the largest vegetable would most certainly be an enormous eucalyptus tree. The 1985 Guinness Book Of World Records (UK Edition) lists some of the record-breaking vegetables, including a 35 pound (16 kg) turnip, a 45 pound (20 kg) red cabbage, a 28 pound (13 kg) broccoli, a 52 pound (24 kg) cauliflower, a 25 pound (11 kg) lettuce, and a remarkable 124 pound (56 kg) cabbage six feet (1.8 m) in diameter. Although this giant cabbage cited in the Guinness Book seems unbeatable for the title of “World’s Largest Vegetable,” there are tropical yams belonging to the genus Dioscorea that may be 6 to 9 feet long (2-3 m) and weigh 150 pounds (68 kg) or more, although they are usually harvested at about 2-6 pounds. These yams are not to be confused with fleshy storage roots of red sweet potat
