id: 7
name: Leeks
flavor_bible_name_variants: leeks,leeks melted
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status: draft
source: foodb,flavor_bible
food_db_name: Leek
flavor_db_name_variants: leek
name_scientific: Allium porrum
description: The leek is a vegetable that belongs, along with onion and garlic, to the genus Allium, currently placed in family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Allioideae. Historically many scientific names were used for leeks, which are now treated as cultivars of Allium ampeloprasum. Two related vegetables, elephant garlic and kurrat, are also cultivars of A. ampeloprasum, although different in their uses as food. The edible part of the leek plant is a bundle of leaf sheaths that is sometimes erroneously called a stem or stalk.
itis_id: 42659
wikipedia_id: Leek
picture_file_name: 7.jpg
picture_content_type: image/jpeg
picture_file_size: 4857
picture_updated_at: 2012-04-20T09:33:40.000Z
legacy_id: 7
food_group: Vegetables
food_subgroup: Onion-family vegetables
food_type: Type 1
created_at: 2011-02-09T00:37:15.000Z
updated_at: 2019-05-14T18:04:13.000Z
creator_id: null
updater_id: null
export_to_afcdb: false
category: specific
ncbi_taxonomy_id: null
export_to_foodb: true
public_id: FOOD00007