Gathers the tender leaves and shoots that are eaten raw in salads or lightly cooked. It includes lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, arugula, endive, radicchio, mesclun, watercress, water spinach, moringa, jute leaves, gongura and fluted pumpkin leaves. Within the Vegetables and Vegetable Products subcategory it sits beside the groups Alliums, Roots, Tubers and Corms, Cabbages and Brassicas, Fruiting Vegetables and Gourds, Stalks, Shoots and Mushrooms, and each entry is placed in the one group whose description fits it best.