The exact definition of "vegetable" may vary simply because of the many parts of a plant consumed as food worldwide—roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds. The broadest definition is the word's use adjectivally to mean "matter of plant origin". More specifically, a vegetable may be defined as "any plant, part of which is used for food", a secondary meaning then being "the edible part of such a plant". A more precise definition is "any plant part consumed for food that is not a fruit or seed, but including mature fruits that are eaten as part of a main meal". Falling outside these definitions are edible fungi such as edible mushrooms and edible seaweed which, although not parts of plants, are often treated as vegetables. Lactobacilli are facultative anaerobic, non-spore forming, lactic acid producing, and Gram-positive bacilli. They are found in the normal microbiota of the oral cavity, gastrointestinal tract, and female genitourinary tract. Although lactobacilli are generally considered non-pathogenic microbes and some of their strains are utilized as probiotics to prevent and treat some infections, they have been implicated in some serious clinical infections including bacteraemia, infective endocarditis and intra-abdominal abscess including liver abscess, pancreatic necrosis infection, pulmonary infections, pyelonephritis, meningitis, postpartum endometritis, and chorioamnionitis. Keywords: Vegetables, gastrointestinal tract, Lactobacilli, diseases, symptoms
Publication date: 01/04/21
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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2021/10.4.1024
