Vegetables Tier List

Peppery green — vitamins K and A off the charts per calorie.

Iceberg's competent sibling — actual nutrition per crunch.

The micronutrient density king — 23 calories carrying a multivitamin.

Bitter green powerhouse — folate and vitamin A per leaf.

Spinach's sturdier rival — more vitamin C, more crunch, more hype survived.

Peppery, calcium-rich, and basically free calorically.

The vegetable everyone was told to eat, and the science agreed.

Roast them hard and the bitterness surrenders. Worth the effort.

Cabbage's mild-mannered cousin — vitamin C and fiber in a crisp bulb.

More vitamin C than an orange, with crunch.

A folate specialist in a slender package.

Southern cooking's healthiest accident — vitamin K for days.

The cheapest nutrition in the produce aisle, and it's not close.

Onion's milder form — vitamin K packed into the green tops.

Broccoli's paler cousin — fine, but stop pretending it's rice.

Meaty texture, mild nutrition — roast it, don't fry it.

Crunchy water-vegetable — fiber and vitamin C, almost no calories.

Anise-flavored crunch — solid vitamin C for 31 calories.

Solid all-rounder, nobody's favorite, everybody's side dish.

The slime is soluble fiber — embrace it.

The fiber dark horse — more per bite than most grains.

The snackable pea — fiber plus more protein than most vegetables.

Eleven calories. Topped the CDC's powerhouse-vegetable ranking for a reason.

Crunchy water. The wedge salad's structural element, not its nutrition.

Spinach's mineral-heavy sibling — magnesium and vitamin K per cup.

The calcium dark horse of the greens — mild enough for skeptics.

Peppery crunch, basically calorie-free.

The bitter red chicory — vitamin K and fiber for 20 calories.

Inoffensive, hydrating, and nearly calorie-free. The Switzerland of vegetables.

Lycopene delivery system that happens to be delicious.

Beta-carotene royalty — your eyes' favorite vegetable.

Crunchy water with a vitamin K cameo.

The vegetable with the most protein ambition — 5.4g per 100g.

Turnip's sweeter cousin — potassium and vitamin C, low calorie.

Not just a latte flavor — legitimately one of the best vitamin A values around.

The root vegetable time forgot.

Sweet potato's lighter, soup-friendlier cousin.

Onion's elegant sibling — milder, sweeter, soup-bound.

The only non-animal vitamin D source here — if they've seen sunlight.

Hydration with a crunch — the spa water of vegetables.

961mcg of vitamin A per 100g — the orange means business.

Nobody eats 100g of raw onion, but the quercetin counts anyway.

Nitrates for blood flow, folate for everything else. Earthy in both senses.

Carrot's sweeter, starchier cousin.

Allicin-rich and boldly flavored — a seasoning with a nutrient panel.