Vegetable chip Vegetable chip Vegetable chips (also referred to as veggie chips) are chips or crisps that are prepared using vegetables. Vegetable chips may be fried, deep-fried, dehydrated, dried or baked. Many different root vegetables or leaf vegetables may be used. Vegetable chips may be eaten as a snack food, and may accompany other foods such as dips, or be used as a topping on dishes. In the United States, vegetable chips are often mass-produced, with many brands marketed to consumers. While potato chips are, strictly speaking, "vegetable chips", they are usually considered separately. This article focuses on non-potato vegetable chips. Vegetable
World Vegetable Center at the World Vegetable Center. Indigenous vegetables are domesticated or semi-wild vegetable crops that are grown in particular regions as an integral part of a local food system. Many of them are underutilized crops, particularly in regions where they are not native. A collection of vegetable germplasm is kept at the World Vegetable Center, which is considered to have the "largest and most diverse collection...in the world.". The collection itself contains more than 60,000 accessions of 442 different species collected from 156 countries. AVGRIS, the AVRDC Vegetable Genetic Resources Information System, provides access to all the Center's data associated with