Vegetable Emoji List: 🥦 Fun And Clever Ways To Get People To Eat More 🥬 Veggies

Everybody knows vegetables are good for you. Nevertheless, as we’ve seen over and over again, people have a nasty habit of knowing one thing, then going in the opposite direction. If your kids or other family members are like that when it comes to vegetables, they despise them, and you can’t figure out how to change their mind, cheer up! There are tools to steer you in the right direction. Something as simple as vegetable emoji can help in the process of turning your veggie loather into a veggie lover.

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Nowadays, everyone seems to be fascinated with emojis. Ever met someone who hates emojis? We rest our case. These cute mini pictures can tell a thousand words with minimal effort. More than that, emojis, when used correctly, can appeal to someone on a deeper level—maybe change minds, even!

Before we proceed any further, naturally, we need to know the meaning of the emojis we’ll use first. Hence, the following vegetable emoji list we’ve prepared below.

Vegetable Emoji List

Leafy Green Vegetable Emoji

Did you know that there are, on average, a total of 1,097 vegetable species are being cultivated worldwide? As much as people love emojis, it’s sad to note, out of 1,097, very few vegetable emoji are acutely represented in the emoji world. This situation all the more emphasizes the significance of the 🥬 Leafy Green Vegetable emoji.

This emoji represents green leafy vegetables that don’t have an emoji counterpart, like cabbage or watercress, for instance. Since green is widely accepted as the color of nourishment, growth, and health, some users pair this emoji with other vegetable emoji to show a healthy diet.

Potato Emoji

The second vegetable emoji on our list is quite popular. Come on, who’s never heard of French fries or baked potatoes?! We’re talking about the 🥔 Potato emoji, of course. It consists of a picture of a classic russet potato, a type of potato suitable for mashing or baking.

This emoji can be used to describe a recipe with potatoes or a dish that’s got potatoes in them. It’s mostly used in its direct meaning, which is fine. But at the same time, best be careful regarding the context in which it is used.

The reason for this is, its indirect meaning has a slightly more negative connotation to it. In its’ non-literal form, this vegetable emoji may also be used as an underhanded insult about someone’s personality or appearance. So, if someone calls you a potato? Don’t be flattered…ever.

Roasted Sweet Potato Emoji

Bite into a sweet, tasty potato! The 🍠 Roasted Sweet Potato emoji displays a potato with purple, orange, or brown skin sliced in half to show its flesh. BUT, even if its’ got “potato” in its name, the sweet potato is NOT a potato. This obviously, also means the roasted sweet potato emoji is not a variant of the potato emoji.

In the first place, sweet potatoes are in a different botanical family than regular potatoes which makes one wonder why they are so named. Perhaps that’s a mystery we’ll never get to solve!

Anyhow, if you’re in the mood for some sweet potato deliciousness, or if you’re making a sweet potato casserole or any other dish with sweet potatoes, share this emoji.

Carrot Emoji

Take a bite of a sweet, juicy carrot! The 🥕 Carrot emoji shows a whole, bright orange carrot, topped with long green leaves, as if freshly plucked out of the garden. It is frequently used in its literal sense, to refer to carrots eaten raw, or as one of the ingredients in a meal with carrots, or as part of a healthy eating plan.

Broccoli Emoji

Fill your body with nutrients from broccoli! The 🥦 Broccoli emoji shows a rich green, tree-like head, or floret, of broccoli. Warmly referred to as the King Of Vegetables, broccoli is one of the most popular and versatile veggies around. This is because of its excellent nutritional value.

Since broccoli is notoriously disliked by children, you might need to promote this vegetable emoji more than others. When you get right down to it, removing broccoli from one’s meal plans is definitely not advisable, especially because broccoli provides people with the nutrients they need to perform at their best. It also boasts more protein than most other vegetables.

Garlic Emoji

Fuel your body with nutrients from garlic! The 🧄Garlic emoji shows an inverted clove of garlic. It’s got a thick stem, and white and purplish outer skin. Some of the health benefits of garlic include lower blood pressure and cholesterol, a reduced risk of cancer, and an overall stronger immune system.

Arguably one of the most popular and most savory ingredients in the world, it’s commonly used in conversations related to cooking and is known to make dishes more flavorful.

Onion Emoji

Onions are a popular ingredient for spicing up and flavoring food, but, as we all know, they also contribute to stinky breath. Plus, when onions are cut, they cause people’s eyes to tear up. Even so, don’t let that side effect deter you from all the other good stuff, though, onions are a huge source of vitamins, minerals and fiber.

One way to promote this important vegetable would be through its online component, the 🧅Onion emoji. This emoji consists of a cartoon image of a whole onion with its skin still attached. As for its general contour, it’s overall round, with a hairy bottom, and a pointy tip on top.

Most users place it in the caption of pictures of onion-based snacks or dishes, like onion rings or caramelized onion pasta. At the same time, others also use the onion emoji to describe someone who has bad breath, is crying, or has watery eyes.

Fruits Commonly Confused As Vegetables

As you go about encouraging the people in your life to eat more veggies, the last thing you want to happen is to be accused of spreading misinformation. One usual mistake would be to confuse fruits with vegetables and vice-versa.

When you think about it, fruits and vegetables actually do the same thing to our body, they provide an abundance of vitamins and minerals to help boost the immune system. When our immune system is strong, we’re not so susceptible to sickness and disease. Perhaps this is why certain fruits, like eggplant and cucumber, are thought to be vegetables.

Furthermore, our subconscious has been programmed to believe that vegetables are naturally green and fruits are colorful and sweet, but color and flavor are not what distinguish a fruit from a vegetable.

So what does? Simply put, a fruit is a seed-bearing structure that develops from the ovary of a flowering plant, while vegetables come from all the other parts of a plant, can be the leaves, roots, stem, etc. Basically, all the other parts do not contain seeds. Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, let’s take a look at some fruits most often mistaken for a vegetable.

Eggplant Emoji

Did that surprise you? It definitely surprised us! While it’s generally thought of as a vegetable, eggplant is actually a fruit. Eggplant is grown for its usually egg-shaped fleshy fruit and is eaten as a cooked vegetable.

The 🍆 Eggplant emoji shows a picture of a bright purple eggplant with a leafy system. Its direct meaning application is to talk about eggplants or dishes with eggplants in them, like eggplant frittata, egg parmesan, and the like.

Did you know that, soon after it appeared in 2010, it became infamously known as the “penis emoji,” because of its phallic shape. If that got you worried because you plan to use this in your social media content to describe ACTUAL vegetables, you won’t have to worry about people misunderstanding you.

In 2019, Facebook and Instagram banned the sexual use of the Eggplant emoji. They will still be allowed in captions, but can no longer be used in a manner that suggests anything sexual. So, 🍆 Eggplant emoji away!

Ear Of Corn Emoji

Nibble on a yummy kernel of corn! As you do so, chew on this interesting piece of info for a bit – what you’ve got in your mouth is actually a piece of fruit! Botanically speaking, corn is a fruit because it has seeds.

Yes, ears of corn don’t have a “fruity looking” appearance, but if you were to go by the book, scientists have long agreed that you are eating fruit when you eat anything from the reproductive area of plants. This being said, the tassel and corn ears are responsible for the reproduction and formation of corn kernels.

The 🌽 Corn emoji shows a complete ear of corn with green leaves pulled down to expose the cob and the yellow kernel. It’s usually eaten as a snack, and served grilled or with a lot of butter. The emoji may also be used to refer to things related to corn, such as cornmeal.

Cucumber Emoji

Freshen up your feed with cool cucumbers! You heard it right, your fave ingredient in salads and sandwiches is actually a fruit! Since the cucumber is a gourd with seeds, it will always be considered a fruit, no matter how much people argue that it is more of a vegetable due to its consistency and texture when eaten.

Obviously, cucumbers do not taste like oranges or other popular fruits. This does not rule them out as fruits. Fruits are classified based on their function rather than their shape, color, or flavor.

As for the 🥒 Cucumber emoji, it’s an overall accurate interpretation of the fruit we’re talking about. The emoji shows a long, green cucumber with bumpy skin.

One interesting thing to take note of when it comes to this emoji, would be how different it looks when viewed with the use of iPhone or iOS devices. Apple’s version of the Cucumber emoji shows the cucumber chopped up, while the rest of the platforms display the vegetable emoji at full length.

On how it should be used, this emoji often appears in relation to cucumber-based food and beauty products. If you want to encourage people to eat more of it, share the Cucumber emoji together with pics of popular dishes with cucumber, or pickles, which are fermented cucumbers. Some of these could be cucumber sandwiches with cream cheese, or hearty salads.

Tomato Emoji

Feel the rush of sweet juice and pulp in every bite of a tomato! The 🍅 Tomato emoji shows a red garden tomato topped with a leafy green stem. It is commonly used to refer to tomatoes. In addition, it most often appears in discussions related to garden crops, hamburger condiments, and summer foods.

You won’t have to try too hard to work on this one, though, tomatoes are found to be more likable than other vegetable emoji, like broccoli, partly because of its delicious different variations. There’s the popular condiment ketchup, tomato sauce, tomato juice, etc., and many more!

Hot Pepper Emoji

Set your tongue on fire with pepper! This is probably the spiciest fruit in the galaxy, and yes, it’s a fruit! That may seem to defy logic, but you know what they say, truth is stranger than fiction. Vegetables typically don’t have seeds, while fruits, like hot peppers, do.

Meanwhile, the 🌶️ Hot Pepper emoji shows exactly how you’d imagine a piece of pepper to look like, it’s an image of a bright red Mexican chili pepper, slightly curled and with a green stem. In all your online content count on this emoji to add a unique flavor and kick to your posts anytime, anywhere!

Most of the time it’s used to represent something “hot and spicy,” both literally AND figuratively. This is the perfect emoji to use while eating a mouth-watering spicy dish like chicken curry or roasted pepper soup. In its indirect meaning, use it in the caption while sharing a sexy picture of yourself or someone else to show how hot you are, or how hot they are!

Bell Pepper Emoji

Bell peppers are delicious, crunchy, and full of flavor! Cooks love to add them to dishes because they impart both color and flavor. One general misconception is that, while we think of bell peppers as vegetables, they are actually a fruit that belongs to the Capsicum annuum plant species.

Bell peppers are not just delightful to look at, they’re a good source of vitamin C and lycopene, too. Online, this popular fruit is represented by the Bell Pepper emoji. It’s used to symbolize bell peppers of various colors and is often used in its direct meaning.

If you happen to be cooking a dish with bell peppers or eating a dish with bell peppers, including the bell pepper emoji in your captions or conversation will definitely enhance your content.

Avocado Emoji

Most people like avocados, for so many good reasons. Firstly, they’re quite yummy, and they’re linked to a healthy lifestyle. In other words, you can sort of have your “cake” and eat it too! Plus, you can do so much with them, start your day with avocado toast, have guacamole for lunch, avocado salad for dinner, etc.

That said, unlike the other entries in this list, it’s really not so mind-boggling to think of avocado as a fruit, probably because of its sweet taste. In botanical terms, it’s a single-seeded berry that grows on trees and thrives in warmer climates.

Its online version, the 🥑 Avocado emoji, is more or less an accurate replica of a real-life avocado. This emoji shows a pear-shaped avocado, sliced in half to show its yellow-green flesh and large brown pit. It often appears in topics connected to healthy eating and healthy living.

Conclusion

Not that we’re up to speed, it’s time to turn knowledge into action. The good news is, we’re halfway there! As we all know, emojis make content appealing to read, interesting to look at, and possess the power to really resonate with your readers, but they need to be executed together along with words, as part of a strategy, for maximum effect. We talk more about that in the paragraphs below:

Reaching Out To Kids With Vegetable Emoji

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If you’re dealing with kids, help them make the connection between the cute and loveable emojis they see. and what’s on the dinner plate. Make a game out of it, and ask them to guess the ingredients of a dish using just emojis. When you’re done, explain how each vegetable benefits them. Encouraging kids to watch movies or TV shows with vegetables in them, like Veggie Tales, is another way to change how they see vegetables.

Adding Vegetables To Your Diet

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If you want to get the adults in your circle to consume more veggies, there are some unique ways to incorporate vegetables into your eating plan, like making veggie-based soups, sauces, and dips.

Soups are a great, non-intimidating way to get multiple servings of vegetables at once. You can even make veggies the base of your soup. This is to ensure the person eating it will get all the necessary nutrients.

For snacks, why not try making dips? Studies say individuals are more likely to eat veggies if they’re served with dip. Commonly containing MSG, most store-bought dips aren’t the healthiest. You can definitely do better with homemade versions.

Moreover, adding extra vegetables to sauces and dressings is yet another sneaky way to up people’s veggie intake. It really helps, especially if you’ve got picky eaters. Here’s one example—while making marinara sauce, add your favorite vegetables and herbs to the mix. Include spinach, onions, or bell peppers.

Role Model For Healthy Eating

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Last but not least, be a positive role model by eating healthy yourself. Show how important it is to make healthier food choices by eating right. Your character will inspire more people than anything else.

Alternatively, if you’d like to reach a wider audience, that’s fine, too. That said, why not share on social media the veggie-infused dishes you made? With the right vegetable emoji to help you connect with your audience, of course. Or take things one step further by pulling together your own simple and fun emoji-based recipes.

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Whether you wanna go big or start and stay small, always remember consistency is key. A strategy is a winning strategy only when it is well-executed, and consistency is a part of that. Changing a person’s perception takes time, it doesn’t happen in an instant, even if they’re family. But it can be done with hard work and patience.