Vegetables

While vegetables are rarely used to produce frozen desserts, they are extensively used in savory preparations (see savory items). Most of the vegetables used in that chapter are technically fruits, such as avocadoes, tomatoes, and cucumbers, but because of their lower sugar content are incorrectly known as vegetables. Besides the sugar content, there is another characteristic that differentiates fruits from actual vegetables, and that is that vegetables do not ripen at all post harvest. Once they are picked from the plant, they begin to decay. While fruits can improve, vegetables deteriorate.