Vegetables for Dummies

Ummm, Puty? some of
those are fruits

We don't stop by WritEdge.com very often, probably because the pages of the site are so plastered with advertising, popups, and pop-unders that it might as well be a porn site (or so we're told...). When checking old posts not long ago, however, we ran across an admirably dumbass post by one putyliz that put us in mind of the WritEdgians. We checked on Liz (real name perhaps Purity Wamalwa), and found her worthy of another award. This time, it's for "Facts on Vegetables you need to Know."¹

Given that Puty's (probably) not a native English speaker, we won't ding her (much) for grammatical mistakes. We did have to wonder, however, whether she learned her English from a native Russian speaker or just doesn't use articles:

"Vegetables harbor diverse range of contaminants for instance..."

...which would probably read better as "a diverse"; doncha think? But enough of that: let's have a look at Liz's factual errors. After all, that's why we hand out our award, not fractured English (except to people trying to improve our grammar).

• "The various types include green and leafy vegetables, roots, bulbs and tubers, fruit vegetables as well as seeds and pods.": We're pretty sure fruits aren't vegetables. Nuts, which are seeds, aren't generally classified as vegetables, either.
• "Wash vegetables well before cooking, scrubbing with hands. Vegetables harbor diverse range of contaminants for instance, salmonella...": You may not get salmonella off by scrubbing; it's equally important to make certain that vegetables are fully cooked.

• "Seasonal produce usually are local grown and helpful for yielding greater nutritional benefits to the body.": There's no proof that locally-grown fruits and vegetables "[yield] greater nutritional benefits to the body," just that they're better for the planet. Fresher, too...
• "Preparation procedure depends on the vegetable’s make. The quality attribute of vegetables is determined by the ability to preserve its nutritional properties, color and flavor.": A vegetable's "make"? Now she's just throwing random words at the page.
• "Juice extracted while cooking is essential for thinning and highly nutritious for body wellness.": We just aren't sure whether she means weight loss when she says "thinning"...
• "Did you know that the natural form of vegetables embody live organic elements?": Well, duh.

There's much, much more like that; and way too much of it just doesn't make any sense. It's hard to tell whether Liz spun this content from another language or she just couldn't string together coherent English on her own. Frankly, though, that "fruit vegetables" thing is all we needed to give the lady her second Dumbass of the Day award.

¹ This website is now defunct, and the Wayback machine at archive.org didn't archive this particular post. Oh, well, no loss...

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