ocr: Fruits and Vegetables CABBAGE Egyptians grew vegetables and GRAPES DATES fruit in small household gardens LEEKS and orchards. They also gathered - vegetables and fruit from the marshes near the river. If the crops were poor, people ate the plant called papyrus. Papyrus was always plentiful, but it did not taste good. Egyptians ate lettuce, cabbage, peas, MELONS PEAS radishes, onions, garlic, cucumbers, POMEGRANATES gourds, leeks, beans, lentils, and olives. They also ate fruit, including in Ancient Egypt was only about one-third melons, figs, red and green grapes, the size of a modern pomegran ...
