The Most Popular Vegetable In Every State

Here at EatingWell, we love our vegetables. From easy grilled vegetable sides to vegetable-forward comfort food recipes, we enjoy them every day of the week, and many of you do too. Beyond their vibrant colors and delicious flavors, vegetables of all shapes and sizes boast a variety of health benefits. Making sure you are getting enough in your day to day is crucial for longevity and cutting chronic disease risk (Check out our Eat More Vegetables Challenge for tips and recipe inspiration to up your intake).  Though it is important to eat a variety of veggies every day, people certainly have their preferences. To learn more, we took a look at the most popular vegetable in every state in the US. We took a look at the most searched vegetables in every state. It may not surprise you that potatoes were at the top of the list for nearly every state, with tomatoes as a close second. To avoid listing potatoes 50 times in a row, we chose the most popular unique vegetable for each state. After parsing out the top searched vegetables, we found the single vegetable that got the most love in each state (relative to other states and total veggie searches in that state). Several have ties to the climate and the cuisine, like chile peppers in Colorado and New Mexico. Some we could definitely see coming (looking at you, Idaho). But others on this list surprised us. What’s the most popular vegetable in your state? Check out the list below to find out. different vegetables with pins indicating which USA states they’re from Credit: Getty Images / CSA Images / anilyanik / Liliya Shlapak Alabama  Corn  Alaska Winter Squash  Arizona Chile Peppers  Arkansas Onion Lemon-Garlic Vinaigrette Credit: Eva Kolenko Pictured Recipe: Lemon-Garlic Vinaigrette California  Garlic Colorado  Chile peppers  Connecticut  Zucchini   Delaware Cabbage District of Columbia  Bell Peppers  Florida  Spinach  Georgia  Summer Squash Hawaii Pumpkin  lemon rosemary melting potatoes Idaho  Potato  Pictured Recipe: Lemon-Rosemary Melting Potatoes Illinois  Broccoli Indiana Corn Iowa Cabbage Kansas Onion Kentucky Summer Squash Louisiana Sweet Potato Roasted-Butternut-Squash-Soup-1 Pictured Recipe: Roasted Butternut Squash Soup Maine Winter Squash Maryland Garlic Massachusetts Broccoli Michigan Bell Peppers Minnesota Winter Squash Mississippi Potatoes Missouri  Onion Montana  Winter Squash  Nebraska  Corn New Mexican Red Chile Pictured Recipe: Jonathan Perno’s New Mexican Red Chile Nevada Chile Peppers New Hampshire Cabbage New Jersey  Tomato New Mexico  Chile Peppers New York  Garlic North Carolina  Summer Squash North Dakota  Cabbage Ohio Zucchini  Oklahoma Potato Balsamic-Parmesan Sauteed Spinach Oregon Spinach Pictured Recipe: Balsamic-Parmesan Sautéed Spinach Pennsylvania Tomato Rhode Island  Summer Squash South Carolina  Broccoli South Dakota  Winter Squash Tennessee Sweet Potato Texas Chile Pepper Utah Garlic Vermont Cabbage Virginia Bell Pepper Washington  Broccoli West Virginia Summer Squash Wisconsin Onion Wyoming Chile Pepper

Here at EatingWell, we love our vegetables. From easy grilled vegetable sides to vegetable-forward comfort food recipes, we enjoy them every day of the week, and many of you do too. Beyond their vibrant colors and delicious flavors, vegetables of all shapes and sizes boast a variety of health benefits. Making sure you are getting enough in your day to day is crucial for longevity and cutting chronic disease risk (Check out our Eat More Vegetables Challenge for tips and recipe inspiration to up your intake). 

Though it is important to eat a variety of veggies every day, people certainly have their preferences. To learn more, we took a look at the most popular vegetable in every state in the US. We took a look at the most searched vegetables in every state. It may not surprise you that potatoes were at the top of the list for nearly every state, with tomatoes as a close second. To avoid listing potatoes 50 times in a row, we chose the most popular unique vegetable for each state. After parsing out the top searched vegetables, we found the single vegetable that got the most love in each state (relative to other states and total veggie searches in that state). Several have ties to the climate and the cuisine, like chile peppers in Colorado and New Mexico. Some we could definitely see coming (looking at you, Idaho). But others on this list surprised us. What’s the most popular vegetable in your state? Check out the list below to find out.

different vegetables with pins indicating which USA states they're from   Credit: Getty Images / CSA Images / anilyanik / Liliya Shlapak

Alabama 

Corn 

Alaska

Winter Squash 

Arizona

Chile Peppers 

Arkansas

Onion

Lemon-Garlic Vinaigrette   Credit: Eva Kolenko

Pictured Recipe: Lemon-Garlic Vinaigrette

California 

Garlic

Colorado 

Chile peppers 

Connecticut 

Zucchini  

Delaware

Cabbage

District of Columbia 

Bell Peppers 

Florida 

Spinach 

Georgia 

Summer Squash

Hawaii

Pumpkin 

lemon rosemary melting potatoes   

Idaho 

Potato 

Pictured Recipe: Lemon-Rosemary Melting Potatoes

Illinois 

Broccoli

Indiana

Corn

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Sweet Potato

Roasted-Butternut-Squash-Soup-1   

Pictured Recipe: Roasted Butternut Squash Soup

Maine

Winter Squash

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Bell Peppers

Minnesota

Mississippi

Potatoes

Missouri 

Montana 

Nebraska 

New Mexican Red Chile   

Pictured Recipe: Jonathan Perno’s New Mexican Red Chile

Nevada

Chile Peppers

New Hampshire

New Jersey 

Tomato

New Mexico 

New York 

North Carolina 

North Dakota 

Ohio

Zucchini 

Oklahoma

Potato

Balsamic-Parmesan Sauteed Spinach   

Oregon

Spinach

Pictured Recipe: Balsamic-Parmesan Sautéed Spinach

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island 

South Carolina 

South Dakota 

Tennessee

Texas

Chile Pepper

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Bell Pepper

Washington 

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Wyoming

different vegetables with pins indicating which USA states they’re from Credit: Getty Images / CSA Images / anilyanik / Liliya Shlapak

different vegetables with pins indicating which USA states they’re from

Credit: Getty Images / CSA Images / anilyanik / Liliya Shlapak

Lemon-Garlic Vinaigrette Credit: Eva Kolenko

Lemon-Garlic Vinaigrette

Credit: Eva Kolenko

lemon rosemary melting potatoes

lemon rosemary melting potatoes

Roasted-Butternut-Squash-Soup-1

Roasted-Butternut-Squash-Soup-1

New Mexican Red Chile

New Mexican Red Chile

Balsamic-Parmesan Sauteed Spinach

Balsamic-Parmesan Sauteed Spinach