Vegetables are the key component of a balanced human diet and also the main driver in achieving global nutritional security by providing nutrients, vitamins and minerals. In India, vegetables alone contribute 58.73% of total horticultural production with production of 168.3 million tonnes from 9.54 million ha. This spectacular growth in vegetable production has increased the productivity to 17.64 t/ha and per capita availability more than 250g. This magnificent increase was possible due to development of improved varieties/hybrids, and production and protection technologies through systematic research conditions of our country permit to grow more than 60 cultivated and 30 lesser known vegetables, this remarkable production is contributed only to a few major vegetable crops. A large group of vegetables, having immense potential in terms of nutritional and medicinal qualities as well as climatic adaptability, has not yet got attention by the growers and researches. In fact, these are the real gold miners of nutrition for health security, being a rich of source of proteins, vitamins (A, B, B2, B3, B6, B12, C and folic acid), minerals (calcium phosphorus, iron), pigments, secondary metabolites, antioxidants, and dietary fibre. These under-utilized or neglected vegetable crops are neither grown commercially on large scale nor traded widely. Most of them are often available in the regional local markets but rarely known in other parts of the country.