Don't worry too much about how people classify different plant foods. The botanic definition is the only one that's actually consistent and well defined (legumes are fruits or seeds), and it's also the most useless for regular conversation (an ear of corn is a fruit).
I have no idea. I feel like vegetables in some sense are things like broccoli, carrots, eggplant, whatever, and stuff like lettuce and spinach are not "vegetables" but they're still vegetable. Anyone giving nutrition advice must have a headache trying to generalise.
Legumes are legumes
Are legumes not some kind of vegetable matter?
Don't worry too much about how people classify different plant foods. The botanic definition is the only one that's actually consistent and well defined (legumes are fruits or seeds), and it's also the most useless for regular conversation (an ear of corn is a fruit).
If you want to be a huge hit at parties, an ear of corn is technically an infructescence, while the individual grains are fruits (caryopsis).
I legit had to look it up, apparently they are lol. Thought they were seperate
I have no idea. I feel like vegetables in some sense are things like broccoli, carrots, eggplant, whatever, and stuff like lettuce and spinach are not "vegetables" but they're still vegetable. Anyone giving nutrition advice must have a headache trying to generalise.
Yeah classification is probably bogged down by old food pyramid era-terminologies, makes figuring out what is and isn't good for you pretty difficult.