What is a bean?

Question

Is it a fruit, Veggie or a nut? I dunno....

Answer 1

It's none of the answers above.....it's a LEGUME.

Answer 2

A bean is part of the legume family. high in protein.

Answer 3

i dont know but my friend and co/worker calls me little bean

Answer 4

its a british comedian character Mr. Bean...lol

Answer 5

I guess its a veggie.

Answer 6

Well fruits have seeds, and usually grow above ground, so a green bean would be a fruit. But I don't think anyone would correct you if you called it a Veggie as that is what most people consider them and where you find them in most supermarkets.

Answer 7

Actually, as with the "is a tomato a fruit or veggie" question, you're mixing up culinary and botanical definitions.

Botanically, green beans are legumes, which are a type of fruit. Dry beans are merely the seeds inside this fruit (although not the same species as typical green beans). In the culinary sense, green beans are vegetables and dry beans are used for their high protein content.

Tomatoes are botanical fruits and potatoes are botanically stems. They are all called vegetables in the culinary sense. In botany, there is no such thing as a 'vegetable'.

Botanically, rice, wheat and corn are also fruits. Each grain is a seperate fruit. They are a special type of fruit called a 'caryopsis' where the seed wall and fruit wall are fused.

In the case of apples, only the core is the real fruit. The fleshy part of an apple is the receptacle and is NOT a botanical fruit.

I know it's hard to get used to the idea of rice being more of a fruit than apples, but that's how botany works, and that's why it's important to specify how you define things (botanically or otherwise).

Answer 8

A mexican lol jk...

Answer 9

Vegetable. A legume is a vegetable. Fruit has seeds. So, the bean is a vegetable.

Answer 10

it's a starch

Answer 11

It is a vegetable