Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae) used for food or feed. They are also known as legumes.
You guys are quick but incorrect. The song is correct.... they are a fruit!
Wiko; "Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit" is a children's song about the flatulence often experienced after eating beans. The song is noteworthy for correctly identifying the bean as a fruit, not a vegetable.
Funny. Argue with an encyclopedia! Beans are a fruit that contains seeds. The whole bean is considered the casing containing the seeds, that's what makes it a fruit with seeds.
"Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit" is a children's song about the flatulence often experienced after eating beans. The song is noteworthy for correctly identifying the bean as a fruit, not a vegetable.
Bean is a common name for large plant seeds of several genera of Fabaceae (formerly Leguminosae) used for food or feed. They are also known as legumes.
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"Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit" is a children's song about the flatulence often experienced after eating beans. The song is noteworthy for correctly identifying the bean as a fruit, not a vegetable.
sorry ,but you dont plant fruits, you plant their seeds...like apple seeds...beans are the seeds to be planted if you grow beans... Wiki must be wrong on that one...
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Think about it; You are using tunnel vision to just see the part you usually eat. Think about green beans. They are beans in their whole form with the 'seeds' inside(like all fruit). All beans start out like this until processed. They are a fruit. Musical fruit. You do not believe what you read? That's not my words, it's from the encyclopedia.
Think about it; You are using tunnel vision to just see the part you usually eat. Think about green beans. They are beans in their whole form with the 'seeds' inside(like all fruit). All beans start out like this until processed. They are a fruit. Musical fruit. You do not believe what you read? That's not my words, it's from the encyclopedia.
Think about it; You are using tunnel vision to just see the part you usually eat. Think about green beans. They are beans in their whole form with the 'seeds' inside(like all fruit). All beans start out like this until processed. They are a fruit. Musical fruit. You do not believe what you read? That's not my words, it's from the encyclopedia.
green beans are the beans inside ,but you also eat the 'shell', and called green beans , like in some cases peas, green peas...most cases you 'shell' them...even though the entire plant is called peas, the peas are the seeds....
well, it depends if you eat the shelled seeds or just the seeds....
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A pea, although treated as a vegetable in cooking, is botanically a fruit; the term is most commonly used to describe the small spherical seeds or the pods of the legume Pisum sativum.[1] The name is also used to describe other edible seeds from the Fabaceae like the pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), the cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and the seeds from several species of Lathyrus.
"the term is most commonly used to describe the small spherical seeds or the pods of the legume Pisum sativum."
when I talk about peas , I dont think of the shelled flatish "fruit" that you sometimes get , I think of the green little roundish 'seeds'..or the hard yellow peas (that we in Sweden make pea soup from, whole peas , not split) ,those would hardly be a fruit!?
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good discussion...
now where do these 'fruits' in SF come from?
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The name is also used to describe other edible seeds from the Fabaceae like the pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), the cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and the seeds from several species of Lathyrus.
That's a strange coincidence. Just the other day, my wife asked me what I wanted for dinner, and I said I wanted to eat her Vigna unguiculata, and she slapped me......
The name is also used to describe other edible seeds from the Fabaceae like the pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), the cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) and the seeds from several species of Lathyrus.
That's a strange coincidence. Just the other day, my wife asked me what I wanted for dinner, and I said I wanted to eat her Vigna unguiculata, and she slapped me......
Rice is a grain, like wheat and oats. Corn is a grain as well, but when it's immature, as it is canned or eaten on the cob, it's considered a vegetable. I suppose if you ate immature rice, it would be a vegetable but it doesn't sound very appetizing to me.
anything that bears or is a seed is considered a fruit. There are different kinds of fruit, ie nuts are a kind of fruit. Vegetables are any part of the plant that doesn't have to do with making new plants. Lettuce is a leaf, carrot is a root, celery is a stem.
This makes the distinction some are making between the seeds inside the pod and the pod itself moot.
but he uses a different term...
