Vegetable is a culinary category not a biological one, tomato falls strongly in the culinary side of vegetable not fruit. It would be weird to add tomato to your dessert unlike everything from currants to bananas to watermelon.

And corn being a vegetable is something I have to assume our government lied to us about or something. It’s a really weird cultural thing. Maybe because it’s a plant that’s easy to grill and we’re afraid to try grilling bok choy.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Huh so you just make up categories in your head based on what goes in a fruit salad and what can be grilled to justify the fact that you don't know.

See this is why going to school is important. I recommend reading up on why produce are either fruit or vegetable.

There's only one sense, the biological one. You don't recategorize things based on the ingredients of recipes. That's just ridiculous.

The only government conspiracy i see here is the degradation of the education system where everyone knows AR-15 means armalite rifle 15 and thinks tomato is a vegetable because it doesn't go with fruits.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

What I’m trying to express is that savory fruits are better treated as vegetables than fruits from a nutritional and culinary perspective which is good, since there is no such thing botanically as a vegetable. It’s similar to how usually roots are vegetables but some like potatoes and yams are better treated as more similar to grains in a nutritional perspective due to their high starch content. We’re also currently moving from treating mushrooms as vegetables to more like meats or nuts due to their primary macronutrient being protein and their flavor profile being umami. The same is happening with beans.