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[-] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Vegetable is also exclusively a culinary definition. Vegetables are essentially any edible plant structure that are not sweet and aren't the seeds directly (which are grains or nuts). Typically vegetables are flowers, leaves, stems, or roots, but some non-sweet fruits like cucumbers, peppers, and green beans are also squarely in the vegetable category despite definitely being fruits, no reason they can't be both.

[-] lugal@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

And the concept of a vegetable varies culturally. I live in Germany and I consider mais vegetables (it feels weird to call it corn in this context since other grains aren't). In Romania (and elsewhere I guess) potatoes are a vegetable which they aren't for me.

[-] Soggy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Carrots, corn, and peas all poke holes in that definition. It's a culinary definition but also an arbitrary and subjective one, trying to define rules just makes it more ridiculous.

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