why isn't chocolate considered a vegetable if chocolate comes from coco beans and all beans are vegetables

Answer 1

Hehe! Love it, that's my new excuse for eating so much chocolate! I used to work in a chocolate shop, wish I'd thought of that when I worked there to tell all the customers who used to worry bout chocolate being unhealthy!

Answer 2

Nice try, but the beans are processed and have other things added to make chocolate. If you want to eat coco beans (which I wouldn't suggest), then maybe you could consuider it a vegetable.

Answer 3

Actually, beans are considered legumes, not vegetables.

Coco beans are only one ingredient used to make chocolate. Using that logic, strawberry ice cream would be considered a fruit, and carrot cake would be classified as a vegetable.

Answer 4

For the same reason Tofu (Bean Curd) is not considered a vegetable ... they are products or by products of the processing of the original vegetable but not a vegetable them selves.

Answer 5

Beans go into a catagory all its own: legumes. Also, chocolate is processed with other ingredients, sugar, milk [sometimes, thickeners. You could consider a coco bean as a legume, but not chocolate as a legume or vegitable.
...i've tried to reason this with my boyfriend... it's never worked...

Answer 6

I was just going to ask this question myself. It's a bean. It is technically a vegetable when in bean form. Owever, milk and sugar are often added,altering its nature from bean to candy.

Answer 7

Because they're not beans. They're the seeds of the cacao tree. The seeds grow in pods, about 50 seeds per pod. They're just called "beans," like the seeds in the berries of the coffee plant are called "beans."

Answer 8

because the cocoa beans do not come form a pod, like say peas. And whoever said chocolate is synthetic? Uff.

Answer 9

It is highly processed. If you just ate the beans, you'd be okay with your argument. Sweet bean paste is also considered a sweet.

Answer 10

Chocolate is a vegetable in my book!