Are nuts fruit or vegetables?

Answer 1

neither ,nut is a nut and everyone should have them aleast once a week there that good for you!

Answer 2

Is A Nut A Fruit

Answer 3

Nuts are neither vegetables nor fruits, because they are their own category. Yes, nuts are a category like fruits or vegetables or funghi (mushrooms).

And don't get confused with peanuts. The name is wrong, because peanuts are not nuts but legumes! The fact that their name includes the word "nuts" is only because in the old times (when the name was given) people wrongly believed it was a nut. Now that the name is known, you can hardly change it although it is known now peanuts are not nuts.

Answer 4

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Are nuts fruit or vegetables?

Answer 5

I think some nuts are Legumes, like cahews are legumes. Some nuts might be considered fruits, but when somebody describes taking a nut out of its shell they describe the nut as the meat, as in to remove the meat of the nut from its shell, also nuts are also considered a protein. So maybe it is not a fruit/vegetable/or meat but only a protein, vegans and vegetarians consume nuts as proteins. It can also maybe considered a bean. I hope I helped you more than Iconfused you.

Answer 6

nuts are derived from fruit.
The confusion between Fruit vs Vegetable arises from differential usage between scientists and cooks/gardeners.
A fruit is the ripened ovary of a flower which encloses a seed or seeds. The 'nut' is the seed. A vegetable does not have a pod or separate external casing holding a seed or seeds. 'Vegetable' refers to another edible part of the plant that is *not* the fruit.

There are treegrown true 'nuts' and leguminous 'nuts'. Peanuts are not true nuts, but the seed of a legume - but they are still a fruit, as they are sprung from a flower and part of a pod/seed. The pod is forced underground to grow, which is why people sometimes think of them as a vegetable - like a potato.

Tomatoes, Pumpkin, Peas and Beans and are fruit too, they are just commonly referred to as vegetables and used like vegetables... Eating the leaves, stalks or shoots of these plants would be eating vegetables - but we usually eat the fruits.

Answer 7

Fruits. The easy way to tell the difference is to remember that fruits involve procreation. Vegetables are plant parts, like roots, leaves, and stalks. Since nuts are actually seeds, they are fruits.

Answer 8

I think that nuts are neither, even though they grow on trees. On the food pyramid they are put down as protein that is good for vegs. Great question!

Answer 9

A plant is a plant or part of a herb used as food

Answer 10

Both are good for you, each fruit/vegetable has different vitamins. And so as more variety, as better. Vegetables have generally less sugar than fruits.