2006-09-28 07:24:43 · 15 answers · asked by firefly 4 in Food & Drink ➔ Entertaining
My guess is that coco beans are vegetables that you don't eat in their whole unprocessed form, just as you don't eat coffee beans or soy beans unprocessed. You need to process them into something else - chocolate - before you can consume them, so you start with a vegetable and end up with a processed product derived from that vegetable.
2006-09-28 07:33:54 · answer #1 · answered by Chillipepper 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most beans are considered legumes, not vegetables. There is so little cocoa bean in chocolate as compared to the other ingredients that it would not qualify on the nutritional scale. It does have nutritional value, though, especially dark chocolate for the anti-oxidants.
2006-09-28 07:34:07 · answer #2 · answered by dbackbarb 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The coaco bean that chocolate comes from is actually grown on a tree,and is If I am not mistaken a fruit. It kinda looks like an apple, but is chocolate.You open it up and can eat the chocolate right out of the fruit.Might I add it's quite delicious!
2006-09-28 15:24:57 · answer #3 · answered by ♥xvioletx1882♥ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Beans are a vegetable, and cocoa beans possibly are too, because they are natural and come from the earth, but choclate is made from a few different ingredients, so it is not a vegetable.
2006-09-28 07:36:02 · answer #4 · answered by *Logan's Mommy* 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because chocolate is a by-product made from the raw material cocoa beans, Moreover chocolate contains no fibre,right?
2006-09-28 07:39:53 · answer #5 · answered by halokitty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because chocolate is in a food group all by itself, right at the top of the food pyramid, that should not be tainted by association with any lesser substance. Especially imported dark chocolate.
By contrast, carrot cake definitely IS a vegetable. I promise. ;-)
2006-09-28 08:35:21 · answer #6 · answered by Fogjazz49-Retired 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question....then coffee should be a vegetable too!..We could start a movement..demand it....lol. But you know, there would be those that felt that jelly beans should become vegetable then...
2006-09-28 07:31:41 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it's because not all beans are vegetables, some are legumes, such as pinto beans.
2006-09-28 07:37:52 · answer #8 · answered by pyramidfun 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've been telling my nutritionist all along that Godiva is healthy. Your pretty smart and will go far.
2006-09-28 20:34:07 · answer #9 · answered by Mickeymouse20 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because it goes through processing to become a candy...
why isn't milk considered a mamal, if milk comes a cow, and all cows are mamals...
2006-09-28 07:32:36 · answer #10 · answered by Alexandra 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋