2006-10-21 15:55:42 · 10 answers · asked by PETER FREAKING!! GRIFFIN 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No, it makes it the fruit of a plant. It does remind me of my favorite saying though: You mean chocolate is not a vegetable???
(It comes from a cocoa bean, you know).
2006-10-21 15:58:51 · answer #1 · answered by swarr2001 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many, just as yourself, conclude the coffee bean is in fact a bean, unfortunately you are incorrect. It is a seed from a coffee plant. Now that you know that, that should answer your question.
2006-10-21 16:04:13 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A so called coffee bean is more accurately the pit of the fruit of a coffee tree.
2006-10-21 16:20:00 · answer #3 · answered by writingpseudonym 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a coffee bean is a vegetable does that make a jelly bean a vegetable?
2006-10-21 16:02:09 · answer #4 · answered by deepinthought 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Coffee is a small, bean sized fruit, red when ripe, containing a large seed that is the coffee bean of commerce. Beans on the other hand are legumes.
2006-10-21 16:11:06 · answer #5 · answered by Victory ! 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
the bean itself is, coffee is actually the tea of the bean
2006-10-21 16:00:32 · answer #6 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't be silly. LOL!!! Cocoa also comes from a bean. Does that make chocolate a vegetable?!!! LOL AGAIN!!!
2006-10-21 16:12:24 · answer #7 · answered by solov 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Philosophically speaking: if it wants to be
Psychologically speaking: then u should support it.
2006-10-21 15:59:34 · answer #8 · answered by Belle 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
PLant?
2006-10-21 16:00:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That would be a seed.
2006-10-21 16:41:57 · answer #10 · answered by Laura C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋