is a green bean a fruit or a vegee???

Question

I never did figure this out.....

Answer 1

veggie

Answer 2

A green bean is a legume (bean or pea), not a veg but like a fruit. A vegetable is dug up from the soil. A fruit is the seed-bearing part of the plant, after the flowers bloom and fade. So, a green bean is like a fruit...just not sweet and juicy.

Answer 3

"Green beans (American English) or French beans (British English) are the unripe fruits of any kind of bean, including the yardlong bean, the hyacinth bean, the pea, the winged bean, the carper (vellum) bean, and especially the common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris), whose pods are also usually called string beans in the northeastern United States, but can also go by snap beans. Varieties have been bred especially for the fleshiness, flavor, or sweetness of their pods. Smaller bean pods are often referred to by the French name haricots verts."

Answer 4

The culinary distinction of fruit and vegetable is different from the botanical definition of fruit. See link below. Botanically, beans are fruits.

Answer 5

Green beans (American English) or French beans (British English) are the unripe fruits of any kind of bean.So that makes it a fruit.

Answer 6

Fruit is a botanical term. Vegetable is a culinary term. Sometimes boundaries overlap.

Answer 7

Veggie

Answer 8

Vegetable.

Answer 9

fine, voted on a couple, honestly thought it was a veg, now not too sure at all. totally agree that fruit has seeds/pips, but the over/underground thing, well, stumped! just remembered, a banana is none of them, it grows on a tree, so technically not fruit or veg.

Answer 10

Neither. It's technically a member of the bean family.

Answer 11

Vegetable.