• howrar@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    I decided to Google it as you suggested. The term “vegetable” doesn’t really have a single widely accepted definition. It can apparently be used to describe any edible part of a plant by the broadest definition (i.e. a fruit is a vegetable).

    • NataliePortland@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      Yes that’s the fun of it! What are green beans and peas if not vegetable? People got really mixed up I think by the food pyramid, which is nothing more than government propaganda and it hasn’t been used for years anyway