![]() ![]() Now, tomatoes are fruits, botanically speaking. (The importer hoped to avoid the 10% tax imposed on imported vegetables at the time.) In 1893, a fruit importer argued before the Supreme Court that tomatoes should be classified as fruits, not as vegetables as the Port Authority of New York had decreed. This strangely nebulous distinction has even had legal ramifications. (Culinary "fruits," by contrast, are often sweet or used in sweet recipes.) Instead, it's used by grocers and others in the food industry, usually to identify produce that's savory or used in savory recipes. What, then, explains the pervasive myth that green beans are vegetables? Well, the terminology is all mixed up! In fact, the term "vegetable" isn't really used by botanists at all. The legume, in fact, is a type of dry fruit. Cool, right? But what if, at the Thanksgiving table, your smartass cousin insists that the green bean can't be a fruit because it's a legume? ![]() The green beans we eat are immature, with the seeds still sitting inside the pod. Instead, they are made shelf-stable through canning. But it's unlikely that you'll find mature green beans in bulk bins. Then, you'd be left with a "shelf-stable" dried bean, freed of its papery pod and ready to be sold in bulk bins. ![]()
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