Is corn a vegetable or a grain

[RPM]

i just dont know :shrug: - please help

[GOPisEvil]

1. Both. In whole or kernel form it is a veggie. Ground, it's a grain.

That's my answer and I'm sticking to it.

[havocmom]

2. If we eat the seed part of a grass plant, it is grain

rice, wheat, corn and so on technically are grains

If we eat the part which bears the seed, then it is fruit. Apples, peaches, bannanas and so on. Tomatoes and other things we tend to list as veggies are often really fruit

It a veggie if we actually eat part of the plant that doesn't have to do with reproduction (no seeds)

Then, just to confuse us, there are nuts and legumes. Peas, beans, peanuts, many other seed pod bearing plants including mesquite and honey locust trees. Very murky. Don't go there... just eat them. If you garden, plant them. They are good for you and for your soil as they fix nitrogen.

Then there is the most important plant matter food crop, Chocolate. It is everything and more ;)

[RPM]

3. so when i eat the kernels of corn, it is grain?

so confused........

[cprise]

4. Corn kernels are always grain

...and grain is a kind of vegetable.

Fruit is a sweet, seed-bearing part of the veg.

Legumes are, well, beans and nuts (they would be fruits if they stored sugar instead of fats).

Anything else is classified as 'veg' with the following modifiers: leafy, green, root.


The common reference to 'veggies' means non-grain, non-legume, non-fruit vegetables except a few fruits that are less sweet. For thee sake of healthy eating, green veg is usually the kind most lacking in peoples' diets.

[havocmom]

5. Yep. What cprise said ^^

If you ate the corn stock, THAT would be vegetable. And your dentist would be pissed.