Well, if it's good enough to reduce import tariffs, it's good enough for me! "Eat fruit " officially checked off of To Do list.

BTW, can I count rhubarb as a fruit?

This is a world in which tomatoes count as vegetables, because that's who they hang out with. Rhubarb hangs out with strawberries, so I say it's a fruit.

Relatedly: is edamame a vegetable? Like lima beans? Or is it more of a protein-y "pulse" thing? (I can't quite remember what "pulses" are, only that they are a food category.)

Still relatedly because, food: HOLY SHIT, roasted broccoli is SO GOOD. I want to roast ALL THE THINGS.

Relatedly: is edamame a vegetable? Like lima beans? Or is it more of a protein-y "pulse" thing? (I can't quite remember what "pulses" are, only that they are a food category.)

Edamame is soy beans. I think "pulses" is British for "legumes"? (At least, that's mostly how I've seen it used.)

Edamame is soy beans.

I knew edamame is soy beans, but I'm still fuzzy on the category. Protein, not vegetable?

I gave the boys a dollar coin for each of theirs. It seems like I remember getting a quarter, but it has been a long while. I lost my last one at 59 and didn't get a thing but a big dentist bill. It didn't have an adult tooth under it so it never came out naturally.

Protein and vegetable aren't mutually exclusive categories.

(Sorry. Describing a food as "a protein" or "a carb" is a weird pet peeve of mine. Those are things contained in foods, not food categories. And I know plenty of diet plans use those terms, and it annoys me both in terms of scientific accuracy and in terms of the weird relationship to food that I've seen it foster. Not that using those terms makes everyone have a weird relationship to food -- just that my most significant experience with a food system that uses those classifications was a pretty bad one, that involved an attitude toward food that I found really damaging.)

(And I'll stop talking now, because this is getting way more into psychology than nutrition.)

Protein and vegetable aren't mutually exclusive categories.

I literally don't know how else to ask my question. What is edamame? Is it considered a vegetable? If not, what is it considered?

It's a legume. Which is a type of vegetable biologically, since it's a part of a plant. But usually not considered a vegetable culinarily, since legumes are really a whole separate category in terms of how you cook them. It contains a lot of protein. It also contains carbs. And a little bit of fat.

What is edamame? Is it considered a vegetable? If not, what is it considered?

Yummy? Okay, maybe not helpful. But it is!