Edamame is soy beans.
I knew edamame is soy beans, but I'm still fuzzy on the category. Protein, not vegetable?
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Edamame is soy beans.
I knew edamame is soy beans, but I'm still fuzzy on the category. Protein, not vegetable?
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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?
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It's a legume.
So not a vegetable. I'm assuming, since you didn't say yes, it is a vegetable.
I'm frustrated, because I literally cannot think of another way to phrase what seemed to me like a yes-or-no question.
See edit. "Vegetable" is used a lot of different ways, most of them contradicting each other. It's a vegetable, or part of a vegetable, by some of those definitions.
I consider it a vegetable. But if I needed some protein and I had edamame, that would do. They are a wonder food that can fit multiple niches.
I would not consider peanuts a vegetable, even though they are also legumes. I'm pretty sure that's wrong-headed of me, but there it is.
There's probably a tariff ruling that could clear this up.