What is edamame? Is it considered a vegetable? If not, what is it considered?
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Laura - May 07, 2014 5:10:17 pm PDT #27126 of 30000
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Steph L. - May 07, 2014 5:10:27 pm PDT #27127 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
Hil R. - May 07, 2014 5:11:49 pm PDT #27128 of 30000
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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.
-t - May 07, 2014 5:13:52 pm PDT #27129 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
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.
Steph L. - May 07, 2014 5:14:21 pm PDT #27130 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Fair enough. I'll just eat it and consider it not a Twinkie and therefore a win.
(Honestly, in my quest to eat more vegetables, when I can't figure out is something even qualifies as a vegetable, it makes me want to give up.)
(I learned long ago that the corn-and-potatoes-aren't-REALLY-vegetables-and-carrots-barely-count ship has sailed. I was hoping other things that grow in the ground would be more clear cut.)
Jesse - May 07, 2014 5:15:19 pm PDT #27131 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You can make a quest to eat more plants?
meara - May 07, 2014 5:15:55 pm PDT #27132 of 30000
Well, Teppy, do you consider other beans veggies? I would say I'm more likely to consider edamame a veggie because (a) it's green and (b) sometimes it's in veggie mixes, but generally I'd think it is in the "legumes" category, more?
Steph L. - May 07, 2014 5:17:36 pm PDT #27133 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
You can make a quest to eat more plants?
I know, but things that grow in the ground don't get counted as vegetables, like corn! I have one sanctimonious friend on FB who never EVER missed the opportunity to tell me I'm not eating vegetables if I think corn and carrots are vegetables. (They're "really sugar", according to her.)
Pfft. Next thing she'll tell me Corn Nuts aren't nutritious! Especially the BBQ flavor!
-t - May 07, 2014 5:18:40 pm PDT #27134 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I don't think I understand what would make something that is a plant or part of a plant not qualify as a vegetable.
Steph L. - May 07, 2014 5:20:16 pm PDT #27135 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
do you consider other beans veggies?
Green beans/string beans (are they the same???) and lima beans, yes. Are snow peas beans? Peas are legumes, right? But they seem like veggies to me. I think, like you said, it might be the fact they're green.
But then I wouldn't think of chickpeas, black beans, or kidney beans as veggies.
I really just want to be able to count my servings of veggies and know I actually ate veggies and not some impostor that's really a starchy protein/legume/something.
Damn it, back to Corn Nuts.
(I do love Corn Nuts.)