You can make a quest to eat more plants?

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?

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!

I don't think I understand what would make something that is a plant or part of a plant not qualify as a vegetable.

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.)

Pffle to your friends, Tep. Corn and carrots are totally vegetable. They're not greens, and they contain more carbs/starches than, say, kale, but they're still vegetables, and better for you than potato chips.

(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.)

And this is a major part of my issue with these sorts of classifications. Any definition of "vegetable" that's anything other than "food that grows as a plant" will, by necessity, be at least somewhat arbitrary.

Corn is a vegetable, fuck that noise. Corn, potatoes, carrots, all vegetables. What else would they be?

Chocolate is a vegetable.

Pffle to your friends, Tep. Corn and carrots are totally vegetable. They're not greens, and they contain more carbs/starches than, say, kale, but they're still vegetables, and better for you than potato chips.

Awww yeah, back to Corn Nuts!

I know green veggies are highly promoted, and since edamame is green and comes out of a pod, I thought it might be considered a veggie. But then -- definitely not a steak, but protein-y; certainly not broccoli, but veggie-like. Hence my confusion.

I should embrace its multitudes, but I want my food categories to be simple. Corn Nuts, chocolate, wine.