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Culinarily speaking, it would depend on the species of legume and your own personal preferences. If you think of a particular legume as sweet and use it as you would other culinary fruit, then you would call it a fruit; if you use it in a savory vegetable dish, you would call it a vegetable. Botanically speaking, they are either plants in the family Fabaceae or the fruits of these plants (like peanuts, soybeans, lentils, etc.). So yes, they are technically a fruit.


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The fruit of the peanut plant is the "shell" of the peanut. It is a simple, dry fruit. The peanut is considered a legume, but a legume is a type of simple fruit. The peanut itself, or the delicious part that we eat, is actually the seed of the peanut plant. So, botanically speaking, the peanut shell is the fruit and the peanut itself is the seed.


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Culinarily speaking, it would depend on the species of legume and your own personal preferences. If you think of a particular legume as sweet and use it as you would other culinary fruit, then you would call it a fruit; if you use it in a savory vegetable dish, you would call it a vegetable. Botanically speaking, they are either plants in the family Fabaceae or the fruits of these plants (like peanuts, soybeans, lentils, etc.). So yes, they are technically a fruit.


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