Is a bean a fruit or a vegetable?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

they are a legume they have no chance of being a fruit so they are very much a legume :~)

AnswerBotanically speaking, they are both, since a "fruit" is simply the result of the maturation of a flower into the plant's seed-containing organ. In the case of beans the fruit is commonly referred to as a "pod".

Answer 3

Lentils are Legumes and the legume is a fruit. However for culinary purposes lentils are treated as vegetables
It is neither, lentils are legumes.

Answer 4

Tofu is bean curd made from soybeans, which are legumes.

Answer 5

A bean is a vegetable.

Answer 6

fruit