What kind of food is a peanut?

Answer 1

A peanut is a seed, not a fruit.

Actually a peanut is a legume which is the following: A legume is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or a fruit of these plants. A legume fruit is a simple dry fruit which develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides. A common name for this type of fruit is a "pod", although pod is also applied to a few other fruit types. Well-known legumes include alfalfa, clover, peas, beans, lentils, lupins and peanuts. A peanut is not a nut in the botanical sense; a peanut is an indehiscent legume, that is, one whose pod does not split open on its own.

Answer 2

A peanut is a seed. A peanut is also actually a legume. A legume is a dried fruit which develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces on two sides.Well-known legumes include alfalfa,clover,peas,beans,lentils,lupins and peanuts.

Carpel:One of the structural units of a pistil,representing a modified,ovule-bearing leaf

Dehisces:To open at definite places,discharging seeds,pollen or other contents,as the ripe capsules or pods of some plants

Answer 3

The peanut actually is both a bean and a fruit, although it grows underground.

First, because beans are the seeds of legume plants, technically all beans are also fruits, i.e., the reproductive parts of plants, as opposed to leaves, stems or root parts.

The peanut plant is a species of legume. As the bean or seed pod develops, it buries itself beneath the ground to mature, so that peanuts are harvested by digging them up from underground.

Answer 4

The peanut is not a fruit since you can't eat the shell. It does belong to the bean family, but is is considered a nut since the seed is edible, and that's the only portion of the plant that we tend to eat.

Answer 5

A peanut is neither a fruit or a veg. It is a nut. Hence the name PeaNUT. XD

Answer 6

Peanut are indeed vegetables. They aren't fruit, but I'm quite sure they are seeds...

Answer 7

Yes.

Answer 8

YES!!