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Re:Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious, but That Isn't the Point by lansing on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @07:16PM (#4482009)
Corn is a grain, not a fruit or a vegetable.
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Re:Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious, but That Isn't the Point by mc32 on Thursday September 06, 2012 @01:48AM (#4482989)
Well, fortunately, corn is technically (botanically) a fruit. A dry fruit consisting of one fused seed.
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Re:Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious, but That Isn't the Point by jamesbritt on Thursday September 06, 2012 @01:13PM (#4485136)
I used to think the "tomato: fruit of vegetable?" question was the big amusing food debate, but now I found this: http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/corn-vegetabl...
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Re:Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious, but That Isn't the Point by mc32 on Thursday September 06, 2012 @06:09PM (#4486539)
Well, there is the botanical pov and the culinary pov. From a culinary pov, corn is mostly a veg. but there are exceptions like the grain (dry fruit) for popcorn.
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