Is corn a vegetable or a grain?

[cave76]

Just wondering what others think.

It's a strange vegetable/grain. (O.K. I have too much time on my hands!)

 

[FrankZ]

How about a fruit?

 

[GotGarlic]

It's a seed, a grain and a starchy vegetable.

http://www.gardenguides.com/131192-anatomy-corn-seed.html

 

[FrankZ]

Because it is a seed in pulp I do believe it is technically (from a botanical point of view) a fruit.

Fruit or vegetable — Do you know the difference? - MayoClinic.com

 

[Andy M.]

It can be both. If it carries the seeds for plant reproduction, it's a fruit.

 

[GotGarlic]

Bottom line: It's complicated

 

[Mad Cook]

How about a fruit?

Definitely not a fruit.

(One half of my brayne knows that a tomato is a fruit and rhubarb is a vegetable but the other half of my brayne won't accept it.)

 

[Mad Cook]

Just wondering what others think.

It's a strange vegetable/grain. (O.K. I have too much time on my hands!)

It's a veg. The fact that you can make a form of flour from it is irrelevant - you can buy potato flour but that doesn't make a potato a grain.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

It's only a vegetable if I haven't had my 5 for the day, otherwise it's a fruit or a grain. Depending how I need to count it.

Helpful, huh? LOL!

 

[Andy M.]

There are botanical definitions and culinary definitions. Botanically speaking there are no vegetables.

So a tomato is a fruit (botanically) but a culinary vegetable.

I think corn is a botanical fruit, a culinary vegetable if eaten fresh and a grain if dried and ground into a meal or flour. Anatomically, it's an ear.

 

[cave76]

My head is spinning! So, what is hominy? It was a vegetable, then dried and became a grain, then hydrated and became a vegetable again?

Reincarnation? Or cross-dressing.

 

[PrincessFiona60]

My head is spinning! So, what is hominy? It was a vegetable, then dried and became a grain, then hydrated and became a vegetable again?

Reincarnation? Or cross-dressing.

No, it became masa from Heaven...

 

[cave76]

No, it became masa from Heaven...

 

[CWS4322]

Hominy is a type of food made from corn kernels.

What is Hominy? - Hominy: Definition