• @odium
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    1414 days ago

    Peanuts aren’t a nut? I feel deeply betrayed.

    • @[email protected]
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      1114 days ago

      not in a biological sense no. peanuts and almonds are legumes.

      Basically there is a difference between the biological and the culinary definition for some foods. For instance a common example is that bananas are berries, and neither strawberries nor raspberries are berries biologically, However the culinary definition would treat them as the oppisite. same idea with Tomatoes (biologically a fruit, culinarily a vegetable)