Why isn't chocolate considered a vegetable if chocolate comes from coco beans and all beans are vegetables
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Hehe! Love it, that's my new excuse for eating so much chocolate! I used to work in a chocolate shop, wish I'd thought of that when I worked there to tell all the customers who used to worry bout chocolate being unhealthy!
oooh, i like the logic :P
Chocolate is synthetic. Most cooking oils are made from vegetables, but they're definitely not veggies either.
Jelly beans aren't vegetables, hot dogs are not hot, and they hopefully don't contain dogs.
Its all the other stuff in it - i.e milk sugar etc.
good idea though! to include it in your 5 portions a day
Chocolate is a vegetable in my book!
It is highly processed. If you just ate the beans, you'd be okay with your argument. Sweet bean paste is also considered a sweet.
because there are other added ingredients (fat, milk, sugar). the cocoa bean in its natural form is a vegetable
For the same reason Tofu (Bean Curd) is not considered a vegetable . they are products or by products of the processing of the original vegetable but not a vegetable them selves.
Nice try, but the beans are processed and have other things added to make chocolate. If you want to eat coco beans (which I wouldn't suggest), then maybe you could consuider it a vegetable.
Beans go into a catagory all its own: legumes. Also, chocolate is processed with other ingredients, sugar, milk [sometimes, thickeners. You could consider a coco bean as a legume, but not chocolate as a legume or vegitable.
.i've tried to reason this with my boyfriend. it's never worked.
because the cocoa beans do not come form a pod, like say peas. And whoever said chocolate is synthetic? Uff.
because its a product of the beans.. just like tomato juice is a product of tomatoes but that definitely ain't a fruit!! shame though, that would be my 5 a day
Actually, beans are considered legumes, not vegetables.
Coco beans are only one ingredient used to make chocolate. Using that logic, strawberry ice cream would be considered a fruit, and carrot cake would be classified as a vegetable.
I was just going to ask this question myself. It's a bean. It is technically a vegetable when in bean form. Owever, milk and sugar are often added,altering its nature from bean to candy.
Because they're not beans. They're the seeds of the cacao tree. The seeds grow in pods, about 50 seeds per pod. They're just called "beans," like the seeds in the berries of the coffee plant are called "beans."
lol. good question. i think it's because no one eats it fresh and raw, right off the cocoa tree. and we don't add it into stir frys and such or cook with fresh cocoa beans.
Good question. It should count towards my 5-a-day!!
I thought it was a food group all by itself.
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