Is A Bean A Fruit Or A Vegetable?

They are a legume, so they don't fall under either fruit or vegetable. They go into the meat and poultry category on the pyramid. For more on this, you can go to www.wikipedia.org, and type in food guide pyramid. Hope this helps, good luck.

A fruit

I looked up the food chart. I see it depends on the type of bean you are looking for. Some are in the meat category and some in the vegetable. When in doubt, search it out.

Neither. Its considered a "legume"

It is a legume

Fruit

Fruit

Actually a bean is a fruit   becaues it is   a seed.

It is a legume, and you can compare it to a vegetable.

Copied and pasted from within mypyramid.gov website:

All foods made from meat, poultry, fish, dry beans or peas, eggs, nuts, and seeds are considered part of this (the meat and beans) group. Dry beans and peas are part of this group as well as the vegetable group.

Beans are part of the meat category.

Vegetable