Is coffee a fruit or a vegetable?
by 
Beauty Queen
ANSWERS: 17
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I'm not too sure about this but ... I believe coffee is a bean. Hence "Coffee Bean" and beans are vegetables, meaning that coffee would be a vegetable.
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Comes from coffee BEANS, so I'd have to say it's a vegetable.
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It's the seed of a berry, isn't it? So fruit.
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It's a seed of a fruit.
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It's a bean. It's part of the lagoom (spelling?) family.
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Jewels Vern legume - member of the pea family. BTW it used to be called pease, as in "pease porridge hot". People assumed that was a plural and the singular must be pea, and the misspelling stuck.
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It's the seed of a fruit. The "coffee bean" is a misnomer, they are not beans at all.
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It's the seed inside the coffee plant fruit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_bean
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it is a vegetable
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it is a vegetable grows on tree
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Fruit.
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It is a vegetable. Coffee bean.
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It's the seed of the coffee plant. That makes it a fruit. A vegetable would be a part of the plant, like a leaf or a root.
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Neither it's a seed.
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damnit it's a vegetable!
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Its a bean, a seed, that makes it a fruit :-)
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7-5-2017 Coffee is one of the food groups, along with chocolate and pizza.
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It's a beverage consisting of a decoction or infusion of the roasted ground or crushed seeds from a cherry type plant. And botanically speaking a seed is a fruit so coffee is actually a beverage made from a seed that is technically a fruit. But it is NOT considered a serving of fruit. Are we clear as mud now?
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