Is basil considered a vegetable, from a nutritional standpoint?!

Question: Is basil considered a vegetable, from a nutritional standpoint?

I've been trying to research this on google. One website answered that no, basil is not a vegetable, but an herb. That's only a culinary definition, though. I found another article about how to incorporate vegetables to your diet, in which a nutritionist suggested making spinach pesto instead of traditional pesto. Spinach and basil are both green leaves, though - What makes one a vegetable and the other not a vegetable?

Answers:

Pesto is one of healthiest of all possible food items.

Basil is a herb which is a special category of vegetable.

Vegetables encompass herbs, they are not exclusionary groups.

Pesto Recipes

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Spinach and Basil are both very good for you.

Try both, try all ways of using them.

Also good:

Oatmeal
Barley
Turnip greens

These are food often left out of USA diets
thus our bleak fitness situation

YOU NEED SOME GREENS

Chopped parsley, green onions, mustard greens
are some which I often use.

Spinch is a leafy green veggies.

Basil is an herb. Look up the defintion of a veggie and the definition of an herb.

Basil is considered an "herb." In it's ground form, it is considered a spice.

Basil is a dried herb, there is no nutritional value. Spinach is a green and leafy- vegetable.

It's a herb.Herbs are used to flavour dishes,spinach doesn't do that.

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