Is popcorn a vegetable? cuz corn is?!


Question:

Is popcorn a vegetable? cuz corn is?


Answers:
yes

Yep. A starchy one.

Technically it is, but when you change the structure of it, it become something different.

Not really...

It undergoes a bunch of changes. The actual composition of the kernel, the stuff that becomes the white, fluffy stuff that is popcorn, changes. The small amount of water in it starts to heat up and, in about one-one thousandth of a second, expands 1700 times its size, producing the "pop" and the blossom, the white stuff. So, basically it undergoes a chemical change, and is no longer "corn".

No it is not, you are eating the kernel from corn which is a vegetable but popcorn has almost no nutritional value. If we are talking technically then I guess you could consider it a vegetable but if you went to a nutritionist and they asked you what vegetables you have had today and you said "popcorn" they would laugh at you.

veg・e・ta・ble
NOUN:
1: A plant cultivated for an edible part, such as the root of the beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
2: The edible part of such a plant.

No I think it falls in the nut catagory

nut
NOUN:
1: An indehiscent, hard-shelled, one-loculated, one-seeded fruit, such as an acorn or hazelnut.
2: A seed borne within a fruit having a hard shell, as in the peanut, almond, or walnut.
3: The kernel of any of these.

OH my Missleading isn't it

fruit
NOUN:
pl. fruit or fruits
1: The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms.
2:An edible, usually sweet and fleshy form of such a structure.

corn 1
NOUN:
1: Any of numerous cultivated forms of a widely grown, usually tall annual cereal grass (Zea mays) bearing grains or kernels on large ears.
2: The grains or kernels of this plant, used as food for humans and livestock or for the extraction of an edible oil or starch. Also called Indian corn , maize .
3: An ear of this plant.
4: Chiefly British Any of various cereal plants or grains, especially the principal crop cultivated in a particular region, such as wheat in England or oats in Scotland.

5: A single grain of a cereal plant.
6: A seed or fruit of various other plants, such as a peppercorn.

So now what
we are all wrong




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