Are beans a vegetable?

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[QUOTE=sunacres]
Why is this being danced around so? Beans are part of the fruit, or reproductive part of a plant. The non-reproductive parts are vegetables. In some contexts all parts of a plant are considered vegetable (as in animal, vegetable or mineral). But otherwise beans are fruit.
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As I said above, beans (dry beans, to be specific) are seeds. They are found inside the fruit, which is the pod.

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[QUOTE=Yllaria]
And to confuse matters further, some nutrition charts and lists categorize them as Meat, because they can be eaten as a source of protein.
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Can we identify these charts so we can attempt to correct this idiocy?