# Produce (fruits & veggies) question

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 29, 2021, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/produce-fruits-veggies-question/956863 "2021-12-29T17:21:02Z")\
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> [@Dewey\_Finn](#):
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> Another possibility, edible seaweed, though that’s algae (and also not sold in the produce section where I live).

My store actually has a display of nori-based snack chips in the produce aisle.

Although nori isn’t fruit nor vegetable.

> [@Chronos](#):
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> I have, on occasion, seen dandelion greens in the grocery store (though usually only either in the hippie co-op grocery store, or special ordered).

The ones in the grocery store sure do look different than the ones I’ve gathered from the wild myself. I suspect people who grow them for profit are utilizing a different species than what I’ve found in my backyard. I’m also amused that our supplier not only has “dandelion” in English but also have the French “pissenlit” (piss-the-bed) rather than “dent de lion”

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**Post date:** [January 5, 2022, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/produce-fruits-veggies-question/956863/62 "2022-01-05T02:03:54Z")

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> [@Broomstick](#):
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> Although nori isn’t fruit nor vegetable.

A mentioned, nori is algae, and algae is sometimes classed as plant because it’s photosynthetic, usually chlorophyll-based. But the traditional uses of food algae are not very vegetables-like. So probably not in the produce aisle.

But sometimes it’s classed as a protist, like a lot of monocellular life forms. 🤷‍♂️

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