Produce (fruits & veggies) question

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

Although nori isn’t fruit nor vegetable.

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”

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. :man_shrugging: