neb: That Kremelta vegetable shortening contains no vegetable oil, or vegetable products of any kind, it's coconut oil and some soy lecithin emulsifier. Should I complain to KremeltaCorp about their misleading advertising?
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The same category I'd place it in out of "copper, silver, or gold", it's none of those. It's a fruit. And soybean is a legume. Neither are vegetables. Or gold.
Vegetable: a plant or part of a plant used as food, such as a cabbage, potato, turnip, or bean.
A legume refers to any plant from the Fabaceae family that would include its leaves, stems, and pods. A pulse is the edible seed from a legume plant. Pulses include beans, lentils, and peas. For example, a pea pod is a legume, but the pea inside the pod is the pulse.
Unless you're excluding beans as vegetables, legumes are clearly vegetables.
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