Corn is not a vegetable, it's a grain.

Bingo - this is key. Fill your plate with veggies and accessorize with meat and grain.

Yes it is, but sweetcorn counts as a veg in the five-a-day tables.

It's still a grain, not a vegetable.

Sweetcorn here is def classified as one of our 5 a day (making it either a fruit or a vegetable)
ETA - soz, Dani already said that.

I admit this does not make it such. Carrot is classified as a fruit due to EU law which specifies only fruit can make marmalade... and Portugal makes carrot marmalade.

Kidney beans are also counted towards five a day even though they are in the beans and pulses category. I think it's because they can provide some of the same vitamins as brightly colooured veg.

What is a pulse? I take it this is not the beating of your heart through your veins...

Peas, beans and lentils are pulses.

Not A Vegetable:

• Corn of any type
• Green Peas
• Kidney beans
• Chick Peas
• Lentils of any type
• Soy beans
• Potatoes of any type
• Winter squash (pumpkin, butternut, etc.)
• V8 (too much sodium)

Ohhhhhh. Thanks for the clarification!

Hey. I just follow the chart of stuff to include in my 5 a day.

I knew the EU was stupid. Would they like to annex Indiana?

I've had great onion marmalade -- does that make an onion a fruit? :eyebrow:

If you're going to exclude fruits you're list is going to be really long...

:p

Mostly they'd end up as 'preserves' rather than 'marmelades'...except for locally made stuff which tends not to take much account of distant directives ;P