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Corn is a grain, not a fruit or a vegetable.

Well, fortunately, corn is technically (botanically) a fruit. A dry fruit consisting of one fused seed.

I used to think the "tomato: fruit of vegetable?" question was the big amusing food debate, but now I found this: http://empirezone.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/06/11/corn-vegetabl...

Well, there is the botanical pov and the culinary pov. From a culinary pov, corn is mostly a veg. but there are exceptions like the grain (dry fruit) for popcorn.

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