what is the difference between a grain and a vegetable?
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Thanks, reader Clare. Grains are the seeds of grasses. ... A vegetable can be any edible part of a plant that's not a) the seed or b) the ripened ovary. The ripened ovaries of seed-bearing plants are what are known in scientific terms as “fruits”, if you follow me.
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These varieties refer to the length and shape of the grain. Simply speaking, long grain rice will have a longer cylindrical shape, whereas short grain rice will be shorter and wider. ... Medium Grain Rice - When compared to long grain rice, medium grain rice has a shorter, wider kernel.
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Whole corn, like you eat on the cob, is considered a vegetable. The corn kernel itself (where popcorn comes from) is considered a grain. To be more specific, this form of corn is a “whole” grain. To complicate things a little more, many grains including popcorn are considered to be a fruit.
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I've been asked recently by a few people if corn is a whole grain. According to the Whole Grains Council, fresh corn is usually classified as a vegetable and dried corn (including popcorn) as a grain. Corn is a whole grain if the bran, germ, and endosperm are all left intact, just like whole wheat.
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The main structural difference is that oatmeal (typically rolled oats) is whole grain, while oat bran is just the bran of the oat. Finally, because oat bran is creamier (due to the finer texture of the product), it satiates hunger more than oatmeal.
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Grain is the harvested seeds of various grass-related food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley or grain can be a branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant. ... Crops are anything that you grow in a field such as, corn, cotton, soybeans, wheat and just about anything you grow to sell for a living.
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Botanically speaking, a fruit is a seed-bearing structure that develops from the ovary of a flowering plant, whereas vegetables are all other plant parts, such as roots, leaves and stems.
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Vegetables come from many different parts of the plant, including the leaves, roots, tubers, flowers, stems, seeds and shoots. Legumes are the seeds of the plant and are eaten in their immature form as green peas and beans, and the mature form as dried peas, beans, lentils and chickpeas.
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As nouns the difference between grain and granule is that grain is (uncountable) the harvested seeds of various grass food crops eg: wheat, corn, barley or grain can be a branch of a tree; a stalk or stem of a plant while granule is a tiny grain, a small particle.
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The Difference Between Whole Wheat and Whole Grain While whole wheat and whole grain may sound like they are two different things, whole wheat is merely a type of whole grain. As mentioned above, whole grains include the entirety of the grain kernel, including the bran, germ and endosperm.
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Brown rice is a whole grain because it's less processed—the hull is removed, but the bran and the germ remain. White rice, on the other hand, is not a whole grain because its hull, bran, and germ are all removed during processing.
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Potato is also associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. One difference between white rice and potatoes is that the starch in rice can be reduced by draining the water in which it is cooked, but potatoes remain starchy even after cooking.
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Wheat Bran vs Wheat Germ: What's the Difference? ... At a basic level, the bran is the exterior part of the wheat kernel and the germ is the portion inside of the seed that can grow into a new plant. Both of these components are what make whole grains so nutritious.
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A vegetable is the edible portion of a plant. Vegetables are usually grouped according to the portion of the plant that is eaten such as leaves (lettuce), stem (celery), roots (carrot), tubers (potato), bulbs (onion) and flowers (broccoli). ... Then there are seeds such as peas which are also considered vegetables.
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Nuts vs Seeds vs Legumes First off, there is a difference between true nuts and seeds themselves. Technically, nuts are the hard-shelled “fruit” of certain plants. Conversely, seeds are a small edible plant enclosed in a seed coat. Most nuts are seeds, but not all seeds are nuts.
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A grain is the small edible fruit of the plant, usually hard on the outside, harvested from grassy crops. ... A seed is defined as an embryonic plant covered in a 'seed coat'. It is formed from the ripened ovule of plants after fertilization.
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Whole grains are grains that have their entire kernel (bran, endosperm and germ) intact therefore retaining valuable nutrients. Refined grains on the other hand are grains that have been milled and stripped off parts of their kernel therefore lowering their nutritional quality.