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Is peanut a vegetable or a fruit?
Peanuts are also known as groundnuts, dicotyledonous plants, leaf veins are reticulate veins, the seeds have pericarp encapsulation. Historically, it has been called the fruit of immortality, the ground beans, fallen flower ginseng, fallen pine, into the life of the fruit, the beans and figs, the fruit of the ground, the beans of the Tang people. Peanut long in nourishing tonic, help prolong life, so the folk also known as "fruit of longevity", and soybeans, as known as "plant meat", "vegetarian meat". The nutritional value of peanuts is higher than food, comparable to eggs, milk, meat and other animal foods. It contains a lot of protein and fat, especially unsaturated fatty acid content is very high, very suitable for the manufacture of a variety of nutritious food. Now there is a colorful peanuts, also known as colorful peanuts, multicolored peanuts, colorful peanuts.