Is Corn a Vegetable, Grain, or Fruit

I think that corn is a grain.
It is surely not a fruit.

if you use the botanists' oh-so-appetizing definition of a fruit as, "the edible plant structure of a mature ovary of a flowering plant," you realize that an average ear of corn is actually 600 to 800 little fruits attached to a woody, inedible core, the cob.

if you use the botanists' oh-so-appetizing definition of a fruit as, "the edible plant structure of a mature ovary of a flowering plant," you realize that an average ear of corn is actually 600 to 800 little fruits attached to a woody, inedible core, the cob.

Hi ServiceU,

Prior to processing, corn is a grain. After it is processed, with its perservatives, the Food and Drug Adminstration has deemed it as a vegetable. However, given reference to its name "sweet corn" it sure taste as sweet as some desserts doesn't it. Thanks for the question.


Faded Rose