Is green beans fruit or vegetable?

Here's why:

* Botanically speaking, they are the seeds of the green bean plant, which is a legume.

* Culinarily, we eat green beans for their pods, which are the part of the plant that holds the seeds.

* Fruits are the mature ovaries of flowering plants that contain seeds. Green beans are technically the seeds themselves, but they're eaten along with the pods.

So, while green beans technically contain seeds and might be considered a fruit from a purely botanical standpoint, they're generally considered a vegetable because of how we use them in cooking.