What Nuts Are Not Legumes
Peanuts are classifies as legumes not nuts.
What nuts are not legumes. Add nuts or seeds to a smoothie. While real nuts grow on trees peanuts grow in pods that mature. While real nuts grow on trees peanuts grow in pods that mature underground.
Peanuts are legumes not nuts. They split in half like a legume but they are not a legume. The peanut is one of the biggest culprits of this confusion.
The roughly 15-inch 38 centimeters snacks are disqualified from being true nuts because 10 to 25 of them grow inside a single pod according to the New. In the case of peanuts which are legumes walnuts are more of a drupe than a nut. Other types of legumes such as lentils.
It contains two seeds the pod is indehiscent and the seed is not attached to the ovary wall. According to Serious Eats a true nut botanically speaking is a hard-shelled pod that contains both the fruit and seed of the plant where the fruit does not open to release the seed to the world. A drupe is basically a nut with a pulpy fruit around it.
One whose seed we would. Examples of legumes are Pea Chickpeas Lentils Soybeans Peanuts etc. If you want to get technical about it peanuts are actually considered legumes.
Botanically they are a master of disguise. We could go on with the examples but we think you. A nut is not a nut when it is a legume or a drupe.