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Jun 17 2009

Is the Coffee Bean a Fruit or Legume?

Published by Jennifer under Coffee Beans, Featured

Is the coffee bean a fruit or a legume?
Answer: it is a pit inside the coffee fruit.
The coffee bean is not technically a legume, because a legume is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or a fruit of these plants, and the coffee plant is not a member of the Fabaceae family.
The coffee “bean” [...]

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