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Is Coffee a Vegetable or Fruit? Unpacking the Botanical Truth

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The average coffee tree produces a half to two kilograms of processed beans annually. These so-called “beans” are not beans at all, but the seeds of a small fruit called a coffee cherry. So, is coffee a vegetable or fruit? From a botanical perspective, the answer is definitively fruit, as the familiar coffee bean is the seed from a ripened berry.