pizza is a vegetable

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Originally Posted by derpcake [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So today I learned that pizza is qualified as a vegetable in the US.

Supposedly, this is due to the high concentration tomato thing.

As a result, pizza can be sold in schools, since vegetables are healthy.

Is this true?

If so, how retarded are your voters on the average?

Pizza can be a very, very healthy diet. If done right, it can be a perfectly balanced meal in itself.

But no, this is not really what was said. This is a myth. What were determined were the ratios of toppings to make a serving of pizza qualify as a serving of vegetables. The tomato paste/sauce was rightfully a big part of that, since it adds lots of nutrition with minimal calories, salt, etc. that you want to limit.

Originally Posted by Missneye [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

What's funny about this is that the tomato is a fruit, not a vegetable.

There is no biological definition for vegetable that is set in stone. There is only a culinary definition, and it varies by culture and is completely arbitrary. There is no distinction between fruit and vegetable, and the terms are not mutually exclusive.