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Fruit or Vegetable?

Wheat

Wheat
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Is Wheat a Fruit or Vegetable?
Botanically, this is...
A Caryopsis! (A type of fruit)
Culinarily, this is...

Wheat is the grain in Western civilization. It is used so much as a grain, that it is just the presumed default, and the grain used is only noted when it’s not wheat. You hear of “corn bread” and “rye bread,” but wheat bread is just “bread.” Needless to say, this is a grain.