Is Bean Pod a Fruit

Beans. Just like peas, beans are a member of the legume family — they’re seeds that come in pods, and that makes them fruit.

What type of fruit is a bean pod?

Legumes are family of plants and they all have the same type of fruit — a bean, actually, that is technically called a legume. Examples: snow peas, string beans or sugar snap peas. All fruits (of the legume variety).

Is a bean pod a dry fruit?

Surely beans don’t count as fruit? … In fact, all legumes are fruit. Toby Adams, director of the Edible Academy at the New York Botanical Garden calls the green bean a ‘dry fruit’, which means that when it’s fully developed, the pod dries out and cracks open to reveal the mature seed.