Coffee beans are seeds inside a fleshy fruit.

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Seeds

Coffee beans are seeds inside a fleshy fruit.

Coffee beans are seeds harvested from Coffea fruits. Their familiar brown color appears during roasting, well after growers have picked and processed the fleshy fruit around them.

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Bananas are berries. Strawberries are not.

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Peanuts are not nuts. They are legumes, like peas and beans.

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