Corn is both a fruit and a grain, botanically speaking. But there's a slightly weirder reason that we also consider it a vegetable.

In a dietary sense, no—corn is not a fruit. But in a botanical sense, corn kernels are technically fruit (just as a pumpkin is technically a berry).

And is corn a grain, fruit, or vegetable? That's where the confusion lies, really. Corn kind of has multiple identities—hence why it gets booted out of many of today's trendy diets.

Want a brain teaser? Have you ever stopped to think about food classification? Is it accurate? Consider this: Should tomatoes ...

Corn-flavored liquids, like "corn milk," are made via an infusion. The resulting liquid is then used in lieu of regular milk or buttermilk in recipes for cupcakes, fruit buckles, pancakes ...

We all know the is-a-tomato-a-fruit debate (correct answer: yes, but you still shouldn't put it in a fruit salad). Now we'd like to bring you a whole new botanical question you never knew you had: Is ...