If you make your own popcorn....

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By putting it in a saucepan with a little oil, lid on and let the magic happen ......

Is the final result - popcorn - classed as a vegetable?

Corn is a grain isn't it?

Are grain's classed as veg?

Ahhh

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Yes of course , its a grain

I would not count it as one of your five a day. Probably would count it as one of ten a day.

If you add celery salt or cayenne pepper to it, then does it become one of your five a day?

Any edible plant or part of a plant is considered a vegetable.

Not for the purposes of government run 5/7/ a day though teardrop

I wouldn't class it as a veg, sorry! Wine as fruit on the other hand...

Probably not but fuck it, I'd count it. Unless you cover it in syrup or sugar. In which case it may be one of those 100 cal snack things.

Stick some green food colouring in. Must be a veg then?

Cover it with chocolate and then it counts as 2..

Only if your chocolate has 70% cocoa solids Basecamp

It's a grain. Still healthy though.

Swwetcorn is a vegetable but relatively high in starchy carbs /sugar and is used to make corn starch

SIL is Colombian and told me that they mix popcorn with crisps. That's two of your five a day!

Also, sure you use butter as well as oil? Butter is essential in popcorn!

Make it in the microwave and you won;t have the added oil/butter. (Not the prepacked mcrowave stuff - buy a bag of crom kernels and put them in a glass bowl wiith a lid and zap til they pop.)

Butter, oil, salt, yum and fun.

Sweetcorn/corn on the cob counts as one of your 5 a day doesn't it?
Same thing! Do Doritos count too?

I pop mine with a bit of coconut oil.

Healthy(ish) Toppings I can recommend
-nutritional yeast (cheesy flavour)

• agave nectar ( turn heat off, drizzle a little in, close pan and shoogle, pour into bowl WASH PAN IMMEDIATELY)
• garlic powder
• any kind of flavoured salt