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AfterAardvark3085 t1_ixe7hvd wrote

Reply to comment by grumblyoldman in It covers all the basic food groups. by gailythunder19

I mean... if the food group doesn't exist anymore, then the contents are likely to be moved to another group instead. So if dairy products are moved to the grain food group, then they would be both dairy products and grains.

Kinda like how a tomato is both a fruit and a plant.

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grumblyoldman t1_ixecd4f wrote

Sigh.

"Dairy" has a specific meaning outside of the food groups, as does "grain." Those meanings do not shift just because someone decided to reorganize the food groups. Dairy goes in the "Protein" bucket with the new order, because dairy does have protein in it.

Also, all fruits are plants. That's not analogous to the dairy vs grain question, it would be more comparable to a "dairy vs food" debate (in which case the answer is fairly clear.)

The debate about tomatoes is whether they are a fruit or a vegetable. And the answer is that they are a fruit biologically, but they get used culinarily as a vegetable.

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