How to classify coffee or chocolate into a food group

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comes from a bean which grows on a plant. Legume, vegetable?

I know the beans are either roasted and the oils express the flavor or the beans are ground into a paste, ingredients added or removed but the constituent ingredient remains the same, a bean.

If you want to classify coffee as a bean, you may as well classify wine as fruit, beer as grain, and tea as an herb. I suppose you could classify soda as carbon dioxide. But I'll stick with beverage for all of the above. This reclassifying stuff, such as classifying ketchup as a vegetable when it's really no longer a vegetable, is imo rather ridiculous.

coffee is the deconcentrated oil of the seed of the coffee plant, and chocolate is cocoa oil, sugar and some other stuff, both are the "extra" group.

Coffee belongs to the Caffeine food group. Chocolate is a food group!

Lattes and coffee with half and half are dairy. At least how I drink them.

coffee bean are roasted seeds (two white beans in each berry) from the berries of the coffee shrub (the seeds are removed from the berries and that is what is roasted).. otherwise known as liquid amphetamine, the devils brew or simply "power" by the Arabs who obtained it from its native Ethiopia a thousand years ago. Coffee can be good for you in moderation (even science is now agreeing with this, they have even found that coffee helps to prevent alzheimers).

Chocolate comes from the cacao tree (a tropical plant), the tree grows fruit pods that contain white beans which are removed from the pod, fermented, dried and then roasted then chopped up and ground into an oily paste often called liquor, blah blah blah... Up until the late 1800s in Mexico the cocoa beans were so valued they were used as standard currency .. who says money doesn't grow on trees!?! Chocolate (the real stuff) is also very good for you, its rich in phenols that counter artery clogging plaque and lowers blood pressure, it also treats the chest pain of angina pectoris, historically it has been used to treat fevers, coughs and complaints associated with pregnancies and childbirth.. I have also heard that it can help with depression as it effects serotonin levels in the brain..

On another note if you like both chocolate and coffee here is an awesome link

http://www.equalexchange.coop/a-guide-t ... ee-pairing

Someone showed me a PowerPoint thing which proved that chocolate was good for you and it was a vegetable but, unfortunately, I don't have a copy

Coffee appears in a grocery store in the coffee aisle (which is near the tea aisle). Variations of coffee such as soft drinks like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and so on appear in the soft drink aisle. Then there are energy drinks (often containing caffeine) in the energy drink aisle.

Caffeine (often 100 mg - caffeine) appears in the same grocery store in the drug store section and is sold in a variety of FDA approved products as an alertness aid. Examples are: Tirend, NoDoz, Awake, Keep Awake, Vivarin, and so on.

http://www.rsna.org/rsna/media/pr2005/Coffee.cfm (Short-term memory)
http://coffeescience.org/alert (Mental alertness)

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Chocolate appears in a grocery store as a candy or food or an ingredient used to make a chocolate cake. Chocolate is used to flavor a wide variety of nutritional drink supplements like Ensure, etc.

That's my understanding.

We can get together and document all the health benefits of coffee and chocolate, and send the documents to all the governments, around the world.

Plant.

I know everyone calls coffee a bean, but it's really a seed with drug like affects. I don't know where it would be placed.