yeah find a mango salsa recipe and replace the mango with mini marshmallows and you've got yourself a solid contribution to the reader's digest recipe section
But at what point does it go from one to the other. How many seconds of blending or crushes before it's no longer tomato and is now sauce.
There has to be a limit on how much of a process something can go through while still being considered a vegetable, otherwise meat is vegetable.
Checkmate vegans your beef is made of water sun and grass so it's vegan (This is a joke don't ban me)
Vegetable is a culinary term that doesn't follow strict guidelines but is commonly understood
Unlike pineapple, watermelon, banana, strawberry, raspberry, blackberry, prickly pears, cantaloupe, honeydew, and many others.
Or the popular fruits: cinnamon, cork, or leaves
Jarred salsa barely has any nutritional value if the back of the label is to be believed so I'd say no. Like, black beans should have a ton of potassium in them but if you buy black bean and corn salsa it'll have very little potassium so I'd assume any of the other nutrients like vitamin A that aren't required to be on the label are also lacking.
But it tastes good so who cares.
My continued existence proves it is possible to subsist on homemade salsa so I say it counts
It's a mix of vegetables (which have no clear definition according to one funny video and no further personal research) and other stuff.
Is a car a metal? Is a pillow a plant? Is a human a cell?