Is it a Fruit or a Vegetable? | Fruits vs Veggies

Learn why a pumpkin is a fruit and a strawberry is not a berry. Then impress your friends with your new knowledge.
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Tomato Court Decision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden
What’s a Berry?: https://www.livescience.com/57477-why-are-bananas-considered-berries.html
Fruits vs Veggies: https://www.diffen.com/difference/Fruit_vs_Vegetable

To understand how fruits and veggies are classified we need to cover some very basic plant anatomy.

Nearly all plants consist of a root,
a stem,
and some type of leaf.
Some plants also produce flowers.

Got it?

Fruits and vegetables are classified based on what part of a plant they come from.

Fruits form from the flower of a plant (usually the ovaries) and contain seeds.

Vegetables are essentially any other edible part of the plant. These could be roots, stems, or leaves.

Let’s look at some examples to illustrate the point.

Apples are a well known fruit, the apple tree blossoms or flowers, and then the apples grow from those blossoms. Additionally, apples contain seeds.

How about potatoes? Obviously a vegetable. They are the “root” of the potato plant.

Celery, is a vegetable, though it’s edibleness is arguable. It is the stalk of the celery plant.

As mentioned earlier, pumpkins are a fruit, along with all varieties of squash. They grow from the flower of the plant and also contain seeds.

Carrots, broccoli, lettuce, and rhubarb are all veggies.

Oranges, peaches, and bananas are all fruit, but so are corn, pea pods, peppers, avocados, olives, and cucumbers. They all grow from the flower and contain seeds.

And if that’s not enough, there is even more controversy surrounding fruits.

Strawberries and raspberries, are not berries. But guess what are, watermelon, bananas, kiwis, and eggplants to name a few.

To be a true berry (according to science) the fruit must develop from just one flower that has one ovary, and strawberries and raspberries violate this.

I’ll link some articles below that go into more depth on these topics, because it’s pretty fascinating.

I want to add a little note here about mushrooms. They are not a fruit or a vegetable, they are a fungus. People eat fungus.

Now onto the infamous tomato. What do you think, a fruit, a vegetable? Botanically speaking, as we have been, it is a fruit. However, there was a court ruling in the late 1800s that deemed tomatoes a vegetable for customs regulations and cooking purposes.

So now you understand the controversy.

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