Fruits vs. Vegetables: The Deathmatch

1. Reechard
   December 3rd, 2008 at 10:31 pm

   100 percent. Although I probably have the t.v. show QI to thank for it. They taught me that calling a banana a fruit isn’t entirely correct! It’s more of a berry because banana trees aren’t trees at all, they’re plants.

2. eni
   December 3rd, 2008 at 10:47 pm

   I only got two wrong- corn and peanuts. The rest were all fairly obvious, I thought.

3. seekshelter
   December 3rd, 2008 at 11:18 pm

   i think kumquats could take all of you suckers…

4. Johnny Cat
   December 3rd, 2008 at 11:58 pm

   would kumquats be a wet fruit, then?
   Perhaps a simple wet fruit.

5. Edward
   December 4th, 2008 at 5:58 am

   Painting with a broad brush: If it has seeds, it is a fruit. (And, yes, seedless grapes and oranges are still fruits.)

6. Seventh
   December 4th, 2008 at 6:04 am

   9/10 - i missed the ‘dry fruit / grain’
   got the two legumes though.

   And Reechard: i agree the banana plant is not a tree, it’s acutally a herbacious plant. but are trees not plants?

7. Ashley
   December 4th, 2008 at 10:34 am

   Reechard, aren’t berries just a type of fruit?

8. Sid Morrison
   December 4th, 2008 at 11:35 am

   10/10. This should be pretty easy to anyone who took high school biology. Actually, the distinction is even easier than that. A gradeschooler could handle it IF the material was covered in what masquerades as “Science” class these days in the (US) government schools.

9. Aimi
   December 4th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

   It’s a Fruit if you eat the flower, the seed, or the covering around the seed.

   It’s a Vegetable if you eat the stalk, the root, or the leaves.

10. violet/riga
    December 4th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

    Gah this annoys me. The terms ‘fruit’ and ‘vegetable’ are used in different contexts, and items can be both, such as the tomato.

11. Patrick from Tennessee
    December 4th, 2008 at 3:35 pm

    10/10 Does being a botanist count as cheating? LOL

12. Reechard
    December 4th, 2008 at 3:55 pm

    Yeah, it’s a foggy area. That’s why I said it’s not ENTIRELY true. Of course it’s a plant. The point was it’s not a fruit in the traditional sense most people think it is. Not something I’d ever correct someone on but kinda neat

13. raina_c
    December 5th, 2008 at 12:22 am

    Failed <- Just kidding…just went by what my teachers taught…if it has seeds it’s a fruit.

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