RSSFruits vs. Vegetables: The Deathmatch
By Stacy in Food & Drink on Dec 3, 2008 at 9:20 pm
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Reechard
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.
eni
I only got two wrong- corn and peanuts. The rest were all fairly obvious, I thought.
Johnny Cat
would kumquats be a wet fruit, then?
Perhaps a simple wet fruit.
Edward
Painting with a broad brush: If it has seeds, it is a fruit. (And, yes, seedless grapes and oranges are still fruits.)
Seventh
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?
Sid Morrison
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.
Aimi
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.
violet/riga
Gah this annoys me. The terms ‘fruit’ and ‘vegetable’ are used in different contexts, and items can be both, such as the tomato.
Reechard
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
raina_c
Failed <- Just kidding…just went by what my teachers taught…if it has seeds it’s a fruit.
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Ashley
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