Comments on: Fruits vs. Vegetables: The Deathmatch

By: raina_c

raina_c — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:22:17 +0000

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

By: Reechard

Reechard — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:55:54 +0000

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

By: Patrick from Tennessee

Patrick from Tennessee — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:35:15 +0000

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

By: violet/riga

violet/riga — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:43:32 +0000

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

By: Aimi

Aimi — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:18:13 +0000

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.

By: Sid Morrison

Sid Morrison — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:35:46 +0000

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.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:34:13 +0000

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

By: Seventh

Seventh — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:04:43 +0000

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?

By: Edward

Edward — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:58:18 +0000

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

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:58:17 +0000

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

By: seekshelter

seekshelter — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:18:22 +0000

i think kumquats could take all of you suckers…

By: eni

eni — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:47:39 +0000

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

By: Reechard

Reechard — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:31:10 +0000

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.