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Surprise: Yes, pumpkins are fruit. People assume that pumpkins are vegetables because of their savory taste and how you cook them, but don't be fooled. Flavor is not the deciding factor.
Continuing confusion has led me to rework a quiz I developed a few years ago. The quiz’s goal is to help people understand the optimal number of servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
This is a list of plants that have a culinary role as vegetables. "Vegetable" can be used in several senses, including culinary, botanical and legal. This list includes botanical fruits such as pumpkins, and does not include herbs, spices, cereals and most culinary fruits and culinary nuts. Edible fungi are not included in this list.
The definition of fruit for this list is a culinary fruit, defined as "Any edible and palatable part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or semi-sweet vegetables, some of which may resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were ...
The tomato (US: / t ə m eɪ t oʊ /, UK: / t ə m ɑː t oʊ /), Solanum lycopersicum, is a plant whose fruit is an edible berry that is eaten as a vegetable. The tomato is a member of the nightshade family that includes tobacco, potato, and chili peppers. It originated from and was domesticated in western South America.
That’s why you may be surprised to learn that your favorite fall vegetable isn’t a vegetable at all. It’s actually a fruit. “We often think of fruit as being sweet and vegetables being ...
Vegetables in a market in the Philippines Vegetables for sale in a market in France. Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food.The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds.
The difference between a fruit and a vegetable comes down to the part of the plant we eat. A “fruit” refers to the edible part of the plant that develops from a seed into an ovary (or the ...