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A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry [1] – produced by several kinds of large treelike herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.In some countries, cooking bananas are called plantains, distinguishing them from dessert bananas.
In botany, a berry is a fleshy fruit without a stone (pit) produced from a single flower containing one ovary. Berries so defined include grapes, currants, and tomatoes, as well as cucumbers, eggplants (aubergines), persimmons and bananas, but exclude certain fruits that meet the culinary definition of berries, such as strawberries and raspberries.
In Britain, soft fruit is a horticultural term for such fruits. [3] [4] [5] The common usage of the term "berry" is different from the scientific or botanical definition of a berry, which refers to a fleshy fruit produced from the ovary of a single flower where the outer layer of the ovary wall develops into an edible fleshy portion .
#48 Bananas Are Berries, But Strawberries Aren't In botanical terms, a berry is a fruit produced from the ovary of a single flower with seeds embedded in the flesh. By this definition, bananas ...
Starting with a shocker, okra, the Southern fried staple, is actually a fruit! A fruit is the mature ovary of a flower, and in the case of okra, we eat the seed pod that forms from the flower's ovary.
Bananas are a naturally sweet tropical fruit that goes well with everything from smoothies to oatmeal to desserts. However, their inherent sweetness comes from natural sugar, also known as carbs.
The botanical term true berry includes grapes, currants, cucumbers, eggplants (aubergines), tomatoes, chili peppers, and bananas, but excludes certain fruits that are called "-berry" by culinary custom or by common usage of the term – such as strawberries and raspberries. Berries may be formed from one or more carpels (i.e., from the simple ...
Merriam-Webster defines "fruit" as "the usually edible reproductive body of a seed plant." Most often, these seed plants are sweet and enjoyed as dessert (think berries and melons), but some ...