How do you distinguish a fruit from a vegetable?

Question

It can't be seeds... that would make a hot pepper and a cucumber a fruit?

Answer 1

its true though!

Answer 2

The word "vegetable" is a culinary term, not a botanical term. The word "fruit" on the other hand can be a culinary term or a botanical term, and these two usages are quite different.

Botanically speaking, fruits are fleshy reproductive organs of plants, the ripened ovaries containing one or many seeds. Thus, many botanical fruits are not edible at all, and some are actually extremely poisonous. In a culinary sense however, the word "fruit" is only applied to those botanical fruits which are edible, and which are considered to be a sweet or dessert food such as strawberries, peaches, plums, etc.

In contrast to this, a number of edible botanical fruits, including the tomato, the eggplant, and the bell pepper are not considered to be a sweet or dessert food, are not routinely used with sugar, but instead are almost always used as part of a savory dish, and are salted. This is the reason that they are labeled as "vegetables". Thus a plant part may scientifically be referred to as a "fruit", even though it is used in cooking or food preparation as a vegetable.

Answer 3

Yes a cucumber is the fruit of the cucumber plant.  

Biology 101 says that a fruit bears the seed.  A vegetable is a part of the plant.  A berry is a "fruit" which bears the seed on the outside, like a strawberry or blackberry.  Beans are a class of plant called legumes.  They have pods, like peanuts and green beans

So a tomato is indeed a fruit so is a hot pepper. Lettuce is a vegetable as is rhubarb and radish and carrots.

In the US we associate a fruit with a sweet taste but that is just a generalization.

Just a new tidbit for you to fascinate your friends with!

Answer 4

No, it dosen't it's rather it sweet sour, and the seed noty just the seed

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