Is banana a fruit or a vegetable? What are the definite characteristics of a fruit? vegetable?

Question

Is banana a fruit or a vegetable? What are the definite characteristics of a fruit? vegetable?

Answer 1

THIS IS FOR ALL SAKES

Fruit is a botanical term. It is anything that is develop from the floral parts of a plant thus, a grass has a fruit; an orchid has a fruit; tomato, eggplant and pepper are fruits. Acacia also bears fruit.

Vegetable is an agricultural term for those plants that are edible to man. Malunggay (Horse Radish) is a vegetable. Onion is a vegetable. Etc.

So the answer is banana is a fruit and in fact it is a berry type of fruit and it can also be a vegetable. Did you get it!!!

Also celeries and lettuce and all of the vegetables have SEEDS!!! because they are all members of Flowering Plants.

Answer 2

I'm pretty sure it's a fruit, even though some definite characteristics of fruits could be seeds and pits, I suppose.

I think more fruits than vegetables have seeds and/or pits.

Answer 3

banana is a fruit... it has seeds.

Answer: “To really figure out if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable, you need to know what makes a fruit a fruit, and a vegetable a vegetable. The big question to ask is, DOES IT HAVE SEEDS?

If the answer is yes, then technically, you have a FRUIT. This, of course, makes your tomato a fruit. It also makes cucumbers, squash, green beans and walnuts all fruits as well. VEGETABLES such as, radishes, celery, carrots, and lettuce do NOT have seeds (that are part of what we eat) and so they are grouped as vegetables.”

By these definitions, a pumpkin is a fruit, botanically speaking. So are squash and zucchini.

Vegetable is a culinary term. Its definition has no scientific value and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. All parts of herbaceous plants eaten as food by humans, whole or in part, are generally considered vegetables. Mushrooms, though belonging to the biological kingdom, fungi, are also commonly considered vegetables…Since ‘vegetable’ is not a botanical term, there is no contradiction in referring to a plant part as a fruit while also being considered a vegetable.