What makes lettuce categorized as a vegetable instead of a fruit?

Question

What makes lettuce categorized as a vegetable instead of a fruit?

Answer 1

fruits are the product of a flowering plant to produce seeds. some plants do not have fruit, but only seeds. we only eat the leaves of lettuce, so it is classified as a vegetable. there are different parts of plants that can be classified differently though. for example, the leaves of a plant may be able to be eaten as well as the fruit, roots, seeds, or stalk produced by the plant.

Answer 2

it does not taste like a fruit

Answer 3

To be a fruit, we have to eat the reproductive organs of that particular plant. Leaves are obviously not the reproductive organ in the lettuce plant, so we categorize lettuce as a vegetable.

However, oranges ARE a fruit because the thing that is now the orange used to be the ovary which is now fertilized and has seeds.

Answer 4

The answerer above me is kinda right.

We dont eat the reproductive organs: in plants, these are the stamens in flowers.

What classifies it as a fruit is that it contains the seed. Eg a plum contains the stone which you plant and grows to a plum tree.

You can't plant a lettuce and get a lettuce, lettuce is just leaf. So its a veggie.