What's the difference between a fruit and a vegetable?

Answer 1

Fruits have seeds inside, eg, apple, tomato, avocado etc.

Answer 2

Fruit is what we can eat on plants with flowers. That's what contain the seeds and come after the flower.
A vegetable is the part of the plant which can be eat. It could be seed, flower, tubercular, leaf, germ...

So all fruits are vegetables, but the vegetables are not necessarily fruits.

Tomato is a vegetable and a fruit.
Spinach is only a vegetable.

Answer 3

that's not true, coz tomatos grow from vines, strawberries from ground, as do a number of fruit ..... I think it has something to do with seeds or pips .... veg doesn't have them or something, which is why a tomato is a fruit. But I just use common sense, if I'm making vegetable soup, I'll put in a tomato, if I'm making a fruit salad I won't, so tomato is a vegetable!

Answer 4

The difference between a fruit and vegetable depends largely on your perspective. From a botanical perspective, a fruit is the mature ovary of a plant, such as an apple, melon, cucumber, or tomato. From the common, every day "grocery store perspective," we tend to use the word fruit with respect to fruits eaten fresh as desserts - apples, peaches, cherries, etc. - and not to items cooked or used in salads. So, tomatoes tend to be lumped in with vegetables because of the way they are used (cooked and in salads), but botanists will call them fruits because they develop from the reproductive structures of plants. The California legislature once passed a law declaring tomatoes a vegetable in order to impose a tariff on Mexican imports!


Vegetable - the edible product of a herbaceous plant-that is, a plant
with a soft stem, as distinguished from the edible nuts and fruits
produced by plants with woody stems such as shrubs and trees.
Vegetables can be grouped according to the edible part of each plant:
leaves (lettuce), stalks (celery), roots (carrot), tubers (potato),
bulbs (onion), and flowers (broccoli). In addition, fruits such as the
tomato and seeds such as the pea are commonly considered vegetables.

Answer 5

Fruit is a term sometimes given to gay men, vegetable is a term for some one brain damaged and in a wheel chair!

Answer 6

Botanically speaking, there is no difference... The plants grow, thy have flowers, then fruits... That's what they're called... But we made the difference appear - we made them divide in sweet (the fruits) and savory (the vegetables).

Answer 7

A fruit is someone that is a bit mad and a vegetable is someone that cannot think or do..

Answer 8

vegetables grow from the ground and fruit grows from trees

Answer 9

Veg grows on the ground and fruits from the trees generally.

Answer 10

fruit has seeds inside the flesh. vegetables do not

Answer 11

vegetables grow from the ground and fruit grows from trees

fruits are also sweeter and juicier then vegetables