How to distinguish between fruit and vegetable?

Answer 1

With fruits, you normally don't eat the seeds which are inside the flesh , such as oranges, peaches, and apples.
With Vegetables, they are the seed or meat of the product, such as potatoes, peas, mushrooms

Answer 2

Here is a dictionary definition of a vegetable:
The edible part of a plant, such as the root of the beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.

And a dictionary definition of a fruit:
The ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds and occurring in a wide variety of forms. (The definition makes fruit not sound so good huh?)

A tomato is an edible part of a plant. It is also a ripened ovary which contains seeds. Therefore it is a fruit and a vegetable.

Answer 3

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!

Answer 4

Generally fruits grow on trees or bushes they contain seeds.

Vegetables grow both in and on the ground they do not contain seeds as we think of them, however beans and peas are classed as veg although they have the seeds in the pods that we eat.

Another example can be seen with tomatoes, eaten as a salad vegetable it is strictly a fruit, but not too good with ice cream.

Therefore use the ice cream theory to decide for yourself, eat it with ice cream , fruit. Simple init.

Answer 5

Generally, fruit grows on trees. bushes or vines. Vegetables usually grow directly out of the ground. I may not quite have worded that correctly, but you get the idea - think of pears, apples, grapes; and then think of corn, potatos, lettuce, pumpkin..

There may also be something about the seeds in fruits.

Hmm.... maybe I should have just left this question alone until I got my mental block cleared up....

Answer 6

A fruit is generally one that encompasses the ovary of the plant and contains seeds. Any other part of the plant, leaves, stem, root etc. is a vegetable

Answer 7

all fruits have seeds and vegetables don't. but the tomato falls in the fruit catagorie for it's seeds inside. most veggies are crispy and not juicy unlike fruits

Answer 8

fruits are awesome and veggies are crap!jj I love veggies too but it sounded really cool

Answer 9

fruits are generally juicy and veggies are hard....wat u gotta cook - theyr veggies n those u dont - theyr fruits....


Simple!!

Answer 10

one is a fruit one's a vegi!