how do you tell what is a vegtable and what is a fruit?

Answer 1

Fruit
Fruit is the mature ovary in flowering plants, often restricted, but not limited, to the succulent, edible fruits of woody plants (i.e. apples), melons, and berries. Fertilized ovaries develop and produce seeds. The function of fruit is to protect the seeds and may also play a part in their distribution. Animals eat the fruit and then later "distribute" the seeds with accompanying "fertilizer".

Vegetables
Vegetables are the edible product of herbaceous plants, and are grouped according to the edible part of each plant: leaves (lettuce), stalks (celery), roots (carrot), tubers (potato), bulbs (onion), and flowers (broccoli).

Common Misconceptions
People generally limit only sweet and succulent produce as being fruit and the rest as vegetables. The tomato is actually a fruit.

Answer 2

Vegetables have the seeds on the outside or are considered a root or leafy part of a plant.

Fruits have the seeds on the inside.

Yes, a tomato is a fruit!

Answer 3

According to Wikipedia -
In the culinary sense, a fruit is usually any sweet tasting plant product associated with seed(s), a vegetable is any savoury or less sweet plant product, and a nut any hard, oily, and shelled plant product.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit

Good Luck!

Jen

Answer 4

A fruit has seeds inside it. Many people think that some fruit are veggies eg tomatoes.

Answer 5

Vegetables are members of the Senate. Fruits are members of the House of Representatives. Nuts are people who ask and answer Yahoo questions. Just call me a filbert.

Answer 6

Generally fruits come off of a vine or tree. A vegetable comes out of the ground.

Answer 7

Fruits have the seeds inside, vegetables do not. So tomatoes are actually fruit.

Answer 8

My answer is easy. Democrats are vegtables. Republicans are......... no wait, they are fruits too. Sorry, I don't know.

Answer 9

Well tomatoes are actually fruit even though most people think they are vegetables and then there's carrots, parsnips and beetroot which are root veg, peas and beans which are legumes (veg) and peaches, apples, plums and raspberries which are fruit.

Answer 10

SEEDS = FRUIT. Cucumber, Tomato, Avocado, all fruits.