Is banana a friut or vegetable because all fruits have seeds?

Answer 1

it's a seedless fruit :-)

Answer 2

Actually vegetable and fruit are often misled.
Vegetable is any part of the plant which you consume raw or after cooking. It doesn't have a botanical implication, atleast as far as the physiochemistry of the plant is concerned.
Whereas a fruit is a fertilised ovary(sometimes evenunfertilised), which beares seed for the further propogation of the plant. But in some cases, the seeds are not formed due to a parallel pathway of development called parthenocarpy which is induced by a phytohormone called auxin.
Thats why you have seedless bananas and grapes, but i should say these are genetically altered to be seedless by artifically trigerring this process of parthenocarpy.

And i repeat again, you can spot a fruit on the plant, ie it has botanical implication, whereas you define a vegetable only after it entres your kitchen, ie its quite arbitrary and broad category.

Answer 3

Someone gave me a 'thumbs down', i dont know why except maybe they think i'm lying... i promise you that the following is true... i'm not making it up!!!

i always used to wander where the seeds in a banana are too... until i recently went to Thailand and ate the most tastiest and sweetest bananas EVER! and have a guess.. they had seeds in them!!! THEY REALLY DO
The seeds are black, thin and crunchy and about the width of orange pips, and easy to eat... they grow all the way down the middle of the banana and you get about 5 to 10 in each banana.

i think we have cultivated bananas (bread them) to grow with out seeds so that they are more pleasant to eat. But i wonder how they grow the plants if they dont have seeds to plant??? maybe thats another question! :-)

And fruits do have seeds - always - because that is the definition of a fruit, but not always in the middle of the fruit - a strawberry has them on the outside (little red/white ones).

Answer 4

The banana is a berry. It has one seed (at the end opposite the stem.)

A "vegetable" is a designation by the US government for tax purposes. Apparently, "fruits" and "vegetables" are taxed differently.

A vegetable would be a root, like carrots, a tuber, like potatoes, a stem, like celery, or flower buds, like broccoli.

It's a culinary and tax distinction. Not botanical.

Oh, and fruits always have seeds inside them. For instance, strawberries aren't berries. They're enlarged stems with achenes (the little dry seeds) on the outside. Nuts are seeds with hard shells--they're fruits, but the type of fruit is a nut. Cherries and other stone fruit are drupes. Cucumbers are berries, but pumpkins are pepoes.

Eggplant and tomatoes are berries. Blackberries and raspberries are sets of drupelets (small drupes.) Lettuce is leaves, as are many herbs such as bay leaves (from a bay tree), parsley, sage, thyme, and lemon balm. Their flowers and fruit are separate from the part you eat, though some herbs, like dill, have edible leaves and seeds.

A fig is an inflorescence--the seeds are the fruit, and the "fruit" is the flower that stays in place. Cauliflower (flower--get it?) is an inflorescence--a collection of flower buds.

"Vegetable" is NOT a botanical term.

Answer 5

The banana is a fruit, but just so you know, not all fruits contain seeds. Seed can grow on other parts of a fruiting plant.

Answer 6

First, that the yellow banana is not a fruit (because it has no seeds), and second, that it comes from a tree (the banana tree).

There are close to 1,000 species of banana today. Most of them are inedible - they carry hard pea-sized seeds, and have only a small amount of bad-tasting flesh. The botanists think that about 10,000 years ago, probably in South-East Asia, a random mutation produced a sterile banana with no seeds and lots of flesh that could be eaten uncooked. The internal dark lines and spots inside today's banana are the vestigial remnant of these seeds.

Bananas were taken to India, where Alexander The Great saw them, and where they appear in 2,500-year-old cave paintings. Traders took them from India to East Africa, then overland to West Africa. Portuguese sailors took them to the Canary Islands, from where they got to Haiti by the 15th century. They were imported into North America shortly after European settlement, and became freely available in American fruit markets by the 19th century.

Answer 7

The only vegetable with a "mistaken identity" is the tomato. The tomato and the banana are fruits. But, everything has seeds. Well almost. The green pepper for instance. Fruits and vegetables...who knows?

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Bananas do have seeds, but they're very small. Next time you take a bite out of one, look in the center. There are very small black seeds, that are also not very rigid.

Answer 10

bananas have seeds so it is a fruit

Answer 11

a banana is a fruit