What is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable?

Answer 1

A fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant.

While a vegie is all parts of herbaceous plants eaten as food by humans, whole or in part. Vegetable is a culinary term. Its definition has no scientific value and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective.

If you are speaking in a botanical, scientific context, then pumpkin, tomato, capsicum, cucumber, tomato and squash are FRUITS because they all have seeds. If you are speaking in culinary terms, they can all be properly called VEGETABLES.

Case solved, right? Not quite. The United States Supreme Court entered into this fascinating debate and gave a legal verdict on whether a tomato should be classified as a vegetable or a fruit. They decided unanimously, in Nix versus Hedden, 1883, that a tomato is a vegetable, even though it is a botanical fruit.

Answer 2

Every fruit carries a seed, so that you can eat the fruit and still plant the seed afterwards to create more of the same fruit. from the plant.

A Vegetable grows from the ground rather than a plant, and once it is eaten there is no seed to plant, basically the vegetable is the seed.

The rule of whether they are grown from the ground or a plant is only a general rule, and there are exceptions, however the main difference is the fact of the seeds, also a strawberry is the only fruit with its seeds on the outside.

Answer 3

A fruit is actually the sweet, ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant. A vegetable, in contrast, is an herbaceous plant cultivated for an edible part (seeds, roots, stems, leaves, bulbs, tubers, or non sweet fruits). Tomatoes, cucumbers, squashes and Courgettes ( zucchini), avocados ,
green, red, and yellow peppers, peapods, pumpkins are usually all thought of as vegetables but are actually all fruits.

I have noticed that there are a few who have answered that vegetables grow below ground, whilst this is true of root vegetables, many, many vegetables do not, e.g. brussels sprouts, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, collards, pak choi, broccoli to name a few.

Answer 4

a fruit has seeds and comes from the part of the flower that gets pollinated and swells to produce the fruit along w the seeds. my bf n i were thinking of this the other day n started listing vegetables n most were really fruit. most ppl consider sweet things like apples, oranges etc to b fruit, while they consider a cucumber or bell pepper a vegetable, but they r really fruit

Answer 5

Fruit grows above ground while vegetables grows from the ground. Furthermore Fruit has high sugar calori while vegetable has high salt calori

Answer 6

Vegetables grow under ground but fruits grow above...

Answer 7

fruit grows on trees grapes a vine and vegetables grow under ground from seeds .

Answer 8

Fruit usually fleshy, and vegetable leafy

Answer 9

fruit grows on trees
vegetables below ground

and yes the tomato is a fruit

Answer 10

the difference is...Most fruits are yummy...Most vegetables taste like poison.