Herb or Fruit..................?

Question

Is a banana a fruit or a herb..........................?

Answer 1

Both. A banana (the yellow thing you peel and eat) is undoubtedly a fruit (containing the seeds of the plant: see answer regarding tomatoes), though since commercially grown banana plants are sterile, the seeds are reduced to little specks. However, the banana plant, though it is called a 'banana-tree' in popular usage, is technically regarded as a herbaceous plant (or 'herb'), not a tree, because the stem does not contain true woody tissue.



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Answer 2

Fruit.

Answer 3

According to QI book. Bananas are the berries of the banana plant,which is giant herb

Answer 4

A banana is a fruit.

Answer 5

Are you sure you are not confusing it with plantain? The plantain fruit which looks like a banana and is in the same family is obviously, a fruit. But there is also another kind of plantain (plantago, but commonly called plantain) which is an herb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantago

Answer 6

It's a fruit. Anything that has seeds on the inside is a fruit.

Answer 7

a fruit although you can add it to dishes for the flavor but look at it this way would you eat a herb raw by itself.

Answer 8

the banana is a fruit ...does it really matter? eat and enjoy

Answer 9

bananas are fruits since they turn to grape sugar in this system

Answer 10

a fruit