How to tell what is a fruit and a vegetable?

Question

I am doing a class project and I need to know the difference

Answer 1

A fruit bears or is a seed grown from the flowers ovary. After that fruit get broken down into beans, berries, pomes, pulse, nuts, grain, etc.

Vegetable refers to edible, nonsexually reproductive portions of the plant. So a vegetable can reproduce vegetatively like a potato grown from an eye, but this is a clone not true sexual reproduction.
Roots, tubers, rhizomes and bulbs are all vegetable forms we eat. Then there are leaves, stalks, sprouts, & the difficult to classify algae & fungi.

Answer 2

Visually, fruits have a scar at each end. Since fruits develop from the pistil of a flower, there will be a scar where the flower was attached to the stem (or there may be some stem still attached). On the opposite end, there is a scar where the style was. Check out an apple, an orange, a banana, a pea pod, a green bean, a cucumber, a melon, etc.
If you cut it open, a fruit contain seeds.
On the other hand, vegetable is not a well-defined term. Veggies are often fruits, but can be roots, stems, leaves, flowers, bulbs, petioles, seeds, etc.

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 nonsweet fruits). So, to be really nitpicky, a fruit could be a vegetable, but a vegetable could not be a fruit.
The Nutriquest team offers a similar answer, adding that most fruits are sweet because they contain a simple sugar called fructose, while most vegetables are less sweet because they have much less fructose. The sweetness of fruit encourages animals to eat it and thereby spread the seeds. The site also presents an interesting list of fruits that are often thought to be vegetables:

Answer 4

When ripened, fruits contain fructose which will not be the case with vegetables. Fruits generally ripen which vegetables don't. For fruits, the color changes from green to red, orange etc., unlike the vegetables.

Answer 5

All are vegetables, but we call the sweet ones,"Fruit."

Answer 6

The link below explains it all. Good Luck on your project.

Answer 7

um... common sense maybe.