If a fruit is a seed carrying structure.... would a seedless grape still be a fruit?

Question

Fruit is defined by a seed carrying structure... but would you technically consider a seedless grape a fruit since it doesn't carry seed?

Answer 1

The term fruit has different meanings depending on context. In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds.[1] In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy, examples of which include plums, apples and oranges. However, a great many common vegetables, as well as nuts and grains, are the fruit of the plant species they come from.[2] No single terminology really fits the enormous variety that is found among plant fruits.[3] The cuisine terminology for fruits is inexact and will remain so. The term false fruit (pseudocarp, accessory fruit) is sometimes applied to a fruit like the fig (a multiple-accessory fruit; see below) or to a plant structure that resembles a fruit but is not derived from a flower or flowers. Some gymnosperms, such as yew, have fleshy arils that resemble fruits and some junipers have berry-like, fleshy cones. The term "fruit" has also been inaccurately applied to the seed-containing female cones of many conifers.[4]

With most fruits pollination is a vital part of fruit culture, and the lack of knowledge of pollinators and pollenizers can contribute to poor crops or poor quality crops. In a few species, the fruit may develop in the absence of pollination/fertilization, a process known as parthenocarpy.[5] Such fruits are seedless. A plant that does not produce fruit is known as acarpous, meaning "without fruit".[6]
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Answer 2

1) the definition of a fruit is that it HAS seeds (a tomato is a fruit). 2) seedless grapes and seedless watermelon HAVE seeds, they are just immature and edible. 3) bananas have seeds 4) a raisin is a grape (scroll down - you'll get it) 5) blueberries have seeds 6) coconut is not a fruit!! COME ON PEOPLE!!! LIMES - with the exception of key limes - they do have seeds. Margarita anyone?

Answer 3

Of course. Just because the seeds have been bred out of a particular plant doesn't mean it isn't fruit. So how can a seedless grape be propagated? By the original method that created it, hybridization, or grafting.

Answer 4

It's a fruit people have manipulated. I guess that makes it a frankinfruit.

Answer 5

thats a good question but i think people still say its a fruit