how do u decide the difference between a vegetable and a fruit?

Answer 1

Vegatables are just normal parts of the plants such as leaves, roots and stem. And everything is fruit which is produced from the flower. But in common the fruit which gives sweet taste we call them fruits.
I guess therez nuthin to differentiate.

Answer 2

Well, think of it this way--a growing plant is a vegetable (or we could even make it more complicated and say that an edible plant is either a root vegetable or an herb vegetable), and a fruit is the reproductive part of the vegetable which contains the seeds. So a carrot is a root vegetable, but if you don't eat it, it will flower and set seeds (next year). Celery is an herb vegetable which when left will also make seeds. Broccoli is an herb vegetable (we eat the stem and most notably the flower buds) which when left to its own devices will have pretty yellow flowers, followed by seeds in a little hard fruit. Tomatoes are fruits; so are eggplants, peppers, peaches, okra--well, I think you can get the picture. It's just that "fruit" is really a botanical term for all seed-containing structures, whereas in common usage, we think of fruits as sweet, so that's where the confusion begins.

Answer 3

Well, fruits have seeds, while vegetables don't... of course, this is a touchy topic, because there have been other characteristics used to classify fruits and vegetables. I don't know about you, but I just can't think of a tomato as a fruit, so I choose not to... lol =]

Answer 4

No, no, the part that you eat has the seeds. Fruits are the reproductive part of the plant, the fertilized eggs (seed) and the ovary (womb...for lack of a better term). They may be from one flower as with apples, or many fused flowers as with pineapple.

Vegetable is any other part of the plant we eat, leaf stem as in celery, root as in carrot, leaf as in spinach, flower as in broccoli, bulb as in onion.

Squash is really a fruit, but the grocery trade has their own definition of a fruit vs vegetable. If it is sweet it is a fruit, if it is savor (nonsweet) it is a vegetable. Hence we have tomato fruits sold as vegetables.....same with peppers.

Just for mental exercise, come up with as many vegetables you can as ask yourself if they are really fruit instead.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

A simple answer to this is that fruits generally have seeds, while vegetables do not.

Answer 7

I teach first grade. For the most part, we teach kids that a fruit has seeds, a vegitable does not. I am sure there are exceptions to the rule (there always are in other things) but that is a pretty basic way to remember. :)

Answer 8

a very good question..not so long ago i thought a tomatoe was a vegetable..i am not sure, but i would like to know too...the seeds? on the other hand pumpkins, and marrows have seed...

Answer 9

fruits have seeds, vegetables don't

note - tomatoes and cucumbers etc are actually fruits

Answer 10

Fruit grows over ground : i.e on trees and vines.
Vegetables grow below ground .