Are bell peppers fruit or vegitables? They have seeds!?

Answer 1

It is not about having seeds. It has to do with how the item developed.

The difference between a fruit and vegetable depends largely on your perspective. From a botanical perspective, a fruit is the mature ovary of a plant, such as an apple, melon, cucumber, or tomato. From the common, every day "grocery store perspective," we tend to use the word fruit with respect to fruits eaten fresh as desserts - apples, peaches, cherries, etc. - and not to items cooked or used in salads. So, tomatoes tend to be lumped in with vegetables because of the way they are used (cooked and in salads), but botanists will call them fruits because they develop from the reproductive structures of plants. The California legislature once passed a law declaring tomatoes a vegetable in order to impose a tariff on Mexican imports!



Your answer is way to simplistict Bert, but thanks for the thumbs down.

Answer 2

They are popularly considered to be vegetables, but theoretically, since they do contain seeds, they are actually a fruit. So are tomatoes, by the way. I think the classifications should be changed. Just because something has seeds, doesn't actually fit in the fruit category as we think of fruits. I would never regard a bell pepper as a fruit. And what about avocados? They have a big seed in the middle, but are still in the veggie family.

Answer 3

fruit. A vegitable is defined as a leaf, stem or root of a plant

Answer 4

You have answered your own question. They have seeds, therefore they are fruits.

EDIT
It has EVERYTHING to do with seeds. The definition of a fruit is that part of a plant that produces the seeds.

Bert

Answer 5

It is a VEGETABLE Mr know it all BERT.