is a bell pepper a fruit or a vegetable?

Answer 1

Technically, the bell pepper is a fruit, since it contains the seeds of the plant, but in a cookery context it is usual to refer to it as a vegetable since it has a savoury taste.

Answer 2

Is A Pepper A Fruit

Answer 3

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is a bell pepper a fruit or a vegetable?

Answer 4

A bell pepper, like green beans or tomatoes, is both fruit and vegetable. The botanical definition of fruit and the culinary
definition of fruit are different and largely non-overlapping. A
fruit in the culinary sense is ordinarily sweet or at least acidic
or citrusy. Vegetables are non-sweet. To a large extent the
culinary fruits are also botanically fruits, but so are many of the
culinary vegetables. If the edible part of the plant is a root,
stem, or leaves it is almost invariably called a vegetable, but
which would you call rhubarb? This is just another example of
the common phenomenon that the scientific or technical
definition of a word is different from that used in common
speech, so there are really two different words (in the sense
of different meanings) involved.

Answer 5

In biology there is no word as vegetable. bell pepper is a fruit it comes from a flower and then matures.but maybe in culinary maybe it is classified as vegetable spice since it is not eaten rawly. But scientifically, bell pepper is a fruit.

Answer 6

A bell pepper is considered a fruit, officially.

Answer 7

A fruit is a portion of a plant originating from a flower ovary and containing seeds. A bell pepper fits this description.

A vegetable is any portion of a plant which is soley vegetative (not a fruit). This includes flower buds, flowers, leaves, stems, roots, corms, rhizomes, stolons, vascular tissue, etc.

Answer 8

They both are Ideal for your health. If you eat both, you're better off. But yea, I've choose fruits because they taste better.

Answer 9

Fruit, because it has seeds in it.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Pepper
"Bell pepper is a cultivar group of the species Capsicum annuum. Colors of the fruit include red, yellow, green and orange."

According to Wikipdedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit
"The term fruit has different meanings depending on context. In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant."