how do you tell the difference between a fruit and a vegetable?

Answer 1

Wow..that's a loaded question. Okay. To explain it in layman's terms. A fruit has seeds and vegetables don't Example of fruits: Strawberries, tomatoes, etc. Vegetables: lettuce, carrots, etc. Keep in mind that vegetables can be the fruit of a plant...super confusing. Try finding a book on basic botany.. Good luck

Answer 2

All depends on how people use the term. Most use vegetable to describe any nonsweet organic stuff we might eat-- lettuce (a leaf) , radishes, potatoes, (roots) broccoli, (stems and flowers) tomatoes (a fruit) and cucumbers (fruit). My idiot legislature recently deemed Watermelon, a sweet fruit that anyone would call a fruit, the state Vegetable, since strawberries were already the "state fruit" for some reason. The other definitions are scientifically based, but laymen don't pay attention to science anyway!

Answer 3

For fruits, look for the seeds. Even if we usually call a fruit a vegetable, like tomatoes, they are the fruit of the plant. For vegetables, we eat the "vegetative" parts that include the stems and leaves. You can learn more about this in a botany class.

Answer 4

A vegetable grows in the ground and fruits grow on trees.

Answer 5

I suppose a fruit would be sweet to sour and vegetables a bit tasteless. But a vegetable is in fact a fruit, if its not a leaf.

Answer 6

A fruit is the ovary of the plant. That is it holds the seeds. (i.e. tomato, okra, stringbean)

Vegetables are any edible part of the plant. (i.e. celery, spinach)