Vegetables to Fruits?

[Spook]

Sorry, I forgot to add the poll in my last thread, and it won't let me edit the poll in so here we go:

Hi, VT. Another Animal Luverrr Rambling. I have decided to start a debate about fruit and vegetables, along with a poll.

So...here is the question: Do you think that Vegetables are fruits?

We classify fruits as food that has enclosed seeds inside of it, but vegetables also have that! Ever cracked open a green pepper and seen the seeds in the center?

I was talking to my dad about this this morning so I decided to put it on VT. :)


Hmm another question...what makes a vegetable a vegetable?

Wow I just noticed something VT backwards is TV. lol Thanks, ~Caitlin.

[LiekOmgz]

Hmm, I'm not too sure. because some don't have seeds inside of them but they do say that tomatoes are fruits but I've always thought of it as a vegetable. I can't speak for others though so I'm just gonna say maybe/not sure. that makes me wonder though.

[Amnesiac]

In broad terms, a fruit is a structure of a plant that contains its seeds.

The term has different meanings dependent on context. In non-technical usage, such as food preparation, fruit normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, juniper berries and bananas. Seed-associated structures that do not fit these informal criteria are usually called by other names, such as vegetables, pods, nut, ears and cones.

Many foods considered 'vegetables' are actually, technically, fruits. It depends on the context of the use of the word 'fruit'.

The point is, if what you eat contains seeds, it's a biological fruit. That's not debatable. Now, as for the culinary definitions, there's no fine line between a fruit and vegetable.