Difference between a fruit and vegetable?!


Question: Difference between a fruit and vegetable?
Just wondering because some foods like cucumbers and avacados taste and look like vegetables but all fruits have seeds and stuff. The only difference i can tell is that fruits are tastier and more tropical and vegetables are more yuckier and grown anywhere

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A fruit has seeds on the inside.

A fruit is the edible reproductive part- the ovary- of a plant.
Cucumbers, squash, tomatoes, avocados, they're all fruits too.

Vegetables are the edible root or tuber of a plant.
They do not have seeds inside. If you throw a vegetable on the soil it won't grow.

But a fruit will- because the seeds wil germinate.

Fruit is generally sweeter, from sugars and chlorophyll which attracts flies and bees- this is how they pollinate- by insects carrying seeds across the fields.

Vegetables, being the root or tuber, generally have less sugar in them, and not as sweet. Bugs do not cross pollinate vegetables, so naturally, there is no need to attract bees and wasps.



Vegetables are either the root, stalk, or leaves of a plant. Fruits grow from flowers and are the result of the sexual reproduction that occurred in those organs, hence the seeds.



fruits and vegetables are all plants except fruits have seeds. Some fruits may differ in taste and be used as a vegetable would, but in the end it may be a fruit. like eggplant or cucumber for example.



Fruits have seeds! Regardless, so many people think vegetables w/ seeds are veggies....oh, well, that's marketing for you! lol

Just remember, anything w/ seeds is a fruit!



Anything with seeds is a fruit
Anything without seeds is a vegetable.

I don't know if there are any exceptions to this.




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