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Is it a Fruit or a Vegetable?

Fruits and VeggiesA cucumber. A pickle. They're the same thing, but are they fruits or vegetables?

Think you know your stuff? Take my little quiz here on a piece of paper and see the answers after the jump.

QUESTIONS - FRUIT OR VEGETABLE?
  1. Cucumber
  2. Potato
  3. Bell Pepper
  4. Corn
  5. Tomato
  6. Radish
  7. Peanut
  8. Acorn Squash
  9. Artichoke
  10. Snow Peas


ANSWERS

1. A cucumber is a fruit
2. A potato is a vegetable
3. A bell pepper is a fruit
4. Corn is a "dry fruit;" technically a grain
5. A tomato is a fruit
6. A radish is a vegetable
7. A peanut is a legume - which is defined as a "simple dry fruit"
8. An acorn squash is a fruit, as are all squashes
9. An artichoke is a vegetable
10. Snow peas are legumes again. Fruits.

How did you do? Got any arguments? If you're baffled, click here to read up on the basics.

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Reader comments (Page 1 of 1)

Mike

12-02-2008 @5:09PM Mike said... I agree corn is usually a grain, but you plant the thing you eat to grow more corn you don't have internal seeds. I don't think it can qualify as a fruit. Its either a grain or a veggie.
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Michael

12-02-2008 @10:33PM Michael said... Vegetable is strictly a culinary term, while fruit is a botanical term. Therefore, being a fruit doesn't mean that, say, a bell pepper can't also be a vegetable.
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beanspants

12-03-2008 @3:38PM beanspants said... For most it's easy:

seeds on the inside: fruit
seeds on the outside (or no seed): vegetable


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parliament

12-03-2008 @10:06PM parliament said... Actually, a tomato is a berry. The largest of all.
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Alison

12-09-2008 @12:50PM Alison said... @beanspants - what about strawberries?
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jonathan charak

12-04-2008 @7:56PM jonathan charak said... time for my biology nerdiness to shine:

Fruit = the ovary of a plant when it is edible

vegetable = if you eat any other part of a plant

a strawberry is an aggregate fruit or a multiple fruit, I forget. each little speck on a strawberry was once a separate flower with its own ovary
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phosita

12-08-2008 @10:37AM phosita said... While a tomato may technically be a fruit, the US Supreme Court declared it to be a vegetable in Nix v. Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893). So, for legal purposes in the United States, a tomato is actually a vegetable.
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BRiYANNA

2-02-2009 @11:56AM BRiYANNA said... i JUST WANNA KNW iF FRUiTS ARE VEGGiES,
iM iN SPANiSH AND WERE TRYNA FiGURE 0UT iF FRUiTS ARE VEGGiES 0R iS VEGGiES FRUiTS?

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