Is it a Fruit or a Vegetable?

by Annie Scott (Subscribe to Annie Scott's posts)
Posted Dec 2nd 2008 3:03PM
Filed under: Vegetables, Fruit

A 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?

Cucumber
Potato
Bell Pepper
Corn
Tomato
Radish
Peanut
Acorn Squash
Artichoke
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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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.

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.

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

12-03-2008 @ 10:06PM

parliament said...

Actually, a tomato is a berry. The largest of all.

12-09-2008 @ 12:50PM

Alison said...

@beanspants - what about strawberries?

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

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.

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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