I’m a little interested in why the distinction between fruits and vegetables were even made and I’m not smart enough to word it well enough for google. I know that one grows above ground and the other doesn’t, but does this sole difference actually make them different foods? Sort of like how a strawberry isn’t really a berry because of where it grows but does it have some extreme chemical makeup difference that leads it to be well…not a berry?
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Fruits are biologically all organs that plants produce to ensure distribution of their seeds.
Culinary, the category of “vegetable” typically means some plant parts, of which some might or might not be biological fruit. So tomatoes are “vegetables” although they are fruits of tomato plants. They are mostly though not always used in savory dishes, or at least not deserts, though there is a tomato jam. So the distinction in culinary use is mostly convention – some true fruits will be culinary vegetables, but many other parts of the plant can be eaten and are not technically fruit are also considered vegetables, like leaves, stems and roots.
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