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 carry seeds, vegetables are anything else of the plant.
That’s the technical definition anyway. Due to how things are used when actually cooking, or nutritional differences some things may be classed as vegetables or fruits even if they are not technically that from a biology standpoint.
One common example is a tomato. Though biologically a tomato is a fruit, how it’s used in cooking is similar to a typical vegetable, and so when speaking legally, or in cooking tomatoes are classed as vegetables.
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