• Shapillon@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Otoh the fruit/veggie dinstinction is from culinary tradition and has nothing to do with botanical sciences.

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        16 days ago

        I don’t particularly mind the culinary fruit/vegetable definition, but feel like sweet fruits/savory fruits/vegetables would have been clearer.

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        16 days ago

        That’s interesting.

        It’s like how peanuts are legumes and not nuts. But I feel like that makes sense because of the pods.

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          16 days ago

          Yeah and they grow in the ground too.

          A distinction that I find more entertaining than the fruit/veggie one is the berry category.

          • blueberry: not a berry
          • blackberry: nuh-uh
          • Strawberry: you’re an accessory fruit
          • banana: yup, totally a berry
          • watermelon: go for it

          That’s nuts

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              16 days ago

              These rules are made by botanists.

              A berry is a fleshy fruit without a pit produced by a single flower containing a single ovary.

              This definition is different from the colloquial culinary one which refers to anything small, growing on a small plant or bush and without a pit.