What makes a vegetable a vegetable and a fruit a fruit?

4 responses so far ↓

• 1 Mrudul S // Jul 13, 2008

  The plant or plant part that can be eaten by garnishing or cooking are generally called as vegetables. Fruits can be eaten directly.

• 2 ADI // Jul 13, 2008

  a chilli is technically a fruit….but how often u eat it like you're eating an apple….??…more often u add it in a dish of watever your mum's cooking…..so i'd categorise chilli as a vege…

  on the contrary…

  an apple can be made into pies…..but more often too eaten whole……so it could be taken as fruits…..

  my say is tat vege is just a term….used out of necessity rather than to describe an object…

  BTW…potato is a tuber….

• 3 SONY // Jul 13, 2008

  A Vegetable is one which mostly accompanies with Salt to give tastier food, where as the fruits gives the taste directly or by accompanying sugar.

• 4 ATP-Man // Jul 13, 2008

  The word vegetable comes from the term vegetative. The vegetative parts of the plant are the non reproductive parts; roots, stems and leaves. So any vegetable is either a root, stem or leaf. The sexual reproductive structure is the flower, so any structure developing from there is considered a fruit (mature ovary) and its seeds (mature ovules). So a tomato is a fruit while a potato is a vegetable.

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