What is the difference between a fruit and a berry?

Answer 1

There is a difference between the culinary definition of fruit, vegetable and grain and the botanical definition.

The culinary definition: Fruits and vegetables are simply distinguished on where and how the item is used for food, and depending if it is savoury or sweet. For example a tomato would be considered a vegetable and a rhubarb would be considered a fruit. Grains are simply dried seeds and cereals.

The botanical definition: A fruit is the ripened ovary of a flowering plant, while a vegetable is any edible part of the plant that is not the fruit. Thus a tomato would be a fruit, while a rhubarb would be a vegetable. A grain, is also a type of fruit called caryposis that does not open at maturity.

Answer 2

A fruit is the thing that holds the seeds of the plant. A vegetable is other vegetative structure like leaves or root.

So a cucumber is a fruit so is a tomato, pumpkin.

Carrots, lettuce, cabbage are vegetables.
Fruits grow on trees and vegetables don't

Answer 3

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Answer 4

fruits have external seeds or internal pits while veggies do not

Answer 5

fruits are a reproductive part of a plant and vegetables are part of the plants root system

Answer 6

Fruits have seeds vegetables don't, for example, tomatoes have seeds but are commonly mistaken as vegetables..

Answer 7

Vegetables are a type of plant, but not all plants are vegetables. For example a carrot is a vegetable and a plant, a tree is not a vegetable, but it is a plant.