• Shapillon@lemmy.world
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        18 days ago

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

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          18 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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            17 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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                17 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.

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          18 days ago

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