What really vegetables, and that - fruit (and how it is determined)

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Apple - a fruit, like a banana and cucumber - a vegetable, it's all they know. But in terms of botany's not quite true. The good news is that the number of fruits and vegetables that need to eat for the day, as it were, "summed up", so you can eat what you like. But many of the products that we used to take vegetables and fruits actually.

By the fruit, for example, include beans, corn, peppers, peas, eggplants, squash, cucumbers, courgettes and tomatoes, because it all - flowering plants. Within these there are seeds, and such plants are propagated by these seeds. Strictly speaking, even the nuts - a fruit, as well as grain.

Vegetables botanists call the rest of the plant - leaf (lettuce and spinach), root vegetables (carrots and radishes), stems (celery and ginger) and flower buds (broccoli and cauliflower).

To summarize: if there are seeds of plants, it is a fruit, but if not - vegetable. But why do we call habitual vegetables peppers, corn and cucumbers? This stems from the historically formed the view that the importance is not the biological characteristics of the product and taste. In cooking fruit called sweet fruits and vegetables are the same - more naughty and not so sweet. Fruits are often served as a dessert, and vegetables are part of the main course.

via factroom.ru