However, the fruit wall is thin and fused to the seed coat, so almost all the edible grain-fruit is actually a seed. Edible gymnosperm seeds are often given fruit names, e.g., ginkgo nuts and pine nuts.īotanically, a cereal grain, such as corn, rice, or wheat is a kind of fruit (termed a caryopsis). In contrast, rhubarb is often called a fruit when used in making pies, but the edible produce of rhubarb is actually the leaf stalk or petiole of the plant. The spices chili pepper and allspice are fruits, botanically speaking. Įxamples of botanically classified fruit that typically are called vegetables include: cucumber, pumpkin, and squash ( all are cucurbits) beans, peanuts, and peas ( all legumes) corn, eggplant, bell pepper (or sweet pepper), and tomato (see image).
Vegetables, so called, typically are savory or non-sweet produce ( zucchini, lettuce, broccoli, and tomato) but some may be sweet-tasting (sweet potato). In culinary language, a fruit is the sweet- or not sweet- (even sour-) tasting produce of a specific plant (e.g., a peach, pear or lemon) nuts are hard, oily, non-sweet plant produce in shells ( hazelnut, acorn). A nut is a type of fruit (and not a seed), and a seed is a ripened ovule. For example, in botany, a fruit is a ripened ovary or carpel that contains seeds e.g., an apple, pomegranate, tomato or a pumpkin. Many common language terms used for fruit and seeds differ from botanical classifications. Īn arrangement of fruits commonly thought of as culinary vegetables, including corn (maize), tomatoes, and various squash In botanical usage, the term "fruit" also includes many structures that are not commonly called "fruits" in everyday language, such as nuts, bean pods, corn kernels, tomatoes, and wheat grains.
In common language usage, "fruit" normally means the seed-associated fleshy structures (or produce) of plants that typically are sweet or sour and edible in the raw state, such as apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, and strawberries. Consequently, fruits account for a substantial fraction of the world's agricultural output, and some (such as the apple and the pomegranate) have acquired extensive cultural and symbolic meanings. Edible fruits in particular have long propagated using the movements of humans and animals in a symbiotic relationship that is the means for seed dispersal for the one group and nutrition for the other in fact, humans and many animals have become dependent on fruits as a source of food. In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the ovary after flowering.įruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. Various fruits arranged at a stall in the Municipal Market of São Paulo
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