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what makes a vegetable a vegetable?


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In everyday usage, a vegetable is any part of a plant that is consumed by humans as food as part of a savory meal. The term "vegetable" is somewhat arbitrary, and largely defined through culinary and cultural tradition. It normally excludes other food derived from plants such as fruits, nuts and cereal grains, but includes seeds such as pulses. The original meaning of the word vegetable, still used in biology, was to describe all types of plant, as in the terms "vegetable kingdom" and "vegetable matter".

 

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wait.......... 

that might've sounded stupid

but idk apparently vegetables dont have seeds thats why a tomato is considered a fruit? 

also vegetables such as potatos and carrots grow from the ground while fruits grow from a stem of a plant

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that might've sounded stupid

but idk apparently vegetables dont have seeds thats why a tomato is considered a fruit? 

also vegetables such as potatos and carrots grow from the ground while fruits grow from a stem of a plant

 

nah it didnt i was just confused by what u meant

 

i'm guessing this was what you were trying to say?/

 

Anything that doesn't have seeds in it. Tomatoes, cucumbers, avocados, beans, peapods, corn, olives, peppers/capsicum, chilies, pumpkins, eggplants, zucchinis, okra & squash are all technically fruits. Sunflower seeds are technically a fruit as well. 

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a plant or part of a plant that you would eat with the main meal rather than with the dessert, excluding things like nuts, seeds, grains and spices. in daily language it's more about flavour and usage than if it's technically a root, leaf, fruit or somthing else in according to botany. i think something can be both a fruit and a vegetable, depending on situation and what you mean by the term. 

 

 

they grow underground and have no seeds?

what about broccoli? lettuce? cabbage? spinach? 

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