Fruit Vs Vegetable

A fruit is the mature ovary of a seed plant, usually developed from a flower. Fruits have
seeds so they further the reproductive cycle. A vegetable is a plant or that part of a plant
which is edible, and does not necessarily have a role in the plant's reproductive cycle. While
most vegetables and fruits are easy to distinguish and classify, some are still ambiguous as
to whether they are a vegetable or a fruit. Tomatoes, olives and avocados are often
considered vegetables, but are actually fruits.

Comparison chart

Fruit versus Vegetable comparison chart

Fruit Vegetable

Introduction The word fruit has different The term vegetable generally means
meanings in different contexts. In the edible parts of plants.
botany, fruits are the ripened
ovaries of flowering plants.

Seed Must contain seed, either inside Vegetables do not contain seeds.
or on the outside (e.g.,
strawberry).

Taste Mostly sweet, sometimes tart, Not sweet or very subtly sweet.
with bitter seeds. While each vegetable is distinct in
taste, hardly any vegetable can be
classified as sweet, sour, salty or
bitter.

Nutrition Low in fat and calories, high in Low in fat and claories, high in fiber.
fiber, often high in natural sugar. Startchy vegetables like beet and
potato are very high in sugar.

What is a fruit?: A fruit is defined as the developed ovary of a seed plant with its
contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or pineapple. It is the edible
part of a plant developed from a flower, with any accessory tissues, as the peach,
mulberry, or banana. A fruit is the often sweet and fleshy part of a plant that surrounds
the seeds, although some fruits like berries bear the seed on the outside of the fruit.
What is a vegetable? :All other edible plant parts are considered vegetables.
A vegetable is an herbaceous plant cultivated for an edible part, such as the root of the
beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.
 Examples of fruits and vegetables
Here's an interesting list of fruits that are often thought to be vegetables:

tomatoes
cucumbers
squashes and zucchini
avocados
green, red, and yellow peppers
peapods
pumpkins
olives
sweet potatoes and yams

Apples, eggplants, rose hips and corn kernels are also fruits.It is also interesting to note
that mushrooms are neither fruit nor vegetable; they are a type of fungus.
Types of Vegetables
Examples of vegetables include broccoli, potato, onions]], lettuce, spinach, turnips,
cauliflower, . Vegetables are classified according to the part of the plant:

Root vegetables: underground plant parts consumed by people as food. Root

vegetables are generally storage organs, enlarged to store energy in the form of
carbohydrates.
o Bulb vegetables like garlic, onion, shallot
o Tuberous roots like sweet potatoes and yams
o Taproots like radishes and carrots
o Root-like stems such as Florida arrowroot
o Modified plant stems like turmeric, lotus root, taro, water lily, ginger
and potato
Edible Flowers: flowers that are consumed either raw or after cooking. e.g.
broccoli, chives, cornflower, cauliflower, basil, bean, okra
Stems like asparagus, leek, sugar cane
Leafy vegetables like spinach, lettuce, kale, mustard and cabbage

Differences in popular usage

Fruits and vegetables are vegetarian as well as vegan, hence constitute a big part
of the staple diet in almost every household.
Traditionally, most people categorize "vegetables" as foods that are eaten as part
of a meal's main course and "fruits" as foods that are eaten for dessert or as a
snack.
Most fruits are sweet with bitter seeds, because they contain a simple sugar
called fructose, while most vegetables are less sweet because they have much
less fructose. The sweetness of fruit encourages animals to eat it and spit out
the bitter seeds on the ground so they spread and further the plant's life cycle.
Nutrition

Both fruits and vegetables are very high in nutrition as they contain many vitamins and
are low in fat and calories. A cup of fruit may contain more calories than a cup of
vegetables because fruits have higher sugar content. However, starchy vegetables like
beet and potato are higher in calorie as well as sugar. Although vegetables and fruits are
extensively used in preparations that involve cooking or baking, they provide most
nutrition when they are eaten raw. Because of the combination of high nutrition and low
calorie, most weight loss and diet plans recommend high portions of fruits and veggies
over processed food.

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food.
The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to
all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds. An
alternate definition of the term is applied somewhat arbitrarily, often by culinary and
cultural tradition. It may exclude foods derived from some plants that
are fruits, flowers, nuts, and cereal grains, but include savoury fruits such s tomatoes and
courgettes, flowers such as broccoli, and seeds such as pulses.

Originally, vegetables were collected from the wild by hunter-gatherers and entered

cultivation in several parts of the world, probably during the period 10,000 BC to 7,000 BC,
when a new agricultural way of life developed. At first, plants which grew locally would have
been cultivated, but as time went on, trade brought exotic crops from elsewhere to add to
domestic types. Nowadays, most vegetables are grown all over the world as climate
permits, and crops may be cultivated in protected environments in less suitable
locations. China is the largest producer of vegetables, and global trade in agricultural
products allows consumers to purchase vegetables grown in faraway countries. The scale of
production varies from subsistence farmers supplying the needs of their family for food,
to Agri businesses with vast acreages of single-product crops. Depending on the type of
vegetable concerned, harvesting the crop is followed by grading, storing, processing, and
marketing.
Vegetables can be eaten either raw or cooked and play an important role in human
nutrition, being mostly low in fat and carbohydrates, but high in vitamins, minerals
and dietary fiber. Many nutritionists encourage people to consume plenty of fruit and
vegetables, five or more portions a day often being recommended.

Fruits
In botany, a fruit is the seed-bearing structure in flowering plants that is formed from the
ovary after flowering. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants (also known as
angiosperms) disseminate their seeds. 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.[1] 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.

In common language usage, "fruit" normally means the fleshy seed-associated 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. In botanical usage, the term
"fruit" also includes many structures that are not commonly called "fruits", such as nuts,
bean pods, corn kernels, tomatoes, and wheat grains.

able of fleshy fruit examples

Type Examples

Simple fleshy
True berry, Stone fruit, Pome
fruit

Aggregate
Boysenberry, Lilium, Magnolia, Raspberry, Pawpaw, Blackberry, Strawberry
fruit

Multiple fruit Fig, Osage orange, Mulberry, Pineapple

Banana, Blackcurrant, Blueberry, Chili pepper, Cranberry, Eggplant, Gooseberry,
True berry
Grape, Guava, Kiwifruit, Lucuma, Pomegranate, Redcurrant, Tomato, Watermelon

True berry:
Cucumber, Gourd, Melon, Pumpkin
Pepo

True berry:
Grapefruit, Lemon, Lime, Orange
Hesperidium

Accessory fruit Apple, Rose hip, Stone fruit, Pineapple, Blackberry, Strawberry

There are three general modes of fruit development:

 Apocarpous fruits develop from a single flower (while having one or more

separate, unfused, carpels); they are the simple fruits.
 Syncarpous fruits develop from a single gynoecium (having two or more carpels
fused together).
 Multiple fruits form from many flowers —i.e., an inflorescence of flowers.