It would seem what difficult is in defining, fruit before you or vegetable? Apples, oranges, bananas and other sweet fruits – fruit, tomatoes, cucumbers, potatoes, cabbage, squash – vegetables. However from the scientific point of view everything is far not so simple.
It is required to you
- Fruits which accessory needs to be defined; reference book on botany.
Instruction
1. The statement that tomato is a fruit, and, say, tea – vegetable can surprise many. However in terms of botany all indeed. In botany fruit call juicy fruits of trees or bushes, the ripened ovaries of flowers. Under this definition, in fact, both tomatoes, and cucumbers, and squash with eggplants, peas and haricot get.
2. Vegetables in botany call any edible part of plants, except for fruit, berries, nuts and seeds. Concerning root crops the disputes are conducted still - whether beet, carrots, potatoes and to them similar are vegetables, or these are modified root systems. Most often they are carried to vegetables, they are an edible part of a plant. However crude potatoes, for example, are not considered vegetable. But greens are vegetables too, so, tea is vegetable too, it is the greens eaten.
3. In botany berry is a multiseed fruit with a dense cover and juicy pulp. For this reason watermelon is considered to be berry as, by the way, and grapes are not fruit at all as all got used to consider. On some classifications carry to berries also the tomatoes mentioned above, squash, eggplants, etc. What actually these fruits belong to, to define very difficult.
4. But not to get confused finally, know that there is also a culinary classification of fruits habitual to all who eat these fruits. In culinary understanding fruit are sweet juicy fruits, vegetables – fruits which are exposed to any culinary processing, and tea is a tea. But also here it is possible to get confused – tomato can be eaten and crude, but it all the same will remain vegetable, and apple can be baked, and it will remain fruit. At the same time nothing terrible will be if you eat watermelon and will consider it fruit as well as grapes. Any classifications of vegetables and fruit are tangled and up to the end are not worked out therefore the main thing – is more vegetables and fruit because it is useful, and botanists will think of the rest.