What is the difference between fruits and vegetables?
How vegetables and fruits are different
According to botanists the part of the plant that carries seeds and produced by the ovary of a flower plant is called fruit and the remaining part used forfood is called vegetables.
Scientists have divided fruits into three categories :
(i) fruits with pulp and seeds such as apple, orange, watermelon etc.
(ii) fruits with stones such as plum, cherry, peach etc.
(iii) Dry fruits such as almonds, walnuts etc.
Accordiing to botanists beans and peas also fall under the category of fruits. Cucumbers and marrows are also fruits. But cabbage turnip radish cauliflower all are vegetables. Onions potatoes etc. are also vegetables. In USA a controversy over tomato went on for a long time. Finally the US. supreme Court had to decide the issue. According to botanical science, tomato is a fruit but generally it is used as a vegetable. Keeping both the views in mind the supreme Court ruled in 1893 that tomato is a vegetable from commercial point of view. In science however this can be treated as a fruit.