• @Shapillon@lemmy.world
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      218 days ago

      Otoh the fruit/veggie dinstinction is from culinary tradition and has nothing to do with botanical sciences.

      • @Bertuccio@lemmy.world
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        218 days ago

        I don’t particularly mind the culinary fruit/vegetable definition, but feel like sweet fruits/savory fruits/vegetables would have been clearer.

        • @Shapillon@lemmy.world
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          118 days ago

          Yeah and they grow in the ground too.

          A distinction that I find more entertaining than the fruit/veggie one is the berry category.

          • blueberry: not a berry
          • blackberry: nuh-uh
          • Strawberry: you’re an accessory fruit
          • banana: yup, totally a berry
          • watermelon: go for it

          That’s nuts

            • @Shapillon@lemmy.world
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              217 days ago

              These rules are made by botanists.

              A berry is a fleshy fruit without a pit produced by a single flower containing a single ovary.

              This definition is different from the colloquial culinary one which refers to anything small, growing on a small plant or bush and without a pit.