Fruit or Vegetable? Let’s find out…

Fruit or Vegetable Label your journal with two columns – one for fruit and one for vegetable Put each item on the next slide into one of the columns – take your best guess if you are unsure!

Which are fruit? Which are vegetable? Take a guess! Apple Onion Asparagus Carrots Celery Cucumber Grapes Tomatoes Beans Pumpkin Peas Potato Wheat Orange Avocado Lettuce Strawberries Walnut Squash Banana Broccoli Peppers Corn

What’s the actual difference? Vegetable: “A vegetable is the edible portion of a plant. Vegetables are usually grouped according to the portion of the plant that is eaten such as leaves (lettuce), stem (celery), roots (carrot), tubers (potato), bulbs (onion) and flowers (broccoli).” -University of California Cooperative Extension, Vegetable Research & Information Center:

What’s the actual difference? Fruit: “A fruit is the mature ovary of a plant. So a tomato is botanically a fruit but is commonly considered a vegetable. According to this definition squash, pepper and eggplants are also fruits.” -University of California Cooperative Extension, Vegetable Research & Information Center:

What’s the actual difference? You just read the botanical definition of a fruit and vegetable. However, cooking/grocery stores add some confusion about what is a vegetable vs. fruit

According to most grocery stores … FruitVegetable

So, why the difference? We just saw how grocery stores classify fruit v. vegetable – taste, uses in cooking, etc. Let’s review how science define fruit and vegetable: – Fruit: the mature ovary of a plant – Vegetable: edible portion of a plant such as leaves, stem, roots and flowers

According to science/botany … FruitVegetable

According to the grocery store … FruitVegetable