Fruit? Vegetable? Herb?
Stephen J Bungard
sbungard at zenecabp.demon.co.uk
Wed Mar 1 04:21:43 EST 1995
In article <9502281356.AA12158 at 3b2adm.mckendree.edu>
smeissne at 3B2ADM.MCKENDREE.EDU "scott meissner" writes:
> You ask if a banana is a fruit or a vegetable.
> Fruits all are derived from flowers, vegetables come
> from stems, leaves, or roots (or on occasion flower
This is, of course, perfectly correct scientifically but it seems to me that
there are difficulties in the popular use of these terms eg:
Is rhubarb (petioles) fruit or veg to your average consumer?
How about tomatoes (fruit used as a salad vegetable)?
And many people think of mushrooms as vegetables when they are not even
These views may be a UK-centric. I would be interested to hear how these
terms are used elsewhere.
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