Fruits vs. Vegetables: The Deathmatch - Neatorama

Think you know your fruits from your veggies? Slashfood doesn't think so. Take their quick quiz - just scribble your answers down on a scrap piece of paper or remember them in your head. I have to admit, I did worse than I thought I would. Photo via Wikipedia user Gpics.

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100 percent. Although I probably have the t.v. show QI to thank for it. They taught me that calling a banana a fruit isn't entirely correct! It's more of a berry because banana trees aren't trees at all, they're plants.

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I only got two wrong- corn and peanuts. The rest were all fairly obvious, I thought.

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i think kumquats could take all of you suckers...

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would kumquats be a wet fruit, then?
Perhaps a simple wet fruit.

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Painting with a broad brush: If it has seeds, it is a fruit. (And, yes, seedless grapes and oranges are still fruits.)

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9/10 - i missed the 'dry fruit / grain'
got the two legumes though.

And Reechard: i agree the banana plant is not a tree, it's acutally a herbacious plant. but are trees not plants?

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Reechard, aren't berries just a type of fruit?

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10/10. This should be pretty easy to anyone who took high school biology. Actually, the distinction is even easier than that. A gradeschooler could handle it IF the material was covered in what masquerades as "Science" class these days in the (US) government schools.

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It's a Fruit if you eat the flower, the seed, or the covering around the seed.

It's a Vegetable if you eat the stalk, the root, or the leaves.

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Gah this annoys me. The terms 'fruit' and 'vegetable' are used in different contexts, and items can be both, such as the tomato.

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10/10 Does being a botanist count as cheating? LOL

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Yeah, it's a foggy area. That's why I said it's not ENTIRELY true. Of course it's a plant. The point was it's not a fruit in the traditional sense most people think it is. Not something I'd ever correct someone on but kinda neat

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Failed <- Just kidding...just went by what my teachers taught...if it has seeds it's a fruit.

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