Fruit vs vegetable

What's the difference between a fruit and a vegetable? There's that classic thing: tomatoes are really a fruit — well, a whole lot of other vegetables are technically fruit too. I do find this way of thinking of it helpful:

• Fruit — ovaries developed from the flowering parts containing seeds. They’re basically what grows where the flower was.
• Vegetable — other edible parts of a plant. So basically, anything else, with a handy list being: leaves, roots, stems and flowers.

So this makes tons of other common vegetables actually fruit, including peas, avocadoes, cucumbers, eggplants, bell peppers and more. And corn and raspberries are still rather complicated.

Also see:

• hedgehog a mango
• de-seed pomegranates
• the hungry gap
• freeze lemons and limes
• scoville scale
• what’s the difference between mandarins, clementines, satsumas and tangerines?
• open bananas like a monkey
• roll limes before squeezing
• cut an onion into teeny pieces
• advice to eat well