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Posted - 2004.11.15 21:51:00 -
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The difference between fruits and vegetable comes down to how plants disperse their seeds. Fruits disperse their seeds via animal ingestion, vegetables disperse their seeds via air.
Toms are therefore fruits.
Jaffa cakes are cakes. Biscuits are hard and crunchy. And dont have the word cake in their name.
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Posted - 2004.11.15 21:51:00 -
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The difference between fruits and vegetable comes down to how plants disperse their seeds. Fruits disperse their seeds via animal ingestion, vegetables disperse their seeds via air.
Toms are therefore fruits.
Jaffa cakes are cakes. Biscuits are hard and crunchy. And dont have the word cake in their name.
:)
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Ghost Red
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Posted - 2004.11.16 15:35:00 -
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 Originally by: Scorpyn
Originally by: Negotiator
tomatoes are berries
Dammit you beat me to it...
As far as I recall tomatoes (and oranges) are berries.
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a vegetable. its a supermarket term, not a botanical one. A fruit is the swollen ovary of a flower, with the fertilised seeds inside the fruit. The fruit is there to entice an animal to ingest it and thus carry the seed to somewhere else. Many plants classed as vegetables, ie the bit we eat which is the root, disperse their seeds via the air, and are not classed as fruit bearing plants.
Hope that explains it. 
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Posted - 2004.11.16 15:35:00 -
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Originally by: Scorpyn
Originally by: Negotiator
tomatoes are berries
Dammit you beat me to it...
As far as I recall tomatoes (and oranges) are berries.
Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as a vegetable. its a supermarket term, not a botanical one. A fruit is the swollen ovary of a flower, with the fertilised seeds inside the fruit. The fruit is there to entice an animal to ingest it and thus carry the seed to somewhere else. Many plants classed as vegetables, ie the bit we eat which is the root, disperse their seeds via the air, and are not classed as fruit bearing plants.
Hope that explains it.
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