What are the diferences between vegetables and fruits?
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in botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/fruit...\n\nVegetable is a culinary term denoting any part of a herbaceous plant that can be eaten whole or in part. It is commonly consumed by humans as food. Vegetable is also used as a literary term for any plant: vegetable matter, vegetable kingdom. It comes from Latin vegetabilis (animated) and from vegetare (enliven) in reference to the process of a plant growing. It wasn't until the 15th century when the word Vegetable was first used in print. And not until the 18th century when the word was used as a noun refering directly to the category of plants.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/vegetable...
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Plant cells have Chloroplast... Cell Walls... and Water Vacuoles\n\nAnimals cells... of a centrioul, and food Vacoules.\n\nThose are the main differences of the organells
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Frozen is better. That's as close as you're getting to fresh. Canned veggies are processed and can be high in sodium and other things not good for you. Good luck with your new life plan!
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The main difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms is that the ovules and the seeds of gymnosperms are unprotected unlike the seeds of angiosperms which are enclosed in fruit.
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The plant or the fruit? That's the trick.
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From the cooking point of view, furits have pips -as they develope from the ovary, a part of the flower- and vegetables don't. Vegetables are the edible leaves, seeds, stems, roots or tubers.\n\nBut if you stop to think, vegetable is any plant or edible part of a plant, including fruits.
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You can put fruit into a vegetable salad, such as mandarin oranges or pineapple or apple.  This is quite common.\n\n(Of course, botanically a tomato is a fruit, so any salad with tomato has fruit in it . . .)  :o)\n\nA fun salad that I have made has spinach leaves, chopped boiled egg, mandarin oranges, water chestnuts, chow mein noodles [uncooked] and french/california dressing.
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A fruit is technically something with seeds within and where the flesh of the fruit is actually food for the seeds as they mature into plants.\n\nVegetables, technically, are the stuff with leaves.\n\nStuff that grow in the ground are mostly tubers and roots. Like potatoes and yams and sweet potatoes.\n\nHowever, some fruits and tubers have been classified as vegetables for import/export purposes. Like okra (ladies finger) and eggplant and tomato.
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Tomato is actually a fruit, though many people classify it as a vegitable.  dont know about the starch though...
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Fruits and vegetables that are high in water content are great for the summertime.  They fill you up, and help to keep you hydrated.  Also, the more colorful the fruit/vegetable is, the more nutrients, phytochemicals, and antioxidants it tends to have.  When filling a shopping cart, try to have as many colors as possible.  Finally, frozen fruits and vegetables generally have the same nutritional benefit as fresh, and sometimes are easier for cooking/baking.\nI would recommend:\nFruits: Apples, berries, bananas, melons, dried plums, oranges\nVeggies: Broccoli, carrots, greens, tomatoes (ok, it's a fruit), spinach, eggplant, peppers
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http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/watermelon1.html
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No and no. Many vegetable are actually better for you after they are cooked. The body can't break down some of the raw vegetables properly and you don't get all the nutrients. Spinach is a prime example.
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NOT TOMATOES! TOMATOES ARE A FRUIT! Potatoes aren't either.\n\nI like, uh, uhhhhhh, I can't chose:\n\nLettuce probably,\nOr Carrots,\nOr Peppers\n\nNo, definately peppers. Pepper rules! Even my puppy agrees, pepper is her favorite. Her favorite fruit is banana's. Mine is oranges/pineapples. It depends.
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Whole fruit is better nutritionally than fruit juice.  It has all of the votamins and minerals as the juice, as well as fiber to fill you up.  THe fiber is handy also in keeping your blood sugar from spiking which can happen as juice is full of sugars (natural or not, sugar is sugar).
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Only plant foods like fruits, vegetables and other fruit--nuts, seeds and beans have fiber. Animal foods have no fiber. Also more people than ever take vitamin/mineral supplements but Americans are sicker than ever.\n\nThe real health benefits are in the thousands of phytochemicals (phyto means plant) in them like lycopene and the anti-oxidants in tea. Also 5,000 studies have shown that fruit and vegetables prevent cancer. But to see the real healing power of them uncooked, see the first testimonial on this webpage below. It is totally awesome. Great question!
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Well, all of your green vegetables are good, and fruits.  They all add anti-oxidants which help.
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some flowers are edible.  nasturtiums, for example, are great on salads, although they have fairly little taste.\nfruits are the ovaries of flowers.  the flower is pollinated, and the ovary starts to grow, eventually ripening into a tasty fruit.  most flowers won't hurt you much, although they might taste bad and make you a little sick to your stomach.