what discerns a vegetable from a fruit.?
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What is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable?\nThe technical definition of a fruit is the (often fleshy) part of a plant that surrounds the seeds. By this definition, tomatoes, apples, pumpkins, eggplants, squashes, rose hips, peppers, peapods, cucumbers, and corn kernels are all fruits. All other edible plant parts are considered vegetables. Lettuce, carrots, and spinach are examples of vegetables.\n\nThe popular definitions of fruit and vegetable are somewhat different from the technical definitions. Most people categorize "vegetables" as foods that are eaten as part of a meal's main course and "fruits" as foods that are eaten for dessert or as a snack.\n\n\nThe difference between a fruit and vegetable depends largely on your perspective. From a botanical perspective, a fruit is the mature ovary of a plant, such as an apple, melon, cucumber, or tomato. From the common, every day "grocery store perspective," we tend to use the word fruit with respect to fruits eaten fresh as desserts - apples, peaches, cherries, etc. - and not to items cooked or used in salads. So, tomatoes tend to be lumped in with vegetables because of the way they are used (cooked and in salads), but botanists will call them fruits because they develop from the reproductive structures of plants. The California legislature once passed a law declaring tomatoes a vegetable in order to impose a tariff on Mexican imports!
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Onions.\n\nReally, google "vidalia" and see what you get.
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acid and base\nget red cabbage boil it but don't let the juice go to waste.. collect it\nget  some paper towel and dip it in the juice  pull it out and let it dry... pick it up and cut it in strips... now use it to measure if somethign is acid or base ... blue or green if its a base... red or orange if it's acid... \nthe hypothesis can be on finding out if any liquid is acid or base and the above is the procedure\ngood luck\nbtw a+ in 8th grade with this
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the fruit is forbidden knowledge
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Veggies = 1 Cup raw or 1/2 cup cooked. Fruit is a little more complex, it's based on the amount of natural sugars, here are some: Watermelon=1 cup, cantelope or similar melon= 1/8 of the melon, apple= 1 small, orange= 1 small, banana= 1/2 banana, grapes= ~15, raisins or dried fruit= 1/4 cup, fruit juice= 6 oz. except cranberry juice cocktail= 4 oz.
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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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Easy.When you get this piece of fruit look at the label of the basket it came out of.I won't explain the rest because I don't want to spoil your fun.But that one label tells you everything you need to know.
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pick fruits and vegetables?
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the roots, the stem, the leaves, and the flower/fruits
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when an egg is fertilized by a pollen, it begins its development in the ovary. the ovary wall then becomes the fruit. a fruit is a product of reproduction.\n\nthe terms fruits and vegetables were probably coined to differentiate commercial plant products. fruit still refers to fertilized ovary wall while a vegetable refers to edible plant parts other than the fruit. \n\njust like carrot. it is actually the root that is why it is classified as vegetable. an apple is a fruit since it is from the fertilized ovary and the flower's receptacle.\n\none factor to look out for is the seed. a seed is a fertilized ovule. if you're whether something's a fruit or a vegetable, try to look for seeds. when you see some, then that's probably an ovary, since an ovary houses ovules.\n\nabout your question, pumpkins, olives and tomatoes are all fruits.
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fruit such as bananas, pineapple etc \n\nor how about doubling up on your fav veg ?
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Fruits contain seeds. Vegetables don't.  But there is a lot more to it. See here:\n\nhttp://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/teach/msg011956409905.html
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Fruits are classified according to various morphological and functional characteristics. \nBasically fruits are either dry (i.e. sunflower or acorn) or fleshy. \nAmong the fleshy fruit types, the berries are those fleshy fruits without a stony layer, and with one to many seeds. In the case of the banana fruits, they are a special type of berry because they're parthenogenetic (=develop without male fertilization) and thus seedless.
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Socrates struggled with this very question for many years, finally realizing that the premise was actually wrong. Apples are to oranges what fruit loops are to FRUITY PEBBLES.\n\nOnce you realize this, the answer will be obvious.
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The fruit is full size but it is green and immature...events must now happen to cause it to ripen so that it is attractive and rewarding for an animal to carry it off...dispersing the seeds.\n\nThe way fruits ripen is that there is commonly a ripening signal...a burst of ethylene production. Ethylene is a simple hydrocarbon gas (H2C=CH2) that ripening fruits make and shed into the atmosphere. Sometimes a wound will cause rapid ethylene production...thus picking a fruit will sometimes signal it to ripen...as will an infection of bacteria or fungi on the fruit. This ethylene signal causes developmental changes that result in fruit ripening.\n Chlorophyll is broken down and sometimes new pigments are made so that the fruit skin changes color from green to red, yellow, or blue. Acids are broken down so that the fruit changes from sour to neutral. The degradation of starch by amylase produces sugar. This reduces the mealy (floury) quality and increases juiciness (by osmosis, a process we will study later). The breakdown of pectin, thanks to pectinase, between the fruit cells unglues them so they can slip past each other. That results in a softer fruit...at an extreme, pectin losses may make a fruit "pithy". Also enzymes break down large organic molecules into smaller ones that can be volatile (evaporate into the air) and we can detect as an aroma.
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Since carrots are good for the eyes, I would guess that the answer is apples. brb i'll try to find ya some proof.\n\nI hope this is helpful!
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Tomatoes are fruits, becuase of their seed pattern. Only fruits have a seed pattern, while vegatables dont.