You will need
- The fruit, which you need to determine; Handbook of botany.
Instruction
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Many may be surprised by the assertion that the tomato is a fruit, and, say, tea is a vegetable. However, in terms of botany it is. In botany a fruit called the juicy fruits of trees or shrubs ripened ovaries of flowers. Under this definition, in fact, fall tomatoes, and cucumbers, and zucchini with eggplant, peas and beans.
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Vegetables in botany refers to any edible part of plants, except fruit, berries, nuts, and seeds. About the roots of the debate so far - whether vegetables beets, carrots, potatoes and the like, or it's modified root system. Most often they belong to the vegetables, because they are the edible part of the plant. However, raw potatoes, for example, a vegetable is not considered. But green is also the vegetables, and then tea is also a vegetable because it's green, edible.
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In botany, the berry is seeded fruit with a dense shell and a juicy pulp. That is why watermelon is considered a berry, by the way, the grape is not a fruit, as everyone used to think. According to some classifications to include berries and the above mentioned tomatoes, zucchini, eggplant, etc. what actually are these fruits, it is difficult to determine.
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But in order not to get lost completely, you know that there is a culinary classification of the fruit, familiar to all who use these fruits as food. In the culinary sense, fruit is sweet juicy fruits, vegetables and fruits which are subjected to any culinary treatment, and tea is tea. But here can be confusing – after all, tomatoes can be eaten raw, but it's still a vegetable, and an Apple can be baked, it will remain a fruit. And nothing terrible will happen if you eat watermelon and you will find it with fruit, like grapes. Any classification of vegetables and fruits messy and not finalised, so the main thing is to eat plenty of vegetables and fruit because it is useful, and the rest will think botanists.