WTF, a banana is a berry!!?

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TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip · 92 pts · 156d (21 replies)

baconsunday@lemmy.zip · 46 pts · 156d (11 replies)

What keeps a peach from being a single-seed berry or from an avocado being a drupe?

Edit: low-key love that we are all learning by sharing knowledge and evidence. It's refreshing.

Edit 2: Fun Fact. Did you know Oklahoma has Watermelon as the State's Vegetable?

Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 17 pts · 156d (7 replies)

The hard endocarp

5765313496@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 156d (6 replies)

In other words, by my understanding, peaches have a pit containing their seeds, but avocados just have a seed.

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 155d (5 replies)

Do avocados not have a pit?

bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 11 pts · 155d (3 replies)

We call it that but the whole thing is just a big ol seed

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 155d (2 replies)

But how is that any different than a peach? I’m so confused by this.

bdonvr@thelemmy.club · 14 pts · 155d

Peach pits aren't seeds, but they have a seed inside.

Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 1 pts · 155d

Looks like the endocarp in the avocado is imperceptible, whereas it is the hard pit in peaches and other drupes, per Wikipedia

kn33@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 156d

Yeah this doesn't make any sense

exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 156d

Wikipedia says some categorize avocadoes as drupes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_(botany)

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 155d

Drupes have pits contained within a hard shell (I guess called an endocarp?).

Peach pits look like an almond inside of a walnut shell basically. Avocados just have a really large seed in direct contact with the buttery soft mesocarp.

I don't know who decided to classify gourds, melons, and citrus fruits as berries, but I imagine they had mischief in mind...

taiyang@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 156d (1 reply)

Ah yes, my favorite berry... the avocado.

ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d

I enjoy a good pumpkin berry. Fresh from the vine.

wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 155d

An apple sounds much less appealing when you describe it as an indecent (achoo) swollen receptacle tissue with a soft mesocarp...

Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 6 pts · 156d

Swollen receptacle tissue you say

deacon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 156d

Man I am glad I tasted fruit before I read this.

rothaine@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 156d (1 reply)

A pumpkin is a berry?!

some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 156d

I guess so? Which I suppose means all the other gourds/squash/melons/cucumbers are too

Swallows_Dick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d

Chat is this real

Klear@quokk.au · 2 pts · 156d

Pretty fruity

e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de · 38 pts · 156d (2 replies)

Aubergines, cucumbers, kiwi, and citrusfruit are botanical berries as well. The correct answer is that berry should be seen as a culinary term just like fruit and vegetable.

Klear@quokk.au · 17 pts · 156d (1 reply)

That's nuts!

some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 156d

Well ackthually... that's a legume

Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io · 27 pts · 156d (1 reply)

Not only that, banana is a grass berry.

SendMePhotos@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 156d

Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 156d (5 replies)

Fruit is sweet, vegetables are savory, berries are what I declare to be a berry. Done and done

TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 155d (2 replies)

Most "fruit" are sweet because we made them so. And we did so with plenty of vegetables too.

Sweetest thing in my garden are tomatoes.

Mulligrubs@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 155d (1 reply)

Once you grow your own tomatoes, supermarket just won't do. It's a different world, we are tomato buddies

Cort@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 155d

I'm so excited to start planting; all the tomato seeds we planned last weekend have already germinated

NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 155d (1 reply)

Fish are fishy.

racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 155d

Mom's spaghetti.

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 155d

Mushrooms in the vegetable section hoping no one calls them out

samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 156d

Humans accidentally named blueberries correctly.

null@lemmy.org · 11 pts · 156d

Berries aren't berries. Vegetables aren't real.

ameancow@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 156d (2 replies)
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ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 155d (1 reply)

Pictures?

SpacePanda@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 156d (1 reply)

Also so is squash lol

mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 155d

And pumpkin, peppers, cucumbers, zucchini,...

bunchberry@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 155d

General_Effort@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 155d (3 replies)

I didn't know plants have ovaries. Does that mean that strawberries are like an afterbirth? Are seedless fruit menstrual flow?

Maybe humans could evolve so that the bloody placenta attracts wolves who then raise the baby.

chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 155d (1 reply)

You know that white stuff that the seeds attach to in chilis? That’s the placenta! It’s the spiciest part of the whole pepper!

Omnipitaph@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 155d

I can't tell if you've ruined chilies for me, or if something else is happening.

JackFrostNCola@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 155d

How about this: mangrove trees give 'birth'.

Ioughttamow@fedia.io · 3 pts · 156d
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someguy3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 156d

Now I need to know if Blackberry is a berry.

*No:

The usually black fruit is not a berry in the botanical sense, as it is termed botanically as an aggregate fruit, composed of small drupelets.

Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 154d

It's the same as tomato being taxonomically a fruit. Taxonomically does not mean culinarily. Most people use culinary terms for these. Tomato is a vegetable. The first berry group is berries. Etc.

ICastFist@programming.dev · 2 pts · 154d

At times like these I'm kinda ok with portuguese lacking a "proper" word for berry. "Bago" or "baga" isn't really used, at least not in everyday life, everyone will always refer to them as fruits

RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 156d

All could’ve been solved with some inclusivity, but nooo…