Are any vegetables with seeds fruit?

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2026-02-06 11:10

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Tomatoes are considered as fruit.

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Botanically speaking, any fleshy mass containing seeds is a fruit. Squashes, pumpkins, tomatoes, Apples, citron, bananas,,,,etc.

Any non herbaceous seeds used for foods; roots, bulbs, leaf and stalks are vegetables.

Potatoes, onions, carrots, rhubarb, beans, peanuts, peas, corn (maize), cassava, ginger, spinach, kale, etc. are vegetables.

Grasses bearing hard fruits that can be dried and ground for flour, are grains.

Nuts are hard shelled seeds, often from trees.

Culinarily speaking if it is sweet and used as a dessert it is a fruit, if it is used as a side or main dish it is a vegetable or grain. (corn (maize) is often considered a grain, squash and tomatoes vegetables.) Plantains are a vegetable while bananas are fruit.

**Corn is not a fruit as there is no fleshy edible mass other than the seeds. A cashew is both a nut (the seed) and a fruit (the Apple).

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