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The rumors are true: Vegetables aren’t real — that is, in botany, anyway.

While the term fruit is recognized botanically as anything that contains a seed or seeds, vegetable is actually a broad umbrella term for many types of edible plants.

You might think you know what carrots and beets are. Carrots, beets and other vegetables that grow in the ground are actually the true roots of plants. Lettuce and spinach are the leaves, while celery and asparagus are the stems, and greens such as broccoli, artichokes and cauliflowers are immature flowers, according to Steve Reiners, a professor of horticulture at Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

As for produce that grow from flowers, such as peppers and tomatoes, the hot-debated crops are botanically classified as fruits, Reiners added. Cucumbers, squash, eggplant and avocados are also classified as fruit due to their anatomy, according to the European Food Information Council.

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 37 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Stop letting Neil Degrasse-Tyson write food articles.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago

Neil Degrasse-Tyson Foods kelly

[–] deforestgump@hexbear.net 30 points 6 months ago
[–] Angel@hexbear.net 25 points 6 months ago (5 children)

People using semantics to be pretentious is one of my biggest pet peeves.

wELl AckchYuAlLy, We COLLoquIAlLY usE ThIs WORD TO Mean "x", but by DICtIOnARy deFinItIon, iT ACTUAllY mEAns "y", I'm SO smart I BEt YOU didN't KnOw tHat 🤓

The irony is that people think that this kind of pedantry makes them intelligent or, at the very least, someone with a neat, obscure fact up their sleeve, but being unable to understand basic and common uses of words because you're so hung up on what a textbook says is the exact opposite of intelligence.

"Vegetable," for the most part, is a culinary term, so bringing botany into the equation in a discussion about vegetables as food is just silliness.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And this is why pluto will always be my favorite planet

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

It's as much of a planet as the moon is made of cheese

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

People using semantics to be pretentious is one of my biggest pet peeves.

Say no to anti-semantism on Hexbear.

[–] Angel@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Anti-semantic? But I condom hummus

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Condom hummus sounds like something inmates would make in prison.

[–] D61@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Sounds like something you'd need to see somebody to get a prescription cream to fix..

[–] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

This article is about an interesting biological fact, I don't think its about being pedantic.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] neo@hexbear.net 7 points 6 months ago

...while babies and young children rising up like never before!

[–] Eris235@hexbear.net 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Annoying "um, actually" headline. 'Real' answer buried in the first sentence. Yeah, its journalism time.

I am once again asking people not to use botanical terms in culinary settings, and vice versa. Its fine the the food definition of vegetable is vague. Its fine that tomato is a vegetable, when talking about food, or a fruit if talking about plant science.

[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 2 points 6 months ago

Also mushrooms are neither plants nor animals, but they're culinary vegetables which is fine

[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

ooooooooooooooh ooooooooooooooh ooooooooooooooh its so fucking joever

[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago

Forget science, what is a fruit and vegetable is vibes only

Vegetable:

Broccoli

Carrots

Tomato

Avocado

Peppers

Cucumber

Squash

Eggplant

Fruits:

Apple

Mango

Oranges

Watermelon

Non binary:

Banana

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 4 points 6 months ago