10 Vegetables That Are Actually Fruits

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Zee Media Bureau
Jul 19, 2023

Corn

The fruit of the sweet corn plant is the corn kernel, a type of fruit called a caryopsis.

Tomatoes

Yes, most get it wrong. Tomato is rather used as a vegetable ingredient while cooking when it's actually a fruit.

Avocado

It is large and unusually oily fruit. Sometimes also referred to as an alligator pear or avocado pear, it is botanically a large berry containing a single large seed.

Olives

According to Wikipedia, the tree and its fruit give their name to the Oleaceae plant family, which also includes species such as lilac, jasmine, forsythia, and the true ash tree. The olive's fruit, also called an 'olive', is of major agricultural importance.

Okra

Okra or lady's finger is a flowering plant in the mallow family. It contains seeds, thus making it a fruit and not a vegetable.

Green beans and Peas

Green beans are classified as a type of fruit. The pea-pods are fruits that surround the seeds of the plant that are used to reproduce, the peas.

Eggplants

Eggplant, aubergine or brinjal is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae. Solanum melongena is grown worldwide for its edible fruit. It is a berry by botanical definition.

Cucumbers

Cucumber is a widely-cultivated creeping vine plant in the family Cucurbitaceae that bears cylindrical to spherical fruits, which are used as culinary vegetables.

Bitter gourds

Bitter melon, goya, bitter apple, bitter gourd, bitter squash, balsam-pear are tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean for its edible fruit.

Bell Peppers

The bell pepper is the fruit of plants in the Grossum Group of the species Capsicum annuum.

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