Non-motoring > Do you know your fruit from your vegetables?	Miscellaneous
Thread Author: Dog	Replies: 26

Thu 20 Jun 13 08:21   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Dog

80% www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/10129729/Do-you-know-your-fruit-from-your-vegetables.html Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 08:48   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - L'escargot

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Thu 20 Jun 13 08:55   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Ambo

The test seems to rely on some technical criterion. What is it? Classifying an example on how it is used rather than on this criterion will give wrong answers. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 08:59   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Zero

80%, got me sweetcorn and okra wrong. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 10:23   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - CGNorwich

"80%, got me sweetcorn and okra wrong." Give yourself 90% Sweetcorn could be described as a fruit - as it says in the notes it is a grain like wheat or barley, but can also be classified as fruit (each kernel is an ovary). Okra or ladies fingers is about the only vegetable (OK I Know its a fruit!) that I don't like. Horrible slimy stuff. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 09:44   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Alanovich

50%. Bottom of the class so far. Potato wrong! I though that a tuber was different from vegetable, just as funghi is. Hey ho. Something new every day and all that. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 09:05   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - L'escargot

www.wisegeek.org/what-are-the-differences-between-fruits-and-vegetables.htm#slideshow Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 09:32   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - ToMoCo

70%. Sweetcorn, Okra and Aubergine wrong. If it has seeds it's a fruit? Last edited by: ToMoCo on Thu 20 Jun 13 at 09:32 Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 09:33   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - rtj70

90% - got sweetcorn wrong. I suppose I should have worked out it was neither a fruit or a vegetable. Certainly not a fruit and it can't be a veg can it. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 10:14   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Dog

>>90% - got sweetcorn wrong Well done you! - any advance on 90% (I doubt it) Um, I spelt doubt incorrectly at first (using a gh instead of the b for some strange reason) How can there be a b in the word dowt FFS! :o} Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 10:25   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - CGNorwich

Sorry Dog - got to claim 100% - Didn't you guys do O level biology? Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 11:27   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Dog

How about the fingers CG! :} Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 09:44   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - SteelSpark

So peapods are technically a fruit. Just goes to show that the technical definition of fruit vs vegetables, albeit interesting, is pretty pointless for everyday use. If the missus asked me to bring her some fruit back from the shop, I'd have a problem if I brought a bag of mangetout back with me. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 10:19   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Cliff Pope

I got potato wrong too. I Googled it and read enough to learn that potato is controversial. They want to include it in the 5 a day, ie vegetable, but technically it's a tuber. They didn't have banana - not a fruit, I believe it's a herb. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 10:23   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - SteelSpark

>> They didn't have banana - not a fruit, I believe it's a herb. Few people know that radishes are technically fish... Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 10:31   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - movilogo

Pure botanical definition, if it has seed then fruit else (i.e. other parts of plant) vegetable Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 11:29   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Dog

Cannabis must be a fruit 'cos it contains seeds. :o) Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 11:37   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Haywain

"Cannabis must be a fruit 'cos it contains seeds." But, tobacco is a vegetable! Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 11:44   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Cliff Pope

>> if it has seed then fruit >> else (i.e. other parts of plant) vegetable >> Has seed, or is seed? What are nuts ? Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 11:51   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Dog

>>What are nuts ? Gonads. :} Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 12:13   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - movilogo

.... has seed The seed itself is "seed". However, sometimes botanical definition is not followed in culinary definition - that's where it becomes confusing. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 10:38   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Crankcase

The controversial bit might be the "five a day" message... www.zoeharcombe.com/2012/03/five-a-day-the-truth/ Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 10:44   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - CGNorwich

Bananas are of course fruits. They have become seedless by selective breeding like clementines. The banana plant is a herb (herbaceous perennial) and not a tree as commonly described Last edited by: CGNorwich on Thu 20 Jun 13 at 10:45 Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 10:35   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - VxFan

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Thu 20 Jun 13 10:58   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Mapmaker

90%, but by any normal standard I got 100%. Sweetcorn is a fruit; the author doesn't know what he's talking about. Wheat is a fruit too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caryopsis Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 11:40   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - Dog

So are barley, maize, millet, rice, and wheat then in that case. Reply to this message | Report message

Thu 20 Jun 13 11:54   Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? - zippy

Some wag once commented that "Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad." Reply to this message | Report message