Is pumpkin fruit?

[Rokien]

That would be amazing O.o

[weeble]

think pumpkin is in the squash family. on a weird note i love eating pumpkin alot. outside the obvious pumpkin pie, i make it into a soup and also fry it.. very yums. think people to used to the thought they are just for decorations outside on Halloween lol. taste way better then real squash to me.

[Magnesium02]

From what I recall, a fruit is a plant part that develops from a fertilised flower and contains seeds held within some kind of pulp/flesh. In terms of human reproduction, a fruit is basically a plant placenta, meant to provide moisture and nutrients for the seeds to germinate and grow into plants. Some fruits have additional properties in the cases where the seeds require specific conditions to grow (i.e. they attract a certain kind of bird who eats the fruit and emits the seeds in a far off location, or they attract other animals to feed on them as the seed cases require the digestive acids of that creature to weaken the shell so the seed can grow).

Fruits are then sub-classed into different groups. The most common fruits are berries, which are defined as fruits usually containing more than one seed contained in flesh derived form a single flower ovary. So apples, watermelon, tomatoes and pumkpkins are all berries. Stone fruits like plums, peaches and mangos that contain only one seed are a sub-class of berry. Citris also fall into a sub-class due to something about having a thick indedible skin. Blueberries and gooseberries are berries, but a lot of the other fruits that we call berries aren't berries. Things like raspberries, blackberries and mullberries are actually a different kind of fruit as they consists of lots of seeds held singly within pockets of juice grouped together to make the fruit. Then there are 'false' berries like bananas and strawberries. Strawberries are not normal berries, nor are they fruits like blackberries as they contain the 'seeds' on the outside. Normally a fruit is made when the ovary inside the flower is fertilised with pollen and each ovary makes one fruit. With a strawberry what we take for seeds on the outside are atually the plants ovaries each one containing a seed. It is a fruit, just kind of in its own class. The banana is also a unique berry sometimes called a false berry depending on how you class fruits as they don't grow from a tree or vine, but a herb, and its flowering/ovary structure is different to standard fruit flowers.


... FML. Why the hell do i remember all this random junk that has no use, but my memory fails me when it comes to simple everyday things.

[Mirana]

eh??? for real??? are you kidding me??? Isn't pumpkin a vegetable?

[Eruantien]

eh??? for real??? are you kidding me??? Isn't pumpkin a vegetable?

just as much as a tomato is a vegetable

[Gramul]

just as much as a tomato is a vegetable

I don't really get this.
Tomato has always screamed fruit to me.
It's red, juicy and sweet. What's so vegetable about that?

[Eruantien]

I don't really get this.
Tomato has always screamed fruit to me.
It's red, juicy and sweet. What's so vegetable about that?

ya exactly, I was using it as an example of other fruit people think is a vegetable

[Magnesium02]

There are 2 'classifications'

Botanically - Pumpkin is a Fruit
Cullinarily - Pumpkin is a Vegetable.

[Baxter]

There are 2 'classifications'

Botanically - Pumpkin is a Fruit
Cullinarily - Pumpkin is a Vegetable.

culinarians don't make classifications, they cook. Pumpkin is a fruit. bananas are infertile fruits, just like breadfruit.

[Magnesium02]

Tomatoes are used in a lot of savoury dishes which is why it, like pumpkins are sometimes called vegetables. Both can be used to make sweet dishes, but are labeled vegetables in common culture.

There is a saying:
Knowledge is knowing a tomato/pumpkin is a Fruit
Widsom is knowing not to put it into a fruit salad.