FRUITS vs VEGETABLES

 What’s a fruit?

• They are the sour/sweet seed containing parts of the plant/vegetable that are edible either in the raw state or being cooked.
• From a Botanical standard point, a fruit is a seed bearing part of a flowering plant thats developed from the ovary after flowering.plants have to disseminate seeds and they do so by producing fruits.

What’s a vegetable?

• Vegetable may vary simply because of the many parts of a plant consumed as food worldwide – roots, tubers, bulbs, corns, stems, leaf stems, leaf sheaths, leaves, buds, flowers, fruits, and seeds.

Fruits versus Vegetables

Seeds

• First of all, fruits have seeds inside them… most of the time (some fruits, like strawberries, have seeds on the outside). On the other hand, most vegetables do not contain seeds. That’s probably the most prominent point of distinction between the two.
• Fruits are basically the ripened ovaries of flowering plants, whereas vegetables are edible parts of a plant.

Role in reproductive cycles

• The seeds of a fruit play an important role in the reproductive cycles of a plant
• Fruits play a major role in the reproductive cycles of their plant, whereas vegetables do not.

Taste (sweetness)

• While fruits are usually sweet with bitter seeds, vegetables sometimes have just a hint of sweetness, or are absolutely bland when consumed raw.

Nutritional value

• Fruits and vegetables both have high nutritional value. However, you gain more calories when you consume fruits instead of vegetables. This is because fruits are sweet and therefore have a higher sugar content, which adds to the total calorie intake. However, there are a few starchy vegetables, like potatoes and beets, that also rank quite high in terms of calorie count.