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This list of fruits includes avocados, but not olives - both are arguably fruits. There are more: https://www.treehugger.com/vegetables-are-actually-fruits-4857

• pattle 3y ago
  Sorry I did exclude those fruits which people typically mistake as vegetables like tomatoes. Otherwise the list would have been too long.
  • School-Cotton 3y ago
    It is not a “mistake”, it’s just two separate meanings of the word fruit. I find it annoying that some technical field assigned a meaning to a term that had already in wide use for hundreds of years and then people started claiming that people using it in the original way are “wrong”.
    • NeoTar 3y ago
      It’s surprisingly common. A more extreme version is what I call the Stonehenge cycle: - humanity names something, e.g. Stonehenge, - humanity finds other, somewhat similar things, and names them similarly, e.g. Woodhenge, Seahenge, - people studying the field realise that the term has become so broad as to lose any meaning, and attempt to create a tighter definition of what a thing is - e.g. a ‘henge’ is ‘ a roughly circular or oval-shaped bank with an internal ditch surrounding a central flat area’ - the original thing no longer qualifies under the new definition, e.g. Stonehenge is not a ‘henge’.
    • thaumasiotes 3y ago
      It's weird for olives to be excluded though. They've never been considered "vegetables" as opposed to "fruits".
• economicalidea 3y ago
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  • skribanto 3y ago
    Aren’t fruits only plants which contain seeds? Like a celery would not be a fruit
    • dnlzro 3y ago
      Mostly. There are some “seedless” fruits (bananas, grapes, etc) which have been bred to be defective, or have become defective because of some natural mutation. [1] There’s also fruits like coconuts, which don’t have seeds like we normally think of them. The coconut we eat after removing outer layers (exocarp, mesocarp) is a seed. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenocarpy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenocarpy
  • dnlzro 3y ago
    Spinach, onions, celery, broccoli, bok choy, carrots… These are certainly not fruits. Vegetable is a culinary term, but so is fruit. Outside the context of a botany classroom, you’re going to have a hard time finding people who respond to the question “Is cucumber a vegetable or a fruit?” with the answer “fruit, of course!”
  • Chris2048 3y ago
    Isn't "which is best" a culinary distinction? Comparing sweets fruit to savoury might not make sense in this context, though this is one instance were we can compare apples to oranges..