[Amazing] 25 Sweet Facts About Fruits That You Never Knew
Fruits just make life better. They are usually sweet, refreshing, and tasty. But what exactly is a fruit? Tomatoes are fruits. So are cucumbers and avocados. But you don’t typically consider them to fall in that category. As it turns out, scientifically speaking, a fruit is simply the part of a plant or tree that contains seeds. So, if it has seeds, it’s a fruit. But then what is a vegetable? Well, “vegetable” is actually not a scientific term at all. It’s a culinary term. This means that a proper scientist would divide the parts of a plant into fruits, roots, stalk, leaves, etc. while your grandma would most likely divide the plant into fruits and vegetables (the fruits being the sweet part and the vegetables being everything else). So, now you know all about fruits and vegetables and you can impress your friends with your new found knowledge. But get ready to learn a lot more. Because if you come from the west, there are probably hundreds, if not thousands of very tasty fruits that you have never heard of. Today we’re going to dive into a world of tasty goodness with 25 sweet facts about fruits that you never knew.
Apples, peaches, and raspberries are all members of the rose family
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Oranges actually have less vitamin C than many other fruits including guava, lychee, kiwi, strawberries, and pineapples
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Coffee beans are actually not beans. They are fruit pits
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Grapes explode if you put them in the microwave
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The tomato is the world's most popular fruit
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Grapefruits have been known to lethally interact with certain prescription medications
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Cucumbers are actually fruits
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The color orange was named after the fruit and not vice versa. Before that it was called "geoluread", meaning "yellow-red".
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The Coco De Mer Palm tree is responsible for the world's largest fruit which weighs around 42 kg (92 lbs).
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Pomology is the study of fruits
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So you already know that tomatoes and cucumbers are fruits, but did you know that scientifically speaking, beans, avocados, sunflower seeds, lettuce leaves, and broccoli buds are too? This is because a fruit is the part of a plant that develops from a flower and contains the seeds. The other parts of the plant are considered vegetables
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Did you enjoy these fruit facts? Then you might also enjoy these 25 strange fruits. Some of them you probably have never seen before.
Why do we call so many fruits vegetables then? Because from a culinary standpoint vegetables have come to be considered savory (in general) and fruits are considered to be sweet (in general)
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Of course, this rule doesn't always hold so sometimes savory fruits like tomatoes are labeled as vegetables because this is a more useful (and less accurate) way of dividing up our ingredients
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Enough of the terminology, did you know that tomatoes have more genes than humans?
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There there are trees called "fruit salad trees" that can sprout 3 to 7 different fruits...on THE SAME tree. This is accomplished via grafting two or more plants so that they grow and function as a single plant.
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Some Japanese farmers grow square watermelons
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There are over 7000 different type of apples grown all over the world
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And humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas?
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Pineapples and bananas are actually berries
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Once again, this boils down to terminology. In everyday lingo, berries are usually small, round, and juicy. Scientifically, however, berries are fruits produced from the ovary of a single flower in which the outer layer of the ovary wall develops into an edible, fleshy portion.
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Fruits don't die when they are harvested. They continue to respond to their environment long afterwards.
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Eating miracle fruit will make very sour food taste sweet (at least for a few hours)
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Not all oranges are orange. If the weather isn't cold enough, the chlorophyll in the skin doesn't break down and the fruit stays green
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So you probably don't really care about the scientific definition of a berry right? But just to amaze your friends, besides bananas and pineapples, other berries include grapes, eggplants, and cucumbers
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Bananas are slightly radioactive
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