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TIL That eggplants, tomatoes and avocados are botanically classified as berries but that a strawberry is not a berry at all. (carnegiemuseums.org)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Bananas are also berries, with banana trees being really tall bushes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Peppers, bananas, and watermelons also fit the botanical definition of a "berry" - they're simple fruits, that produce seeds internally (or at least were supposed to).

While in the culinary definition, it's basically... it's small, a fruit (in the culinary sense), and you'd make a sweet pie out of it? Or a jam.

[–] SWIM 1 points 1 year ago

Peppers are also berries l, aka hot peppers are just berries