He can turn the produce section of a grocery store into Botany 101, ... we're eating ripened ovaries with seeds inside. With true vegetables, no sexually reproductive parts are being consumed.

We differentiate between fruits and vegetables depending on which bits of the plant we eat.If we eat the part derived from the ovaries or other reproductive tissue, we call it a fruit, explains ...

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OK, in the world of botany, a fruit is the structure that bears the seeds of a plant. It is formed in the plant's flower. In the center, the female parts of the flower include the ovary.

In order to be considered a berry, a fruit must develop from a flower that has one ovary. (Image credit: udaix via Shutterstock) The same layered structure appears in other berries, including the ...