What are called vegetables?

Table of Contents:

1. What are called vegetables?
2. How do you say eat fruits and vegetables in Spanish?
3. What are vegetables and examples?
4. What are vegetables easy definition?
5. Which fruit is a vegetable?
6. Why is a bell pepper a fruit?
7. Is Pineapple a fruit?
8. Why is a cucumber a fruit?

What are called vegetables?

Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. The original meaning is still commonly used and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including the flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds.

How do you say eat fruits and vegetables in Spanish?

Comes frutas y verduras?: Do you eat fruit and vegetables? Sí, como muchas frutas y verduras: Yes, I eat a lot of fruit and vegetables. ¿Qué frutas comes?

What are vegetables and examples?

The leaf and leafstalk vegetables include brussels sprouts, cabbage, celery, lettuce, rhubarb, and spinach. Among the bulb vegetables are garlic, leeks, and onions. The head, or flower, vegetables include artichokes, broccoli, and cauliflower.

What are vegetables easy definition?

A vegetable is the edible portion of a plant. Vegetables are usually grouped according to the portion of the plant that is eaten such as leaves (lettuce), stem (celery), roots (carrot), tubers (potato), bulbs (onion) and flowers (broccoli).

Which fruit is a vegetable?

By those standards, seedy outgrowths such as apples, squash and, yes, tomatoes are all fruits, while roots such as beets, potatoes and turnips, leaves such as spinach, kale and lettuce, and stems such as celery and broccoli are all vegetables.

Why is a bell pepper a fruit?

Bell peppers are sometimes grouped with less pungent pepper varieties as "sweet peppers". While they are fruits—botanically classified as berries—they are commonly used as a vegetable ingredient or side dish.

Is Pineapple a fruit?

A pineapple is neither a pine nor an apple, but a fruit consisting of many berries that have grown together. This also means that Pineapples are not a single fruit, but a group of berries that have fused together. The technical term for this is a “multiple fruit” or a “collective fruit”.

Why is a cucumber a fruit?

The botanical classification: Cucumbers are fruit. A botanical fruit would have at least one seed and grow from the flower of the plant. With this definition in mind, cucumbers are classified as fruit because they contain tiny seeds in the middle and grow from the flower of the cucumber plant.