Fruits and vegetables are not just boring things that you have to eat! There are loads of amazing things about them that you can learn about. Here are 10 fun facts about fruits and vegetables.
- Tomatoes are a fruit.
It was a very popular question throughout the world: Are tomatoes a fruit or vegetable? Many people voted for fruit and some for vegetable. Well, it is a fruit in real life! If you thought it was a fruit, congratulate yourself now! If you thought vegetable, sorry but you are wrong!
- Strawberries are not really a berry.
Just because it has the word ‘berry’ in its name doesn’t make it a berry. Berries are actually fruits with their seeds on the inside and a strawberry has 200 seeds that it holds on the outside. Those are the small white spots on the strawberry skin. But don’t worry, there isn’t a strawberry plant growing inside you. Strawberries are still juicy and tasty!
- A pomegranate can hold 1000 seeds.
Did you know that a pomegranate can hold anywhere between 600-1000 seeds? If you like pomegranate and love the seeds, you have a lot of seeds to eat!
- Potatoes were the first vegetable in space.
Back in October 1995, NASA and a university worked together to grow the first vegetable in space, a potato!
- Durian is the stinkiest fruit in the world.
Durian grows on the durio tree and people have often said it smells of rotten eggs, garbage and sweaty socks! That is disgusting! Probably don’t want to try it, do you?
- Pumpkins and cucumbers are classified as fruits too.
Some people think that cucumbers are a vegetable and also pumpkins! Pumpkins are sometimes eaten as a vegetable but they are actually a fruit. So are cucumbers! Bet you thought a cucumber was a vegetable and a pumpkin was a fruit!
- The part of a broccoli that people eat are actually undeveloped flower buds.
The dark green dots that look like forests on the broccoli are actually flower buds. That is quite amazing! They are also part of the cabbage family!
- Cranberries can bounce.
Go and buy some ripe cranberries if possible and try to bounce them! See how high they can bounce! Remember that only ripe cranberries bounce, not unripe ones.
- Olives, eggplant and capsicum are classified as fruit as well.
Lots of people thought that capsicum, eggplant and olives were vegetables. Well, they are all fruits! There are a lot more fruits in the world than we’d expect there’d be!
