Is An Avocado a Fruit Or a Vegetable?

Fruit.

Botanically, it’s a fruit — specifically a berry (because it develops from a flower and contains a seed).

A fruit is the flowering/seed producing product of a plant - hence a tomato is a fruit.

An avocado is also the reproductive element of the plant, so it also a fruit.

Fruit from me too

Fruit.

As are cucumbers, peppers, courgettes, aubergines etc.

The way I was taught about fruits and vegetables is that vegetables are roots leaves and stems. Fruits contain a seed either inside or on the outside like strawberries.

Don’t know, don’t care……don’t like them!

MiniMoon

The way I was taught about fruits and vegetables is that vegetables are roots leaves and stems. Fruits contain a seed either inside or on the outside like strawberries.

Yes.

Technically, it is a fruit. It can be eaten either sweet or savoury - what that makes it in culinary terms, I leave you to find out.

Btw, I was about 15 when I first ate it as a savoury. previously, we’d fill the hole left by the stone with sugar, squeeze half a lime into that, and spoon it all out!

Also, “knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is omitting it from a fruit salad” 🤣😆

It develops from a flower and has a seed so yes it meets the biological definition of being a fruit.

How about rhubarb whilst on the subject. We eat it as a fruit but it’s a vegetable - a stem to be precise.

Allira

Fruit.

As are cucumbers, peppers, courgettes, aubergines etc.

Wow - cucumbers as fruit? There's another revelation for moi.

But if you have a Lild coupon for a free veg item, avocado, tomato and cucumber counts as veg.

Lidl, not Lild! oops

They sell it with tomatoes here . A savoury fruit? I use them instead of butter when they are in season, no cholesterol.

nanna8

They sell it with tomatoes here . A savoury fruit? I use them instead of butter when they are in season, no cholesterol.

Shepards should be available next month!

grandMattie

Also, “knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is omitting it from a fruit salad” 🤣😆

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And avocado.

A single seeded fruit and it's existed for about 10 million years on Earth .
Once eaten by now extinct mammals in one gulp !
Enough to being tears to your eyes.
Remember Victor Meldrew collecting his haemorrhoid cream in the chemist ?

I was taught anything that grows on a tree is a fruit, if it grows in the ground it's a vegetable

It's well known as a fruit, the vast consumption of which is preventing young people from getting on the housing ladder, along with Netflix of course!

keepcalmandcavachon

It's well known as a fruit, the vast consumption of which is preventing young people from getting on the housing ladder, along with Netflix of course!

Nails and phones as well.

If it contains seeds or a stone then it's a fruit.

Botanicaly a fruit is any part of a plant that contains a seed
Vegetable fruits include Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Aubergines, Sweetcorn, Pumpkins, Squash, Peppers, Chillies and more