Is An Avocado a Fruit Or a Vegetable?

Surely sweetcorn is a cereal

I have a turmeric capsule every day. I'm seldom ill so I shall continue.
We sell turmeric in our community shop but it stains fingers badly so I stick to the capsules.
Is it one of my 5 a day?😅

No matter if avocados are fruit or vegetable, salads including rocket, grapefruit, walnuts, avocado, salatsauce, is served often here.

Ah well, easily googled!

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Turmeric is tidier!

Other picture is ginger

@riverwoman I think turmeric is a rhizome the same as ginger
If you see it it looks like a mini orange version of ginger

Some roots can reproduce vegetatively like potatoes and onions some can’t like carrots and turnip’s

Ginger is neither fruit nor vegetable. It's a root; I think it's termed a Rhizome is we want to be botanical. Garlic is a bulb, like an onion. I think turmeric is the bark of a tree similar to cinnamon. Although chillies are reportedly classified as vegetable, Grammaretto is correct in questioning this as they are definitely fruits. Peppers, jalapinos and chillies are all cultivars of the same plant. They demand a lot more gardening attention than some people might imagine as they are very sensitive to drought and they are very unhappy if the temperature remains above 25C [77F] at night; they express unhappiness by catching all kinds of diseases.

Buddleja

Interesting discussion. It seems that botanists are interested in what part of the plant we are dealing with but cooks are interested in whether it is sweet or savoury.

You can make a lovely chocolate mousse with avocados! 😀

Interesting discussion. It seems that botanists are interested in what part of the plant we are dealing with but cooks are interested in whether it is sweet or savoury.

What's a mushroom, out of interest?
The fruit of a fungus - be careful if you decide to pick your own!

Great to be properly enlightened! Thanks all you botanists on here.

I m on the till each week in our community shop. Vegetables and fruit are listed under separate headings and I was curious as to why ginger, garlic, turmeric and chillies are classed as vegetables.
I'll check avocados when I'm next in.

Mostly I have trouble with my alphabet so avocado should be with apples.

What's a mushroom, out of interest?

Avocado is a fruit. It grows on a tree. I know that as I have a few avocado trees in my garden. Can send pic. Avocados are unusual as they are one of the few fruits that do not ripen on the tree and need to be picked to ripen; unlike tomatoes, peppers, brinjals and grapes but the same as olives which also do not ripen on the tree

Fruit I think same as a tomato

Was taught at school if formed after plant flowers it's a fruit.

Avocado is botanically classified as a fruit because it develops from the flower's ovary and contains a seed. More specifically, it is considered a large, single-seeded berry.
While avocados are botanically fruits, they are often used in culinary contexts like vegetables due to their savory flavor profile and high fat content.

Unfortunately that's not how it works. Technically, a fruit comes from the flower of the plant or contains seeds how and where it grows doesn't matter. Peanuts are botanically a fruit yet they grow underground nowhere near trees. Strawberries don't grow on trees neither do grapes.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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 ?

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.

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!