Vegetables and fruits are any part of a plant consumed by humans.
Vegetables are plants, while fruits grow from the flowers of plants.

Carrots Improve Your Vision


Carrots can improve your vision if your body is deficient in vitamin A, but the popularity of carrots has more to do with a food shortage during WWII than beta-carotene.

All Fruits Come From Flowers


All Fruits Come From Flowers

All fruits come from flowers, but not all flowers become fruits. Fruits are typically derived from the ovaries of a flower and contain seeds.

Eating Tomatoes Helps Prevent Sunburn


Can Tomatoes Act as a Sunscreen?

Tomatoes contain lycopene, which may help protect your skin from UV damage, this means eating tomatoes may work as a natural sunblock to prevent sunburn.

A Banana is a Berry


A Banana is a Berry

Botanically a banana is both a fruit and a berry which grows on large herbs (not trees).

Bananas Grow on Trees


Bananas don’t grow on banana trees, rather they grow on the world’s largest perennial herb which can grow up to 25 feet with leaves of up to 9 feet.

A Tomato is a Fruit


A Tomato is a Fruit

A tomato is botanically a berry and therefore a fruit, but politically and culinarily it’s treated as a vegetable. It’s accurate to call a tomato a berry, a fruit, and/or a vegetable, depending on context.