Incorporating sources - worksheet Everybody knows the difference between a fruit and a vegetable, right? Fruits are tempting and scrumptious. Adam and Eve were unable to resist one, and paid the price. Vegetables don't pack the kin of punch. Vegetables, traditionally, are the stuff that's good for you but dull to eat Our word fruit comes to us from the Latin fructus or frui , meaning to enjoy; vegetable, a more solid commonsensical kind of word , comes from vegetabilis, which means growing (as in plants ). Much of the enjoyable appeal of fruits lies in their irresistible sweetness; most temperate-zone fruits contain about 10 - 15 percent sugar by weight, and tropical fruits, by and large, are even sweeter So what's the real difference between fruit and vegetables, and is it always easy to tell? The classic vegetable/fruit story is the tale of the tomato. The question of whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable actually made it all the way to the United States Supreme court! In an 1893 case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that, for the purposes of taxation, tomatoes are vegetables. The Supreme Court relied on the fact that tomatoes are usually as a vegetables since they're normally served with dinner and not as dessert . The ruling , though , only applied to tax law and did not attempt to reclassify tomatoes scientifically. Other court decisions on plants and fruits, including onions and beans, continued the tradition of judicial intervention. Finally in 2001, the European Union declared carrots, sweet potatoes, and the now thoroughly confused tomatoes all to be fruits Another path to official recognition is being selected as the official state vegetable or fruit (along with flowers, birds, etc.). Here also the tomato's record is mixed. Two American states, Tennessee and Ohio, have it as the state fruit, one Arkansas, as both the fruit and vegetable, and another, Louisiana as the state vegetable Source: Rupp, R. & Fey, T. (2015, February 9). The great tomato debate. National Geographic 252 (6), 78 . (- 89 . ( the selection is from pp . 81-82 To a botanist, a fruit is an entity that develops from the fertilized ovary (which bears the plant equivalent of eggs) of a flower. This means that many things usually considered as vegetables, including tomatoes squash , pumpkins , cucumbers , peppers , eggplants , corn kernels , and bean and pea pods , are all classified as fruits; along with traditional fruits like apples, pears, peaches, apricots, melons and mango Scientists have no specific definition for vegetables, but botanically it is any edible part of a plant that doesn't happen to be a frui, as in leaves (spinach, lettuce, cabbage), roots (carrots, beets, turnips), stem ( (asparagus), tubers (potatoes), bulbs (onions), and flowers (cauliflower and broccoli Though scientists define fruits as the parts of a plant that bear seeds, there is a cultural and

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