Are cucumbers a vegetable or a fruit?
• To be a fruit 🍉 🍎 the food must have seeds. So technically, a cucumber is a fruit. 🆒 • The same is true for a tomato 🍅, pumpkin 🎃, green beans, etc. • So what the heck are vegetables❓The other parts of plants! Leaves - kale Stems - celery Roots - potato or beets Flowers - broccoli • #NoshItFoodFacts #HaveAPlant ⏩ remember, September is National Fruits & Veggies Month so join me in the #HaveAPlantPledge #NFVM2019 © Elieke Kearns, PhD, RD and Nosh.it Food Facts, 2021. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this content and/or photos without express and written permission from this site’s author is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Elieke Kearns, PhD, RD and Nosh.it Food Facts with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.
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