Are Peppers a Fruit or a Vegetable?

A question you may want to know the answer to as it may come up in a quiz one day – Are peppers a fruit or a vegetable? It’s like the question is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? Here we will look into the logic’s and help you get to your answer.

Fruit and vegetables have a lot in common – they are both extremely healthy. They can contain all the nutrients that you need to stay healthy from vitamins, fiber. You need these nutrients from the fruit and vegetables to help you function and stay fit and healthy. We know that fruit and vegetable help your organs function correctly and also help your skin. Obviously Fruit is mainly eaten raw and vegetables are often used for cooking.

There are many fruits and vegetables that people think are either a fruit or a vegetable and get confused around. This is why people ask is a pepper a vegetable or a fruit?. Fruit is classed as the sugary edible parts of a plant. Where as a vegetable is classed as for all other edible parts of a plant. With a pepper we will only eat the fruit part we do not eat the seeds or the core on a pepper. People still class peppers as vegetables though so this is where the difference in opinion comes from.

We tend to class the pepper as a vegetable here in the UK and the rest of the world. Whenever you would go shopping you would not see peppers in the fruit department they would always be found with the vegetables on the shelf. So most peoples perception is that they are a vegetable.

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Does a gardener think peppers are a fruit

From a gardeners view on if peppers are a fruit or a vegetable is that everything that grows on a herbaceous plant is a vegetable and everything that is grown on a woody plant is a fruit. So if you ask a gardener if a pepper is a fruit they will say no it’s a vegetable as it’s grown on a herbaceous plant. Another point a gardener will put across is that fruit grows on a tree that does not die off at the end of the year – as pepper plants die at the end of harvest they only produce once then die.

Does a botanist think peppers are a fruit

If you asked a botanist the question if a pepper is a fruit or vegetable they would say a fruit because the produce grows the seeds on the inside rather than vegetables growing the seeds on the outside of the plant.

Does a chef think peppers are a fruit

If you were to ask a chef the same question they would say a vegetable as everything served in the starter and main course is a vegetable and all the deserts are classed as a fruit.

Do I think peppers are a fruit

My personal opinion if a pepper is a fruit or a vegetable is that is actually a fruit. I believe that all fruits grow there seeds on the inside of them and vegetables set the seeds on the outside of the produce.

I hope you have come to a conclusion and decided what your opinion is of a pepper. Let me know in the comments if you think pepper is a fruit or a vegetable.

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