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Asked by anon-193419 to Morwenna, Jamal, iainstaniland, Heidi, Emma, Carl on 11 Nov 2018.
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Heidi Gardner answered on 11 Nov 2018:
A fruit is the seed-bearing part of the flowering plant, so by definition all fruits have to have seeds. If you see fruits labelled as ‘seedless’ in the supermarket – grapes for example – then these have been bred to have seeds to small that you don’t notice them. They do still have seeds, but they’re really small.
Basically, if something has seeds then it’s probably a fruit. Vegetables are all other plant parts, such as roots, leaves and stems.
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Emma Crawford answered on 11 Nov 2018:
The job of fruit is to help the seeds of the plant to be scattered over a large area. That’s why fruits are often sweet and tasty – the plant wants birds and animals to eat the fruit and take the seed with them, so they can be spread out over a wide area. So the fruit is like a reward for helping the plant spread out its seeds.
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Iain Staniland answered on 12 Nov 2018:
As Heidi said bearing seeds is the definition of a fruit!
The so called “Seedless fruits” you see have been genetically engineered by us humans by taking cuttings and cross breeding plants with normal fruits. Obviously these cultivated plants are now reliant on humans to reproduce.
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