![]() ![]() The thing is, vegetables do not exist as a botanical category. You’ve probably noticed that about half the berries on the list above are actually vegetables. Read Also: When Are Gooseberries Ripe ? Some vegetables are actually berries Note that peas, beans, carrots, cauliflower aren’t berries. This list is pretty strange, and it might just sound like it’s entirely made up.īear with me, because there’s a very good reason those food items are on this list, and we’ll get to it in a minute. It, too, is a berry, along with the starfruit and dragon fruit. And to top things off, we should not forget about the kiwi fruit.All citrus fruits are berries as well, so that includes oranges, lemons, mandarins, clementines, grapefruits, kumquats, limes, pomelo and any other variations.The beloved avocado is a berry too, though some may get technical and call it s drupe.So gooseberries, elderberries, cranberries, crowberry, Oregon grape, blueberry, bearberry and holly are berries as well. ![]() Bananas are also berries, as are grapes and pretty much all currant variants – blackcurrant, red currants, white currants – and its cousins.The fruit/berry of the potato is a berry, but is not edible. Please note that the potato itself is not a berry, since what we eat is the root. All nightshade ‘fruits’ are actually berries as well, starting with tomatoes, pepper, bell peppers, and includes potatoes.So cucumber, courgette/zucchini, pumpkin, eggplant, watermelon, honeymelon and other such …vegetables ? are actually berries. All relatives of the cucumber are a berry.So hold onto your hats, this list of true berries is all over the place. What we normally think of as berries doesn’t apply to everything on this list.Īnd to complicate matters even more, nearly everything we see at a farmer’s market is technically a fruit, including vegetables. This is mostly because berries are really all over the place. The list is long and honestly kind of surprising. 3 Final thoughts What fruits are berries ? ![]()
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