What's the difference between fruits & vegetables?

Trigger warning: this video might cause an existential crisis of botanical proportions. Everything you think you know about fruits and vegetables will be called into question, but don't worry - the botanists have got your back.

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[Corporis]

I think that’s the first time I’ve ever heard “that shit’s crazy” in reference to broccoli. I LOL’d

[sarahroselli]

My high school health class LOVED watching this! We look forward to watching the video about broccoli and we hope you will make a video about different vegetables too!

[nubbiewubbie]

Almond trees: *Make fruits to disperse their seeds.*
Humans: *Ignore the fruits and eat the seeds.*
Almond trees: 👁️👄👁️

[JuliusUnique]

My definition of a fruit or vegetable: Does it taste good with Nutella?
Yes -> it's a fruit
No -> it's a vegetable

[apgtrock]

I love this! I learned more from this video than 2 years of horticulture classes in undergrad

[RachelleDavidson]

I just watched with my daughter to learn about vegetables. This is one of the most fun science channels i've seen on youtube....keep up the great work!

[christianelowsky]

Human anatomy is about a trillion times easier than plant anatomy, so this video rocks! Minor issue since you caught the apple thing, carpel does not equal pistil, a mistake that started in the 80's. Raspberries are an aggregate of many free pistils, each having only one carpel inside. Your apple started with one pistil with 5 carpels. If one wants simple, one goes into medicine. :)

[Ecotasia]

This was really interesting, have not heard about all the berry definitions. Botany is a topic I really need to learn more about.

[atifbhore]

I wish I learnt Botany this way in school, it would have made my life so much easier! Great video!

[abegailvillasor]

I'm studying plant biology and it's so fun to watch this kind of videos. Thank youu for sharing this and I hope one day I could also share knowledge to the youth, especially in terms of plant biology and inspires them too.

[ScienceSketches]

What a delightful video! I am VERY excited for the broccoli sequel.

[adammasimpson]

I gosh! I really enjoyed this one! Wow, you're so good at being engaging. I've been hesitant on making true science videos for a while but I think I get your process. Thanks for making this video! You're very inspiring.

[lialvin]

I love your video so much! Support from a Hong Kong undergrad!

[janettcordero]

Perfect video to watch before my third exam in science of gardening

[ГригорийДорошенко-ев]

What a great video on the topic! Thank you!

[foodforthought]

Very nice and educational video. I enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing it. Stay connected.

[zXz]

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[Pritiguptar]

Thank you for making this video and I liked it most and it is very helpful for all.

[MrMikkyn]

Wow fruit knowledge is so intense. I just went down the fruit rabbit hole

[PeterDB]

THANK YOU!

Key points that almost EVERY OTHER VIDEO GETS WRONG but you got right:

Vegetable is not a thing in botany - it is strictly a culinary term
Fruit has 2 definitions, one we use in common language and kitchen (culinary) that pertains to mostly sweet plants we have for desert and a definition that refers to the structure of a plant (very generally speaking, if it has seeds, it's a fruit of a plant). By the way, same is true for nuts - almonds are nuts culinarily speaking but scientifically speaking it's the seed of a fruit.
Tomato is technically both, a fruit and a vegetable. From a botanical perspective, it is a fruit of a plant that has seeds and is used for reproduction. Culinarily speaking it is a vegetable that you put in a savory dish or a non-fruit salad.

Fun fact: Russian has 2 different terms for both concepts of fruit. "Frukt" is a fruit you would put in a fruit salad, whereas "plod" is a fruit of a plant that has seeds and is used for plants reproduction. So a tomato is definitely not a "frukt" you eat for dessert, but is absolutely a "plod" (fruit of a plant).

Many channels describe vegetables "scientifically" as any edible part of a plant that isn't a fruit, but that is WRONG WRONG WRONG. "Edible to humans" is a very specific concept that isn't useful in a general field of botany where they study plants (and not "how humans interact with plants"). Animals, for example, are not classified by whether they are edible to humans specifically because that is not useful information in understanding and classifying animals. They ARE classified, however, by whether other animals eat them OR whether an animal eats other animals or plants, or both. So if vegetables are edible parts of a plant that aren't a fruit then grass is a vegetable because cows and horses eat grass, and wood (stem of a tree) is a vegetable because termites eat it, but that clearly isn't the case, so vegetable is NOT a botanical term.