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Vegetables?

Ok I need an answer quick! My boss at work wants to know the difference between fruit and Veg! Then he wants to know the difference between surface veg, root veg and other families. Then we want to know what groups veg all belong to! I.E pumkin???? what is it lol. This is major important! We are bored and need to know!!!

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1. veg can be cooked and served as a main meal, fruits usually are eaten during dessert...for the others just look in google sorry can't help much
2. if your put sugar on fruit its yummy in your tummy, if you put sugar on vegtables its icky. get it??
3. Fruit is the ripened ovary of the plant. Fruit is actually the sweet, ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant. A vegetable, in contrast, is an herbaceous plant cultivated for an edible part (seeds, roots, stems, leaves, bulbs, tubers, or non sweet fruits). So, to be really nitpicky, a fruit could be a vegetable, but a vegetable could not be a fruit. The difference between a surface veg and root is um, ONE GROWS UNDER GROUND, LOL and you're eating the root of the plant. Pumpkin is a gourd.
4. Here's a straightforward answer from a UK science site: "Fruits are or contain seeds, they develop from the ovaries. Nuts, olives, tomatoes, peas and runner beans are all examples of fruits, as well as the obvious ones like apples, oranges and grapes. Vegetables are non-seed containing plant matter. They include leaves, such as cabbage, lettuce or watercress; roots, e.g. carrots or beetroot; bulbs, like onions, and tubers such as potatoes." "What is the difference between fruits and vegetables?" ScienceNet http://www.sciencenet.org.uk/database/Biology/9608/b00616d.html And here's a question-and-answer web page with a similar description of the difference: "A fruit is the matured ovary of a flower, containing the seed. ... A vegetable is considered to be edible roots, tubers, stems, leaves, fruits, seeds, flower clusters, and other softer plant parts." This page also explains that a grain is a fruit, while nuts are a more complicated matter. "What's the difference between fruits and vegetables?", SDSTAFF Terey Straight Dope Science Advisory Board The Straight Dope http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mveggie.html For further information, you can consult these web pages from Cornell University: Q: What is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable (or Is a tomato a fruit or vegetable)?" Cornell University: Department of Horticulture http://www.hort.cornell.edu/extension/question.html#1 - - - And FYI, a pumpkin is a gourd. :)
5. A tomato is a fruit. Pumpkin is from the gourd family, like squash are. Root veggies grow in the ground. Surface vehetables grow on top of the ground.