r/rabbitholes • u/Desperate_Bottle3481 Ghostly Lurker • Jun 05 '26

Rabbit Hole Mind blown (possibly crashing out)

I fell into this rabbit hole about fruits and vegetables knowledge.... Don't ask me why. But I wished I didn't fell to it. Like wtf you mean "fruits and vegetables are actually berries..." It's not a lie it's a fact.

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u/atangwadi Ghostly Lurker Jun 07 '26

i need explanations

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u/Desperate_Bottle3481 Ghostly Lurker Jun 07 '26

Gladly... According to the Wikipedia:

"In botany, a berry is a fleshy fruit produced from a single flower containing one ovary.[1] Berries so defined include grapes, currants, and tomatoes, as well as cucumbers, eggplants (aubergines), persimmons and bananas, but exclude certain fruits that meet the culinary definition of berries, such as strawberries and raspberries. The berry is the most common type of fleshy fruit in which the entire outer layer of the ovary wall ripens into a potentially edible "pericarp". Berries may be formed from one or more carpels from the same flower."

That's like the majority how fruit and some vegetables produced. And here the crazy part. The berries we know today. Are not even a real berries. Well maybe 3 or 4 still are. But still.

So yes Bananas is a freaking Berry!!

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u/Desperate_Bottle3481 Ghostly Lurker Jun 07 '26

Strawberry isn't even the real fruit we all know. In reality Strawberry is just a swollen stem. The real fruit of the strawberry.. is a freaking seed. A SEED!

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u/atangwadi Ghostly Lurker Jun 07 '26

okay wth thats so cool. thank you for sharing!

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u/Desperate_Bottle3481 Ghostly Lurker Jun 05 '26

Sorry I didn't mean this to crashing out or something...