Choose two favorite fruits.

[Hotteok]

Mine: watermelon and grapefruit.

 

 

Edited December 31, 2022 by Hotteok

[Lee49]

Bananas and chocolate covered strawberries!😋

 

[Dages]

Pear and grapes

[Qapla]

I guess it all depends on what you call a "fruit"

 

While the banana plant is colloquially called a banana tree, it's actually an herb distantly related to ginger, since the plant has a succulent tree stem, instead of a wood one. The yellow thing you peel and eat is, in fact, a fruit because it contains the seeds of the plant.

 

To a botanist, a fruit is an entity that develops from the fertilized ovary of a flower. This means that tomatoes, squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, corn kernels, and bean and pea pods are all fruits

 

Corn is an important member of the grass family. Corn (Zea mays) was domesticated from a wild plant called teosinte and while eaten sometimes as a vegetable and sometimes as a grain, it is actually classified by botanists as a fruit

 

A strawberry is actually a multiple fruit which consists of many tiny individual fruits embedded in a fleshy receptacle. The brownish or whitish specks, which are commonly considered seeds, are the true fruits, called achenes, and each of them surrounds a tiny seed

 

Raspberries are an important commercial fruit crop, widely grown in all temperate regions of the world. The raspberry is the edible fruit of a multitude of plant species in the genus Rubus. The major kinds cultivated are red, black, purple, and blue raspberries

 

Cacao (or cocoa) beans are technically not beans or legumes, but rather the seeds of the fruit of the Theobroma cacao tree. The pod shaped fruit is botanically classified as baccate-like (berry-like) and each pod produces approximately 35-50 seeds surrounded by a sweet pulp

 

Then, there are the many fruits that are grown in regions of the world I have never seen nor tasted.

 

So, again, depending on what we want to call a "fruit", my favorites (not in any particular order) are :

• Tomatoes
• Corn on the cob
• cucumbers
• raspberries (blackberries grow wild here)
• blueberries (our next-door neighbor is a commercial blueberry grower/producer)
• bananas
• chocolate
• watermelon
• cantaloupe

 

Hope this counts as an answer to the question

 

 

Edited December 31, 2022 by Qapla

[Doak]

Figs and apricots. 🤤

[Amygdala]

Dates & Lemons 😁

[Tortuga]

Apples and Grapes. In a variety of ways....🥧 🍷🍇🍎

[Californiamama]

Love and Patience (Gal 5:22) giggle 🙂

[New World Explorer]

Mango 🥭 and cherries 🍒 

[Qapla]

OK - my daughters say I can't count tomatoes and corn as "fruit" - so, they agreed that my favorite two fruits would be

 

 

and 

 

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The last two coming in as a tie for second

 

 

[Pabo]

6 hours ago, Qapla said:

A strawberry is actually a multiple fruit which consists of many tiny individual fruits embedded in a fleshy receptacle. The brownish or whitish specks, which are commonly considered seeds, are the true fruits, called achenes, and each of them surrounds a tiny seed

 

So when is a strawberry dead? This question has plagued various scientists from around the world who have appeared on "The Infinite Monkey Cage".

[Lee49]

Dates and cashews eaten together! 

Is a date a fruit or nut?

• Dates are sweet fruits that grow in bundles on date palms. While they are high in natural sugar, they also contain many essential nutrients.

• So is cashew a fruit or a nut ?

  The cashew is actually a fruit ! And botanically speaking, it’s not a nut.

   

   

[Pink Butterflies]

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[Pink Butterflies]

[New World Explorer]

2 minutes ago, Pink Butterflies said:

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I have not had good peach from the supermarket for years... looking forward to real peach taste in Paradise. 

[Pink Butterflies]

1 minute ago, New World Explorer said:

I have not had good peach from the supermarket for years... looking forward to real peach taste in Paradise. 

It’s hard to find naturally ripe an flavorful fruit. I’ve started visiting orchards, farmers markets but we’ll have to wait for the new system for real fruit 

[Tortuga]

6 hours ago, Lee49 said:

Dates and cashews eaten together! 

Is a date a fruit or nut?

• Dates are sweet fruits that grow in bundles on date palms. While they are high in natural sugar, they also contain many essential nutrients.

• So is cashew a fruit or a nut ?

  The cashew is actually a fruit ! And botanically speaking, it’s not a nut.

   

   

Which type of dates? I love the medjool dates.

Edited January 1, 2023 by Tortuga

[Lee49]

7 hours ago, Tortuga said:

Which type of dates?

I discovered these at Costco, delicious!