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The Plants We Eat Reference List When you eat fruit or vegetables, think about which part of the plant it comes from. For example: a potato is a ROOT. We eat the STEMS and FLOWERS of broccoli. Berries, tomatoes, and bananas are FRUITS of the plant. Lettuce and spinach are the LEAVES of the plant. Using the following list or actual vegetables and fruits as models, have students identify which plant parts they represent. ROOTS STEMS FRUIT LEAVES beet broccoli banana lettuce onion celery berries parsley carrot rhubarb pear cabbage parsnip Asparagus plum spinach potato pineapple collards SEEDS radish eggplant lima beans FLOWERS rutabaga cucumber peas cauliflower sweet potato grapes corn broccoli turnip pumpkin pumpkin seeds What is the difference between a fruit and a vegetable? The answer depends on your relationship with the two items. If you’re stocking the produce department at a grocery store, a tomato is a vegetable. If you’re a plant scientist—a botanist—a tomato is a fruit. Cucumbers, pumpkins, avocados, and peppers are all fruits. Culturally, however, the grocer is going to call them vegetables. A fruit is the ripe ovary or ovaries of a flower—the mature ovary of a seed-bearing plant. Let’s say you’ve got a tomato plant with those little yellow flowers all ready. A bee comes along and fertilizes the flower. The flower starts developing into a fruit with the seed inside. Vegetables, however, are the roots (carrots), tubers (potato), leaves (spinach), stems (celery), and other bits of plants that you might eat. For a botanist, a vegetable is sort of like the umbrella word for all the edible parts of a plant. Just to keep life interesting, mushrooms aren’t plants at all, they are a kind of fungus. This material was funded by USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – SNAP. This institution is an equal opportunity provider. .

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