Is it a vegetable?.....

This week for science news Grace bought in an enormous cucumber that her Mum grew.

Mrs Ware told us that it was acutally the FRUIT of a plant because it had seeds inside it. We thought about all the other 'Vegetables' that were actually fruit like pumpkin, peppers and tomato.

We found out that things that most people call fruit have more fructose to make them taste sweeter.

Then Mrs Ware told us that the other 'Vegetables' we ate were

Roots (potato, carrot, kumara, radish etc)
Leaves (lettuce, cabbage, bok choy etc)
Flowers (brocolli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts etc)
Seeds  (corn, peas etc)

But where does onion fit in?.... and asparagus?.... and mushrooms?

.....so.... see if you can figure out what you are having tonight for dinner - who would have thought flowers could be so yummy!

definition of fruits and vegetables