Food quiz: Can you tell if these foods are fruits or vegetables?
July 11, 2013 by Lindsay
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The British press is doing a lot to entertain themselves waiting for the Royal baby, and a good example is this test from the Telegraph, Do you know your fruit from your vegetables? Hint: This is based on a scientific definition rather than a culinary one. Go there now if you want to take the test without help.
For those who don’t want to take the test, here’s a rule of thumb: “The general rule is that an edible plant can be categorised as a fruit if it has seeds, but if it is seedless, it is generally a vegetable.”
And here are the top ten fruits commonly mistaken as vegetables:
- 1) Peapods – only 1 per cent could name it as a fruit
- 2) Aubergine – 3 per cent (eggplant in the U.S.)
- 3) Olives – 3 per cent
- 4) Butternut squash – 4 per cent
- 5) Pumpkin – 7 per cent
- 6) Pepper – 9 per cent
- 7) Avocado – 12 per cent
- 8) Courgette – 14 per cent (squash in the U.S.)
- 9) Cucumber – 34 per cent
- 10) Tomato – 52 per cent
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