Do you know Green pepper, tomatoes and pumpkin are fruits?

Most people categories some fruits as vegetables. Traditionally they classify vegetables as food that are eaten as part of a meal's main course and fruit as food that are eaten for dessert or as snack. Scientifically speaking, many of the foods we refer to as vegetables are actually fruits. Nutritionally, both of them are good for the body and aids in weight loss, some of the fruits are used in spas e.g cucumber and used for treatment and prevention of a lot of diseases.

This brings us to the difference between fruits and vegetables

• Fruit is a matured ovary of a flower containing the seed. It's also a ripened reproductive body of a seed plant while vegetable is any of the various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root(beet) or the leaf( spinach) or the seeds (bean plants) or the flower buds (broccoli or cauliflower)
• Fruits are mostly sweet and sometimes sour with bitter seeds, hardly can a vegetable be classified as sweet, sour or salty. It's usually savory and less sweet
• Fruits contain more calories because of the high sugar content, most vegetables have low calories but starchy vegetables like beet and potato have higher calories
•  A fruit must contain seed either inside(e.g paw paw) or outside (e.g strawberry) not all vegetables contain seed
• Examples of fruits are Avocado, green, red and yellow pepper, tomatoes, cucumber, pea pods, pumpkin, olives, apples, banana and others and Examples of vegetables are Broccoli, potato, spinach, cauliflower and others