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Cantaloupe

chelsmaee7
chelsmaee7 Posts: 115 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
is it a fruit or a vegetable? I always thought it was a fruit but I was looking at seeds today and it was in the vegetable section.

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  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    edited May 2015
    Cantaloupe is a fruit but I can see where a store worker might think of it as a vegetable. There's not a clear-cut line between the definitions of fruits and vegetables.

    Here's an article discussing the issue, although with the main focus on watermelon:

    Watermelon: A fruit or a vegetable?
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,375 Member
    I think cantaloupe (rockmelon where I live) is a fruit - just like watermelon and other melons.
  • zyxst
    zyxst Posts: 9,150 Member
    It's botanically a fruit. I consider it a fruit but I see how it can be a veggie (grows out like a squash).
  • livingleanlivingclean
    livingleanlivingclean Posts: 11,751 Member
    Fruit.... Yummy frozen and whizzed up in to sorbet
  • kommodevaran
    kommodevaran Posts: 17,890 Member
    I am having cantaloupe with breakfast these days. I'm treating it as fruit. Delicious!
  • chelsmaee7
    chelsmaee7 Posts: 115 Member
    I looked again today at a different store and every packet of seeds actually says vegetable on it. Either way I love cantaloupe!!
  • FitPhillygirl
    FitPhillygirl Posts: 7,124 Member
    edited May 2015
    I have cantaloupe almost everyday. It's one of my favorite fruits when the weather turns warmer.
  • blue_eyes1978
    blue_eyes1978 Posts: 127 Member
    lol I always thought any thing with seed is classified as a fruit :) green peppers, avocado, cucumber, zucchini :) I think this logic is something I recall hearing in grade school.
  • brynnsmom
    brynnsmom Posts: 945 Member
    mommygroffof4 wrote: »
    lol I always thought any thing with seed is classified as a fruit :) green peppers, avocado, cucumber, zucchini :)

    I've heard this as well.

  • seska422
    seska422 Posts: 3,217 Member
    brynnsmom wrote: »
    mommygroffof4 wrote: »
    lol I always thought any thing with seed is classified as a fruit :) green peppers, avocado, cucumber, zucchini :)

    I've heard this as well.
    Botanically, yes. Some people, though, only consider food a fruit if it is sweet. Some even only consider it a fruit if it is sweet and grows on a tree or bush, rather than a vine.
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