LETS END THIS FEUD HERE!: avocadoes, fruit or vegetable?

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  • soaringlikeaneagle70
    soaringlikeaneagle70 Posts: 44 Member
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    The avocado is widely considered a vegetable, since it is commonly used in salads. However, it is actually a fruit that tastes like a vegetable, and most markets display it with other typical fruits.

    In some areas, it is known as the avocado pear and also the alligator pear due to the pebbly, rough exterior of one of the common types. There are quite a few varieties of avocados, but most cooks develop a preference for a particular breed.

    The fruit is harvested from tall trees, which grow in groves. The rich, pale yellow-green flesh of the pear-shaped fruit has a texture likened to a firm ripe banana, smooth and buttery, with a faintly nutty flavor.
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
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    Only thing I care about is who has the the chips and tequila to go with it!
  • Maribabewhich
    Maribabewhich Posts: 157 Member
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    Fruit
  • meshashesha2012
    meshashesha2012 Posts: 8,326 Member
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    seed = fruits
  • LittleMiss_WillLoseIt
    LittleMiss_WillLoseIt Posts: 1,373 Member
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    Only thing I care about is who has the the chips and tequila to go with it!

    I pretty certain I have both plus some limes...
  • jmc0806
    jmc0806 Posts: 1,444 Member
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    Only thing I care about is who has the the chips and tequila to go with it!

    I pretty certain I have both plus some limes...

    Perfect. On my way :drinker:
  • Danger2OneSelf
    Danger2OneSelf Posts: 883 Member
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    Umm clearly a fruetable
  • __RANDY__
    __RANDY__ Posts: 1,036 Member
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    The avocado (Persea americana) is a tree native to Central Mexico,[1] classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae along with cinnamon, camphor and bay laurel. Avocado or alligator pear also refers to the fruit (botanically a large berry that contains a single seed[2]) of the tree.

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  • xDawnsgrace
    xDawnsgrace Posts: 436
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    it's an avocado.
  • LittleMiss_WillLoseIt
    LittleMiss_WillLoseIt Posts: 1,373 Member
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    Only thing I care about is who has the the chips and tequila to go with it!

    I pretty certain I have both plus some limes...

    Perfect. On my way :drinker:

    I'll be impatiently waiting. :P
  • Oaeneo
    Oaeneo Posts: 65 Member
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    The word Avocado comes from a Nahuatl Indian (Aztec) word “ahuácatl” meaning testicle.
  • 2stepz
    2stepz Posts: 814 Member
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    Knowledge is knowing the tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting in your fruit salad.

    Same goes for avocados.
  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
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    Don't care!, it's yummy:)

    ^^^ This!!

    But really it's none of the above.. it's a berry.. :~)

    ps. A pineapple is a berry as well.. betcha didn't know that! LOL
  • Confuzzled4ever
    Confuzzled4ever Posts: 2,860 Member
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    Knowledge is knowing the tomato is a fruit, wisdom is not putting in your fruit salad.

    Same goes for avocados.

    mmm mix tomato with watermelon and spinach, top with feta and balsamic vinegar.. mouth watering!!!!
  • alias1001
    alias1001 Posts: 634 Member
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    There's really no such thing as a vegetable besides being an edible part of a plant, botanically speaking, unless my bio professor was lying to me. So fruits, seeds, leaves, stems, roots, etc. are all vegetables.

    Nor is there such thing as a weed, botanically speaking, either. Just a plant that grows where we don't want it to.

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