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What is the difference between vegetable and fruit?

Is there any exact definition of vegetable and fruit? How can new plant be classified?
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Why do carrots spoil so fast?

The carrots we buy from a supermarkets spoil very fast, albeit giving many consumers a false sense of preservability due to their structural rigidity. The answer extends to many other vegetables many ...
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What kind of kale is this?

I'm from Pennsylvania and I used to get this kale all the time at the grocery store, but I moved to the West Coast recently and can't find it anywhere! It looks exactly like this photo: Image source: ...
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Why do some people find vegetables so repellent when evolutionarily they should find them an attractive and thus tasty food?

Why do certain people (especially kids) find vegetables so "repellent" when evolutionarily they should find them an attractive and thus tasty food? I ask this question because if Darwin's theory of ...
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How are there multiple varieties of the potato?

The potato appears to propagate by growing an 'eye'/'bud' which eventually grows into a new plant. So there would probably be single representative of the potato species in the world with all others ...
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What can give rocket salad (Eruca Sativa) a fish smell? [closed]

I bought an 'already washed' plastic tray of rocket salad (arugula, or Eruca Sativa) enclosed in a sealed plastic bag. It has been kept in the refrigerator for four days. When I opened it, some 12 ...
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Why do same type of fruits come in different sizes?

Why don't fruits come in exact same size even they're the same type of fruit? This sounds like an obvious question, but why are some apples bigger than others? and why are some bananas larger than ...
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Strange Onion and i don't know what it's

Today i cutting my onion and i saw so many verbs like this in it. I searched about it through google lens and manually also but unable to find the reason of this. I doubt is it serious case ?
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Grafting vegetables onto fruit-bearing trees

There are multi-fruit trees with as many as 40 different fruit, but would it be possible to graft a vegetable onto a tree? Or maybe something in between, like grafting onto an apple tree a fruits in ...
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What is the protocol for extracting Protease Onion?

I am Investigating the protease concentration in certain fruits and vegetables. I am unable to find the protocols for the extraction from onions. I want to purify my protein using the ammonium ...
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Pepper plant leaf curl and "sweating"

The "sweating" and leaf curl have been going on for about a week. I've done some extensive googling and have found mixed diagnoses. For context, the ambient temperature is 74°, I'm using 6,500 K lamps ...
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What does effect would Sulforaphane have on Kennedy's Disease?

Sulforaphane is a isothiocyanate found in cruciferous vegetables including broccoli and cauliflower. Its 2D structure is as follows: It's been found to serve as a histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6) ...
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If I sent a bag of rice to the bottom of the ocean and brought it back, could I eat it?

Suppose I filled an oceangoing container with rice and sunk it to the bottom of the ocean… say, a kilometer or so, then brought it back up. Would it be edible? Would it retain nutrients? Do these ...
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Potato with purple veins!

Today while cooking with potatoes when I cut open a potato(raw) which was looking perfect from the outside showed purple veins. I threw it in my kitchen garden but than I wondered what it could be ...
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Bio-fuel efficiency as aviation gasoline

Can biofuels replace petroleum for aviation fuel? I've read in the news that Alaska Airlines was flying with 10~20% biofuel and 80~90% petroleum. Is biofuel efficiency comparable to the efficiency of ...
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A balanced diet with the minimum carbon footprint [closed]

Many studies shows that 1 kg of non-vegetarian food as 3-4 times more carbon footprint than 1 kg of vegetarian food. I think that does not represent the complete picture food from animal sources are ...
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How does garlic preparation affect its active compounds or medicinal properties? [closed]

I read the following claims about how to consume garlic: Consume immediately after crushing since the active compounds (allicin) is volatile and gets oxidized as soon as it's crushed Allow to sit 10 ...
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Identify vegetable with stalks coming out of it

I know nothing more about this vegetable than the fact that it is safely edible, which a local vegetable vendor in South India told me. It's green (white inside) and has a strong smell resembling that ...
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What impact do genetic engineering techniques have on seed breeders?

In research of seed breeding, I'm trying to understand the impact of genetic engineering techniques like CRISPR (This is the main one as I understand) on traditional seed breeders. Through searching ...
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How effective is it to rinse fruit, lettuce, tomato, ... with water?

The general rule I've seen stated is that to get rid of some nasty bacteria, one should rinse fruit and vegetable under running water before using them, especially if eaten raw. Most likely the ...
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Rapid Decomposition Of Fruits & Vegetables During Hurricane

A very strange thing (To my mind) has just happened in my home. On the eve of Hurricane Irma, I purchased some food including cucumbers and grapes. I left them in my kitchen area overnight. When I ...
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Why are vegetables either red or yellow?

Have you ever wondered why these two colors occur so often? Take these: onion waltnut potato carrot/parsley and even cabbage which can be green or red. Why these two pigments? Or is it just one ...
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What is the evolutionary purpose of citric acid?

According to Dr. Paul Saladin, fruits are brightly coloured and sweet because they want to be eaten to spread the seeds of the plant. Unlike roots stems seeds and leaves that don't. To deter ...
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Does the harvesting time of broccoli sprouts change their glucoraphanin content and sulforaphane formation capacity?

Does anybody know if the harvesting time affects glucoraphanin content and sulforaphane formation of broccoli sprouts? Do they also get affected by light exposure or lack of it?
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What is the appropriate blender speed to maximize nutrition and digestion of fruits and vegetables? [closed]

Blender companies state that a blender for smoothies should have speeds of at least 30000 rpm. They argue that only at 30000 rpm are cells of fruits and vegetables sheared enough to maximize nutrition ...
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What nutrients do I lose in the water when I boil vegetables?

What nutrients do I lose in the water when I boil vegetables. Has to be some water-soluble and heat labile ones right? Which ones?
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Do violet potatoes contain more or less solanine than normal potatoes?

What is the solanine content of the violet potatoes? Is it more or less than in the normal potatoes?
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