Fruit or veg

I'm very interested about this subject.  First, I usually make salad. And I should use tomatoes, cucumber,and basil instead of lettuce.It should be called vegetables because we eat them for a meal. Cauliflower is used for cooking soup. Pepper is added flavour to meals. Secondly, in my country, we use Br.E, and all of students' book  have a lot  of pictures of vegetables: tomatoes, potatoes, cucumbers, spinach, pepper, cauliflowers, lettuce etc....And fruits are used for dessert such as water melon,  orange, mandarin, banana, peaches longan,mangoes, etc,,,,,, But lemon is used to added savour for some dishes. and also a fruit for lemon juice, so we call it fruit It seems Fruits are more delicious than Vegetables for some people.

Phuong Ninh

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I'm very worried about my trifle; the jelly won't set.

That's probably because you used the tomato jelly instead of the strawberry!

I was always told thar if it grew in the open air and contained the seeds of the plant (eg apple, orange, tomato) it was a fruit.

If it grew underground and was a root or tuber (eg potato, carrot) it was a vegetable

Leaves (eg cabbage, brussel sprouts, lettuce) were usually classed as vegetables, but should really be called leaves in their own right.

I'm not sure how you'd class peas though!