Various Fruits and Vegetables and Difference between them Video Lecture - Class 6

taking care of our plants at the fort is
one of our favorite things to do and the
best part is sometimes we can eat what
we grow we grow lots of plants including
vegetables like lettuce and carrots and
fruits like blueberries and tomatoes
yeah you heard me right according to
scientists who study plants called
botanists both blueberries and tomatoes
are actually kinds of fruit even though
a lot of people call Tomatoes vegetables
but how do we know the difference
between fruits and vegetables it can be
tricky but if we learn a little bit
about how plants grow we can make a
pretty good guess so let's start with
how plants start seeds when a young new
plant begins to grow from a seed it
pushes its roots deep into the soil and
stretches its stem and leaves up towards
the Sun sometimes the roots stems leaves
and flower buds of a plant are edible
which means we can eat them safely and
we call all of these edible plant parts
including unopened flowers roots stems
and leaves vegetables check out this
popular favorite the carrot if you look
at a carrot as it's growing you can see
its leaves and stem grow above the soil
the part that we usually eat grows down
in the ground that's right the carrot is
a root and since it's a root that we can
eat it's a vegetable all right now what
about fruit the fact is every fruit
starts with a pretty blooming flower
flowers not only look and smell nice
they also do something really important
for the plants that make them they help
plants reproduce when a living thing
reproduces it makes more of itself and
plants that make flowers reproduce by
making seeds in flowering plants a seed
starts to form in a special part of a
flower which begins to swell as the seed
gets bigger a lot of the time this part
of the plant keeps growing around the
seed to protect it eventually the flower
falls off and the swollen part of the
plant that's left behind becomes what
you and I know as a fruit so if it's an
edible plant part like a root stem leaf
or unopened flower buds it's a vegetable
if it's part of a flowering plant that
has a seed in it it's a fruit so do you
think you can guess whether what we're
growing in the greenhouse is a fruit or
a vegetable let's go for it we'll start
with a
delicious plant that's super good for
you spinach what do you think spinach is
a fruit or a vegetable a vegetable is
right spinach is a leaf if we take a
look at the spinach plant we can see
that it has roots to hold it in the
ground and those leaves are held up by a
stem good job how about a cucumber what
do you think fruit or vegetable right
Oh fruit if we look at a cucumber plant
we see it has roots stems and leaves but
those aren't the parts we eat cucumbers
also make flowers it's that special part
of a flower that becomes the cucumber
fruit if we look inside a cucumber
that's been cut we can see it's little
seeds let's try one more how about green
peas fruit or vegetable believe it or
not peas are a fruit pea plants make
flowers and parts of these flowers
become the fruit that we call a pea pod
if we eat the peas in the pod we're
actually just eating the pea seeds now
sometimes it's hard to tell what
something is in the supermarket
sometimes we grow fruits that don't have
seeds or have seeds that are too small
to see it can also be tricky to tell us
something's a root stem or leaf but it's
always fun to see if you can guess what
in your shopping cart is a fruit and
what's a vegetable just make sure you
eat plenty of both thanks for joining us
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