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Strawberries aren't berries, bananas are. How true is this?

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Despite its name, the strawberry isn't a true berry. Neither is the raspberry or the blackberry. But the banana, it turns out, is a berry, scientifically speaking, as are eggplants, grapes and oranges. read more

Strawberries, blackberries, mulberries and raspberries are some examples of non berry fruits but with berry in their common name. Strawberry is the odd one in this group in that the fruit is actually not a fruit (!) but the swollen receptacle holding the ovaries (those little black things on it). read more

A true berry is a fleshy fruit formed from the ovary of a single flower with a seed, or seeds, embedded on the inside of the flesh. To put it simply, berries have seeds on the inside of the fruit. And you can see just from looking at a strawberry that its seeds are studded all around the outside of the fruit. read more

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