What makes something a vegetable

The botanical classification: Cucumbers are fruit.

A botanical fruit would have at least one seed and grow from the flower of the plant. With this definition in mind, cucumbers are classified as fruit because they contain tiny seeds in the middle and grow from the flower of the cucumber plant.

Botanical Definition of Vegetable

Scientists don’t have a precise definition of the word vegetable, but the basic definition is “the edible root, tuber, leaf, stem, seed or flower of a plant”. Vegetables are any edible part of a plant that isn’t the fruit.

In reality, tomatoes are both fruits and vegetables at the same time. … That definition includes apples, tomatoes, and anything else that grows from a plant and contains seeds. (Cucumbers, peppers, pumpkins, and avocados are all fruits too, according to science.)

If you ask a cook, a vegetable is also a term used to define the parts of the plant that we eat― the plant matter on our plates such as salad, braised greens, carrots or potatoes. But if you ask a botanist, they’ll tell you there’s no such thing as a vegetable. … Carrots are the root of a plant.

Botanically speaking, a fruit is a seed-bearing structure that develops from the ovary of a flowering plant, whereas vegetables are all other plant parts, such as roots, leaves and stems.

Verdict: Ketchup is NOT a Smoothie

Just because tomato is a fruit does not mean that a blended tomato concoction like ketchup is automatically considered a smoothie.

Botanically, fruits contain seeds and come from the flower of a plant, while the rest of the plant is considered a vegetable. In cooking, fruits are considered to be sweet while vegetables are more savory.

Ketchup is made from tomatoes (with additional ingredients) and is considered a condiment like mustard or mayonnaise. … This makes it different from tomato soup/sauce is made from tomatoes, oil, meat/vegetable stock, and spices. Ketchup is naturally served cold, while the soup/sauce form is served hot.

A smoothie requires a blender that has sufficient power to blend ice cubes and frozen fruit. Blenders come in various capacities and power capabilities and with an array of preset or manual blending settings. Choose the right blender for making smoothies.

If you know someone who’s very charming and a little bit phony, you can call him a smoothie. A smoothie can talk you into loaning him money even if he already owes you some. You might also call a smoothie a “smooth-talker,” someone who’s good at getting what he wants using his charisma.

According to the Malay theory, the word ‘ketchup’ stems from the word Malay word ‘kicap’ or ‘kecap’, meaning fish sauce. … The name was changed to catsup and by the late 1700s, astute people of New England added tomatoes, to the blend of fish sauce.

Cereal is Cereal, Soup is Soup

Soup is “a liquid food made by boiling or simmering meat, fish, or vegetables with various added ingredients.” So, to answer this burning question, based on dictionary.com, cereal does not count as a soup. Unless you eat your cereal full of boiled meat, fish, or vegetables, that is.

Food technologist Maria Ylagan Orosa is credited with inventing banana ketchup. During the 1930s, Orosa dedicated herself to bolstering the Philippines by working to create dishes that could replace popular imported foods.

Instead of counting up the actual number of varieties his company made, Heinz decided to fudge it a little bit. He picked his own lucky number, 5, and his wife’s lucky number, 7, and put them together to get 57 —for 57 varieties, of course — a slogan he promptly rolled out.

In the 1830s, tomato ketchup was sold as a medicine, claiming to cure ailments like diarrhea, indigestion, and jaundice. The idea was proposed by Dr John Cook Bennett, who later sold the recipe in form of ‘tomato pills’.

In 1834, ketchup was sold as a cure for indigestion by an Ohio physician named John Cook. Tomato ketchup was popularized as a condiment commercially in the late 1800’s and today Americans purchases 10 billion ounces of ketchup annually.

Heinz 57, Heinz, or Heinz Hound is often used for dogs of uncertain ancestry, in a playful reference to the “57 Varieties” slogan of the H. J. Heinz Company. In some countries, such as Australia, bitsa (or bitzer) is sometimes used, meaning “bits o’ this, bits o’ that”.

According to Heinz, “fancy” is simply a USDA designation that producers are allowed to use for marketing if their product meets the standards of US Grade A/US Fancy tomato ketchup, which possesses a better color, consistency and flavor, and has fewer specks and particles and less separation of the liquid/solid contents …

Did you know that your common McDonald’s ketchup packaging are numbered from 1 to 8? You will see the superscript marked on the upper left corner of each packet. … They say each respective number corresponds to the ketchup’s “sweetness to sourness” level. “1” being the sweetest of the bunch while “8” being the sourest.

Mutt can now be used with either affection or disdain to refer to a dog that is not purebred, but in the word’s early history, in the U.S. around the turn of the 20th century, it could also be used to describe a person—and not kindly: mutt was another word for “fool.” The word’s history lies in another insult.