Fruits

A fruit is a thing that wants to be eaten.

Fruits can be vegetables or animals, but cannot be fungi.

The tomato is both a fruit and a vegetable, it is also red.

Until the 1940s rhubarb was considered a vegetable. It became a fruit when US customs officials, baffled by the foreign food, decided it should be classified according to the way it was eaten.

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