Myth or Fact? #33 – Strawberries are Nuts!

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Welcome my dear Steemian friends to a new episode of Myth or Fact! A series in which we will show that some common beliefs are myths while others turn out to be true.

It's been a long time since the last Myth or Fact episode but here we are! Back with some new myths, we are about to bring some light into the dark.

Do you remember the last episode where we talked about bananas and found out they actually are berries and don't grow on trees? What if I tell you now that strawberries are no berries at all but nuts? Hold on for a second, at first I say bananas are berries and then strawberries are nuts?

Well Steemians what is your guess? Let's have a closer look!

Berries or nuts? Pseudo-Fruits


Fig.1 Different views on Strawberry   Source

In order to understand the nature of strawberries, we need to look at their botanical definition. They are considered as aggregate accessory fruits while true berries are defined by a fleshy fruit which is produced from a single ovary. This sounds more complicated than it is. Take a look a the following image of a strawberry. The red fruit flesh which is around the seed doesn't come from an ovary but derived from the receptacle, the swollen part of the stem. Technically the seeds on the surface are nuts.

Fig.2 Close-up on a Strawberry   Source

The same is also true for blackberries and raspberries. Both are botanically seen not berries but aggregate fruits. Although you now know that these kind of berries are nuts you might still not consider them as nuts. We tend to put things into categories because of certain similarities. Because strawberries share more in common with berries than nuts we still will call them berries after all. Weird isn't it?


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Wow never knew about that before that strawberries are also nuts.....interesting

one of the berries went nuts lol

wonderfully detailed post...liked it...keep it up man...!

a nice post ; especially the work nut lol

I did not know that. Strawberries are the juiciest, sweetest nuts i've ever let spoil in the refrigerator!

Strawberries do spoil quick, don't they? I find that I have to eat them in a couple of days or they start looking dull and dried up. :(

LOL, reading the title, I thought, "Has Timsaid gone Nuts"!! 😅

Ohh @timsaid I love this myth or fact episode. In this case strawberry should have been strawnuts? That sounds crazy,haha

Strawnuts sounds nuts! But yes, that would be more accurate

Well, botanically speaking: nuts are classified as fruits.

Though some nuts we call nuts in everyday language are actually seeds like Brazil nuts, whom we call nuts but who are seeds. The hazelnut is a nut, but a nut is fruit.

And berries are fruit, but there are different from other fruits.

A berry is a fruit that grows from the ovary of a single flower.

Whereas a nut is a fruit that grows a hard shell and a seed .

There is also berries that can be nuts like the strawberry as mentioned here.

The general term, fruit, in botany, refers to a seed -bearing structure in flowering plants.

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of all the nuts this one doesn't have a crunch

People who are not familiar with botany have developed their own stereotypes regarding various plant species. It is accepted to divide all plants into different groups according to certain external features. For example, nuts are something solid, with a shell, and berries are something juicy, soft, sweet and most likely red. But botanists look at plants from a completely different angle. For them, the nut and the berry are just the types of the fruit of the plants, which differ according to signs completely ignorant to ordinary people. And as a result, it turns out that strawberries have a type of fruit, which for a number of characteristics actually refers to nuts, not berries.

Totally agree with you, great summary. I guess in our daily life it would be better to call them berries unless you want people to look askance at you

wow , steemit is now teaching me stuff, loved your post

I'm nuts for strawberries... Great post

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Politician And banks are nuts

It's a Fact!

They are a cancer, not a cure for it, too.