Now, for some surprising facts to blow your mind at your next dinner party. Rhubarb is a vegetable, but culinarily, we treat it like a fruit because it’s so sour you drown it in sugar. You can legally call rhubarb pie a “fruit pie,” but botanically, it’s a veggie pretending to be sweet. It’s the drag queen of the produce world.
Corn is a fruit, a grain, and a vegetable, all at once. A kernel of corn is a seed (fruit part), the whole ear is a grain, and we eat it as a veggie. It’s the triple threat of the garden, and it’s still not as interesting as the guy who sells it at the fair.
What is a Fruit? What is a Vegetable? - AgClassroomStore at USU
And the sweet potato? It’s a root, not a tuber. That means it’s a real vegetable, unlike the potato, which is a swollen stem (a tuber). So a potato is a secret stem, not a root. Tell that to the kid who calls it “dirt apple.”
