IS AN APPLE A FRUIT OR VEGETABLE?

An apple is both a fruit and a vegetable. By definition, a vegetable is any plant whose fruit, seeds, roots, tubers, bulbs, stems, leaves, or flower parts are used as food, as the tomato, bean, beet, potato, onion, asparagus, spinach, or cauliflower. And a fruit is defined as, the developed ovary of a seed plant with its contents and accessory parts, as the pea pod, nut, tomato, or pineapple.

Thus, apples, pea pods, and tomatoes are both a fruit and a vegetable. However, onions, potatoes, and beets, are just vegetables.