Fruit vs. Vegetable

Main Difference
Fruits are the mature ovary seed of a flowering plant that is consumed as food by humans and other living organisms. The angiosperm or flowering plants possess seed that is matured and become fruits after ripening. On the other hand, vegetables are the food consumed from any part of the plant. It is specifically used by humans as their meals and is often cooked, fried, boiled or baked before consuming. Vegetables are different from fruits and nuts but do include some grain and pulses.

Difference Between Fruit and Vegetable

Fruit vs. Vegetable

Fruits are mature ovary seeds of a flowering plant.

Fruit vs. Vegetable

Vegetables are the edible part of plants other than ovary seed.

Fruit vs. Vegetable

Fruits are consumed

Fruit vs. Vegetable

Vegetables are more often consumed after cooking or boiling.

Fruit vs. Vegetable

Fruits are sweet, sour and bitter in taste.

Fruit vs. Vegetable

Vegetables cannot be classified by

Fruit vs. Vegetable

Fruits and Vegetables both are low in fats and calories and rich in fiber.

Fruitnoun

(botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.

While cucumber is technically a fruit, one would not usually use it to make jam.

Vegetablenoun

Any plant.

Fruitnoun

Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles seed-bearing fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were a fruit.

Fruit salad is a simple way of making fruits into a dessert.

Vegetablenoun

A plant raised for some edible part of it, such as the leaves, roots, fruit or flowers, but excluding any plant considered to be a fruit, grain, or spice in the culinary sense.

Fruitnoun

An end result, effect, or consequence; advantageous or disadvantageous result.

His long nights in the office eventually bore fruit when his business boomed and he was given a raise.

Vegetablenoun

The edible part of such a plant.

Fruitnoun

Offspring from a sexual union.

Blessed art thou amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.The litter was the fruit of the union between our whippet and their terrier.

Vegetablenoun

A person whose brain (or, infrequently, body) has been damaged so that they cannot interact with the surrounding environment; a brain-dead person.

Fruitnoun

A homosexual or effeminate man.

Vegetableadjective

Of or relating to plants.

Fruitnoun

modifier}} Of, pertaining to, or having fruit; of living things producing or consuming fruit.

Vegetableadjective

Of or relating to vegetables.

Fruitverb

To produce fruit, seeds, or spores.

Vegetablenoun

edible seeds or roots or stems or leaves or bulbs or tubers or nonsweet fruits of any of numerous herbaceous plant

Fruitnoun

the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant

Vegetablenoun

any of various herbaceous plants cultivated for an edible part such as the fruit or the root of the beet or the leaf of spinach or the seeds of bean plants or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower

Fruitnoun

the consequence of some effort or action;

he lived long enough to see the fruit of his policies

Vegetableadjective

of the nature of or characteristic of or derived from plants;

decaying vegetable mattera mineral depositmineral water

Fruitnoun

an amount of a product

Fruitverb

cause to bear fruit

Fruitverb

bear fruit;

the trees fruited early this year

Comparison Chart

Fruit	Vegetable
Ripened seed ovaries of the flowering plants are regarded as fruits.	All sort of edible part of the plant except the seed ovary is termed as a vegetable.
Presence of Seed
Fruits always contain seeds whether inside or outside.	Seeds are absent in all kinds of vegetables.
Gained from
Seeds of flowering plants, Angiosperms.	No flowering and flowering plants both. Even from lower plants and fields.
Taste
Most of the fruits possess sweet luscious taste, whereas many are bitter and sour too.	Vegetables are no sweet like fruits, but some are sweet, some are neutral with no specific taste classification.
Nutrition
Fruits are very much high in sugar and possess a variety of natural vitamins in them. They are high in fiber and low in fats.	Vegetables are fiber enriched. Green vegetables possess a high amount of iron. Some are high in sugar such as potato etc.
Consumed
Fruits are always consumed directly once there are ripped completely. They do not involve any cooking or undergo any boiling.	Vegetables most of the times are used to cooking, in the fried or boiled form. Whereas the use of vegetables as salads does not involve cooking.

What is Fruit?

Fruits are the ripened ovary seeds of the flowering or angiosperm plants. In other words, we can say that fruits are edible, that is obtained from the flower or a flowering portion of the plant. Fruits do possess seeds inside them. Some fruits like strawberries have their seed outside of their body. Fruits are high in sugar and rich in fiber. Fruits possess a variety of useful natural occurring vitamins in it. Most kinds of fruits are sweet in nature, whereas various possess sour and bitter taste as well. Fruits are consumed directly once they are ripped. They are not cooked or boiled like vegetables.

What is Vegetable?

Vegetables are also the edible parts of the plants other than the seed ovaries of flowering plants. A vegetable can be obtained from a flowering plant, non-flowering plants, lower plants, fields, etc. Vegetables are of various sizes and shapes. They are also high fiber enriched and possess low fats. Vegetables are considered as an essential food as the part of the perfect diet. Vegetables are eaten all around the globe as permanent part of the human meal. Vegetables, unlike fruits, do not possess specific sweet or salty taste like fruits, and they cannot be classified in any taste category. Vegetables are consumed directly as salads only. Mostly they are used for cooking or boiling. The edible parts of plants such as roots, leaves, and flower buds are commonly different vegetables. Green vegetables like spinach etc. are enriched with natural iron too.