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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Tim
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
nice
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
Politician And banks are nuts
It's a Fact!
Nice one dude..haha
They are a cancer, not a cure for it, too.
wow , steemit is now teaching me stuff, loved your post
I'm nuts for strawberries... Great post
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Wow that's really surprising and I feel good that I know it now through you post. Thanks for sharing :)
Hi, thanks for providing this clarification. Educational systems and supermarkets add to the mischaracterization of strawberries. It is with little wonder that the public at-large considers them a fruit.
Steemit is realy helping me this days because i do learn new things almost some new things per day .
Thank you for sharing this ... It really help
I think the problem is that the categorization is kinda broken.
Quite some time ago someone created a categorization about what a nut, vegetable or fruit is. Back then the knowledge about certain types of them was not that good so some things got into the wrong category. (Like people considered Strawberries fruits). But, today, instead of fixing those categorizations we put those species into groups they don't make sense at all.
Since often species which are very alike biologically often get into very different categories just because someone told us to a time ago.
Would be like categorizing pugs as apes because they are able to walk on two feet (at least while they're peeing).
There is so many myth, but the fact is when we actually find out with detail true. About the strawberry myth I mean what???......nicely written though.
Haha yesterday they told me tomato is actually a fruit. I wasn't ready for this new strawberry nut fact 🍓
But thank you (:
Whaaatt?! o.O Don't destroy my world please..
thank you collecting this informtation and producing it to this post. :)
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Thank you
I believe you. Anything that can get stuck between the teeth are nuts... and that is not scientific! lol And bananas grow on plants, not trees. Did you know that a single banana plant produces only once and no more? I became a banana farmer by default when we first moved to the Philippines... had several plants in the yard.
Brace yourselves, the nut jokes are coming :)
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Oh, finally! Do you remember two months ago?
Looks like it was a very long day😉
Oh lord you made me laugh hard!!! I didn't expect it to take that long to be honest. So much happened recently. All this traveling made it more or less impossible to continue the work on Myth or Fact. But wow, good catch!
Thats incredible tim, just started following your page and looking forward to your posts, I am also into cryptocurrencies, and love science,.
Hi @timsaid, I enjoyed reading this post about Strawberries. You have changed my views on berries and now I'm going to change the views of many others. Eventually, when there is enough awareness created, we might start celebrating and organizing a Strawberry Festival. Joking.
By the way, I read somewhere that there used to be potato forests in China 200 years ago. Sounds mythical. :D
Keep posting man. It's fun reading your posts.
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Hmmm, I strawberries as nuts ... I will try to wrap my melon around that @timsaid.
I am waiting for your post on whether or not tomatoes are a fruit or a vegetable ... ?
In the meantime I am cooking them :) https://steemit.com/health/@wanderingmind/shhhh-from-the-secret-bachelor-files-world-s-best-kept-secret-simple-easy-organic-tomato-sauce-recipe-bonus-colorchallenge
I cannut believe what I just read :P
haha :-)
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I see what you did there!
THAT WAS A GOOD STUFF MAN! FOR MORE COOL STUFF PLEASE FOLOW ME at @godgiver please
After reading that pseudo fruit im going nuts haha !! @godgiver
Are you serious 😒
I was surprised to know that strawberries are actually nuts. Your photography is very amazing. The closeup of strawberry looks succulent!
Didn't knew such interesting facts feel..... Thanks for sharing @timsaid!!
im nuts about this strawberries nuts :D
I remember a few years ago finding this out in my university botany class! Very interesting indeed!
nice nutty post :P
I don't know what makes what what. I do know that finding out a strawberry is actually classified closer to nuts blew my mind. Kudos.
soooo... if at some point blueberries turn out to be nuts also, can we call them Bluenuts? :}
Informative post about strawberries are nuts.
My upvoted & followed. Thanks.
esa fresa se ve demasiado provocativa, y si tiene bayas mejor jejeje. saludos y gracias por compartir esta información.
I love this series :D
You're doing a good job by writing valuable posts. Myths and misconceptions have damaged the advancement to a great extent. However, I want to tell you my true feelings that you have got a very good sense of humor. So, keep it up man. :D
Wow. I really love this
It's funny curiosity, but it's useless for the majority of people to know this fact.
This post was very informative thank you for sharing
you have my upvote plus a resteem
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thank you for this information is very importante
or that good information did not know about that.
Ya'll are nuts for reading this lol.
Haha. And tomatoes are potatoes. I invite you to see my photo.
I thought tomatoes were a fruit! Potatoes are a vegetable.
Nice , good job and continue