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Wheat, rice, corn, and oats have been hiding a fruit wall in plain sight. A cereal grain is not just a seed. It is a fruit fused so tightly to its seed that the two look like one structure.
Tomatoes, bananas, grapes, peppers, and eggplants all qualify as botanical berries. Raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries do not. The botanical definition of a berry has almost nothing to do with what most people mean by “berry,” and the resulting produce-aisle chaos is spectacular.