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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.
Roots, stems, leaves, flowers, ovaries, seeds, and entire clusters of flowers: the produce aisle is botanically much stranger than its labels suggest. Plant scientists classify what we eat by how plant structures develop, not by where the grocery store shelves them.