How Many Fruits Do You See in This Picture?
Now look at the purple sweet potatoes. These are not fruits. Sweet potatoes are storage roots. They grow underground and store energy for the plant, so they should not be included when counting fruits.
The tomato is another food that can confuse people. In cooking, tomatoes are often grouped with vegetables because they are commonly used in savory dishes. Botanically, however, tomatoes are fruits. They develop from the flower of the tomato plant and contain seeds.
The eggplant is also botanically a fruit. Like tomatoes and peppers, it grows from a flower and contains seeds. So even though you might put eggplant in the vegetable section at the grocery store, it counts as a fruit for this quiz.
Next comes the corn. Corn is a little more complicated than it looks. Each individual kernel is technically a type of fruit called a caryopsis because the fruit wall is fused with the seed coat. But when looking at this picture as a simple food-counting puzzle, we usually treat the whole ear of corn as one food item rather than counting every kernel as a separate fruit.
Finally, we have the papaya. The papaya is clearly a fruit. The orange flesh and the many black seeds make it one of the easiest fruits to recognize in the picture.
So, what is the answer?
If we count the recognizable fruit items shown in the picture using the usual everyday classification, we have the strawberry, grapes, bell pepper, apple, tomato, eggplant, and papaya.
That gives us a total of 7 fruits.
The fun part of this puzzle is that it reminds us how everyday food categories and botanical definitions can be very different. Foods such as tomatoes, peppers, and eggplants may be called vegetables in the kitchen, but scientifically, they are fruits.
So if you counted 7, you got the answer!
And if you counted something different, don’t worry. The tricky classifications are exactly what make this little picture puzzle more interesting than it first appears.
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