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Is it important to know that banana, is a berry but strawberry is not? See detail.

Asked by flo (13313points) February 27th, 2019

Edited. If there are more reliable websites than the ones below, feel free to post them. I don’t know the sites.
https://www.livescience.com/57477-why-are-bananas-considered-berries.html

“Despite its name, the strawberry isn’t a true berry. Neither is the raspberry or the blackberry. But the banana, it turns out, is a berry, scientifically speaking, as are eggplants, grapes and oranges.”

http://factmyth.com/factoids/a-banana-is-a-berry/
What Makes a Berry a Berry?

”“True berries” are simple fruits stemming from one flower with one ovary and typically have several seeds. Bananas meet these criteria, as do tomatoes, pomegranates, and kiwis. Meanwhile things we think of as berries like strawberries aren’t actually berries as they are derived from a single flower with more than one ovary. All berries are fruits and thus a banana is both a berry and a fruit.[1]”

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