Answer:
A cucumber is a fruit.
How Is a Cucumber a Fruit?
- A common definition regarding a fruit is that fruits can be eaten raw. Since you can eat cucumber without cooking, therefore it is considered as a fruit.
- Also fruits came from flowers unlike the majority of all vegetables that come from the edible part of a plant like stems, roots, leaves and etc.
- It is also a common knowledge that all fruits or vegetables that are considered as fruits or vice-versa that have seeds on it is considered or classified as fruits.
Fun Fact!
The phrase “Cool as a Cucumber” is actually derived from the cucumber’s ability to cool down ones blood temperature.
(As you all know, cucumber is not the only fruit that is mistaken as a vegetable, there are many others like Tomatoes, Olives, Squash and etc.)
