Technically, squash is a fruit because it contains seeds, like a watermelon, though like tomatoes we think of it as a vegetable. But I don't see anything other than cooking methods that suggest it should be grouped with root vegetables like carrots and beetroot.
Yes...a squash is a botanically a fruit...but watermelons (like bananas) are actually berries. And technically vegetables don't even exist. There is no such thing as a vegetable. Not scientifically anyway. It's nothing more than a culinary term. And from a culinary perspective, a squash, like a tomato, and a zucchini, are vegetables.
Even so called "root vegetables" aren't botanically vegetables. Carrots are simply herbs with edible roots. Potatoes are flowering plants (nightshade) that have edible tubers (which are kind of like the camel's hump of a plant storing nutrients). We just discard the plant portion because it's poisonous. The potato even flowers and produces fruit. So there is even such a thing as a potato fruit.
doesn't live in a fruit bowl, needs to be cooked, used in savoury dishes. buck1017's answer is more compelling though, arguing that a vegetable is a fruit is nonsensical
Squash is not a root vegetable, even if some people consider it a root. It grows above ground, contains seeds, is a fruit, and has a root system that isn't the edible part.
I need a touch more coffee ~ Beethoven's first name, I kept typing different variations of Wolfgang trying to get it to 6 letters. Starring at the screen (talking out loud by the way) I'm like it's Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...took me almost a full minute to finally realize.
Quizmaster, when did you become British? Racquet? Egads. Soon you're going to be checking under the bonnet of the lorry when it breaks down and blocks the zebra crossing.
Yes...a squash is a botanically a fruit...but watermelons (like bananas) are actually berries. And technically vegetables don't even exist. There is no such thing as a vegetable. Not scientifically anyway. It's nothing more than a culinary term. And from a culinary perspective, a squash, like a tomato, and a zucchini, are vegetables.
Even so called "root vegetables" aren't botanically vegetables. Carrots are simply herbs with edible roots. Potatoes are flowering plants (nightshade) that have edible tubers (which are kind of like the camel's hump of a plant storing nutrients). We just discard the plant portion because it's poisonous. The potato even flowers and produces fruit. So there is even such a thing as a potato fruit.
- Bastille, "Icarus"
Great song, 10/10, would reccomend.