Honestly, does it even matter? If you’re trying to eat healthier, you should be eating both. The distinction is mostly a fun party trick. But it’s a good reminder that the world isn’t always what it seems.
A pepper can be a fruit that tastes like a vegetable. A tomato can be a fruit that was legally deemed a vegetable. And a five-year-old can bite into a lie and tell you the honest truth about it. That’s the real difference.
So go ahead. Call a carrot a root. Call a bell pepper a rebel. But whatever you do, don’t put a raw onion in a fruit smoothie. Some lines were never meant to be crossed.
