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Berry
Bananas are berries. Strawberries are not.
Bananas are botanical berries, while strawberries are aggregate accessory fruits. The distinction depends on how a flower becomes a fruit, not on sweetness, size or the name on a grocery label.
Bananas are berries. Strawberries are not.
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Legume
Peanuts are not nuts. They are legumes, like peas and beans.
Peanuts are legumes, in the same plant family as peas and beans, rather than true botanical nuts. Their unusual feature is that the flowers develop above ground but the pods mature below it.
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1834
Ketchup was once sold as medicine.
In the 1830s, promoters presented tomatoes, tomato catsup recipes and supposed tomato extracts as remedies. The best documented commercial craze involved tomato pills, not evidence that modern bottled ketchup works as medicine.
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