Does anybody know...

[Jinx3295]

Is a coconut a fruit or a nut??? At my aunt and uncle's house, we had a serious discussion... and nne of us know the awnser!!! WE LOOKED IT UP.. some sites say they are fruit.. others say nut!!! can someone please awnser???? o_o;;;

 

[Skippy~Tama]

Hm.. Interesting quiestion! I think it's a fruit.. But I'm not sure.

 

[Jinx3295]

my dad says anut because cocnuts don't come in the exact form as they do in the store.. they actually have a harder outer shell over that one shell.... but... if it was a nut.. why does it have the white stuff.... CONFUSING!!!!!!!!!!!~

 

[tamaw/pants]

my dad says anut because cocnuts don't come in the exact form as they do in the store.. they actually have a harder outer shell over that one shell.... but... if it was a nut.. why does it have the white stuff.... CONFUSING!!!!!!!!!!!~

Well you can eat the inside of a nut [like a walnut] too.

I would say a nut.

 

[Jinx3295]

hmmn.. let's see what people say.. i think it is alittle of both.... X_X;;

 

[Skippy~Tama]

Hold on, I just thought of something...

1. 'Coconut' has the word 'Nut' in it..

2. But a coconut grows on a tree..

3. This is making my brain hurt.

I'm kind of tied here! Logicly, I don't think it could be both, and am shooting more towards fruit, but I gotta go cause this is making my head hurt.. xD

 

[Jinx3295]

why does it have nut in it??? AHHHHH!!!! ;;;;;;;

the world may never know.....

 

[Jinx3295]

hmmn... so.. who voted fruit.. and who votes nut???

 

[tamtamkitty07]

I think it's a fruit, because it grows on a tree. It just has the word nut in it because you don't wanna call it a "Cocofruit." XD

 

[Jinx3295]

hmmn... but they grow with a large shell protecting the inner coconut.. like a peanut shell

 

[pyonchit]

But.. isn't an acorn a nut? They grow on trees..

I say nut.

 

[**UrItChI**]

I'm quite sure that it is a nut, but I don't know that for sure.

Think about the textures. More nut-like, I'd say.

 

[Jinx3295]

yeah... i think it's a nut now...

 

[crazyy*tama]

I think its a nut..

 

[tamtamkitty07]

But.. isn't an acorn a nut? They grow on trees..I say nut.

Haha, forgot about that.

Maybe it is a nut, but it tastes like a fruit.

Random thing here too, I think a tomato is a vegetable.

 

[Jinx3295]

LOL...... we go from cocnut from tomatoes!!!! tomatoe's a fruit.... i think o_o..

NUUUU MORE CONFUSION!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[murcielago]

Wiki answer

 

[hanatchi99]

Hmm.. The inside is like a fruit, but the outside is like a nut.

I think it's a fruit, it has juice, and nuts can't have juice. Some fruits have hard coatings, but a coconut's coating is like a thicker, harder outside than most fruits. Maybe it's only called a coconut because the people that created that name didn't think about the inside, just the hard outside. Why don't we find some definitions.

Fruit

1. (botany) The seed-bearing part of a plant, often edible, colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization.

2. (nutrition) Any sweet, edible part of a plant that resembles fruit, even if it does not develop from a floral ovary; also used in a technically imprecise sense for some sweet or sweetish vegetables, such as rhubarb, that resemble a true fruit or are used in cookery as if they were

a fruit.

Nut

A hard-shelled seed.

Coconut

The fruit of the coco palm, Cocos nucifera, having a fibrous husk surrounding a large seed.

Now lets see. What makes it a fruit?

-The fruit of the coco palm..

-The coconut is "a sweet, edible part of a plant.."

-It's the "seed-bearing part of a plant.. "

What makes it a nut? Nothing. The "hard-shelled seed" is inside the flesh.

So, yep, it's a fruit. All definitions from Wiktionary.

 

[Jinx3295]

hmmn... it may be both... but is that even possible???

 

[crazyy*tama]

Random thing here too, I think a tomato is a vegetable.

A tomato is a fruit