If we’ve learned one thing from our Online Field Trips, it’s that food is far more exciting than it might sometimes appear.
Take peppers: when we went to St Albans to learn how peppers are grown and harvested, we had no idea that we’d be uncovering a whole world of salad subterfuge.
Because the pepper, it turns out, is a fruit, not a vegetable.
But why is that? What is a fruit? And which other fruits have been masquerading as vegetables?
Luckily, our Crunchy Peppers expert Rob was on hand to help us out, and it’s actually all very simple.
If it has grown on a plant, from a flower, and has seeds inside, then it’s a fruit.
This means that not only are peppers, tomatoes and cucumbers fruit, but so are pumpkins, butternut squash and courgettes!
You can find out much more detail in our short video ‘What is a pepper?’.
In the meantime, all this has got us to wondering: where does this leave rhubarb…?
If you know the answer, please let us know via Twitter @EatHappyProject!
