Culinary Botany: Fruit

Did you know a grain of wheat is a fruit? Explore the fascinating science behind fruits, flowers, and seeds.

Here's something worth knowing: a grain of wheat is technically a fruit. So is a tomato. So is a peach, which if you think about it is really just a beautiful and elaborately designed seed dispersal mechanism with excellent marketing.

In this installment of our Culinary Botany series we're diving into the fascinating relationship between flowers and fruits. How fruits develop, how plants use them to trick animals (including us) into doing their bidding, and what's really going on inside that tough little pit at the center of your stone fruit. Spoiler: it might be laced with cyanide.

We'll explore how different fruit types help plants move through the world, and pull back the curtain on the seed itself, which is after all the whole point of the fruit to begin with.

Come hungry to learn. This one will change the way you look at your produce aisle.