vegetable, n.Trivia

Broccoli is the only vegetable that is also a flower

Beets have the highest sugar content of any vegetable

the pea is the oldest known vegetable

Tomatoes are both the state vegetable and state fruit of Arkansas.

Tomatoes are botanically classed as a fruit rather than a vegetable because they have seeds and grow from a flowering plant

Ancient Veggies Were Small, Unpalatable. Ancient tomatoes were the size of berries; potatoes were no bigger than peanuts. Corn was a wild grass, its tooth-cracking kernels borne in clusters as small as pencil erasers

Tomatoes were classed by the Supreme Court as a vegetable in a 1887 U.S. tariff law dispute which imposed a duty on vegetables based on the fact that they are usually served with dinner and not as a dessert

95% of the world's food needs are provided by just 30 species of plants. At least 12,650 species names have been compiled as edible.