FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

GRADE 3

COMPARISON

APPLE POTATO

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AN APPLE, LEMON AND POTATO

• Apple, lemon have seeds. Hence it is a fruit• Potato has no seeds hence it is a vegetable.• Tomato has seeds. It is a• fruit.

APPLE

SKIN

PULP

SEEDS

PROPERTIES OF FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

• Apple and tomato are fruits of the plant.• Potato is not a fruit. It s actually a stem that

stores the food for the plant. • The flowers of a plant form fruit.• We call some of the fruits as vegetables

because we eat them when cooked or they do not taste sweet.

TYPES OF FRUITS

• FLESHY FRUITS • DRY FRUITS

FLESHY FRUITS AND DRY FRUITS

FLESHY FRUITS• Fleshy fruits are fruits that

have pulp. • For example apple, papaya

and lemons.• Some fleshy fruits like guava

and apples have a skin that is soft and we can eat.

• Other fleshy fruits like papaya and watermelon have skin that is hard and we cannot eat.

DRY FRUITS• Dry fruits have no pulp and

usually the fruit looks like a pod, shell or nut.

• For example groundnut and peas