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The tiny fruits you eat all the time

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19 Replies to “The tiny fruits you eat all the time”

  1. Hey everybody, two corrections to make on this vid: 1) When I said "pink peppercorns" I meant red peppercorns, which is what you see in the video. The product marketed as pink peppercorn is generally from a different species; 2) The apple was a bad choice of visual aid for talking about basic fruit anatomy, since the apple is actually a more complicated case. Plenty of bio folks have posted good explanations below. Sorry! Oh, and one more thing — no, I'm not offering any kind of sweepstakes. Somebody is running the same scam on my channel as they're doing on a million other channels right now where an account with my name and picture replies to you and says you've won something, send your private info to collect your winnings, etc. All you have to do is click on the user ID to see that it's not actually me. Note the lack of a check mark, no subscribers, etc. Same scam is all over YouTube right now, so beware.

  2. so un petit précision that i wanna make. i heard that in old english “corn” used to refer to any small granular object. like with corned beef, originally the “corns” were salt. at the time it was just meat covered in salt « corns » but when we look logically at it, it’s just salt-cured beef :3

    loved the vid ! also pretty sure that all brassicas(cabbage family) fit this trend too !

  4. Adam, I really love the macro camera you used. What's the make and model of it?
    Thanks!

  5. Scientifically speaking, apples 🍎 are the best example of pseudofruits or accesory fruit, same as strawberries and pears,
    The pericarp is the eye-shaped thing in the middle of the apple, and the fleshy big part is called thalamus, it is basal thick structure of the flower, that, after pollination, gets bigger and surround the pericarp.

  8. thanks for sharing. I love these educational videos. it really brings a new light to cooking.

  10. Scientific definitions do not trump other definitions. Fruit and seed as concepts predate science. So the practical or cultural or culinary definitions are not wrong they are older and describing something different. Science dosent get to usurp words and change their definitions and then say the older definitions are wrong.

  12. You thanked turnips as part of the Apiaceae, but they are actually in the mustard family, Brassicaceae. Perhaps you meant parsnips!

  13. Not sure if anyone else has mentioned this but turnips are in the mustard family Brassicaceae, not Apiaceae. 👍

  14. question for anyone in the comments: why don’t most of the fennel fruits/seeds get eaten on the plant like other fruits before they have a chance to dry out?

  16. Impressed by the snappiness of your delivery of information. Good stuff i'm subbing for more. Also i appreciate the apiaceae shoutout haha

  18. I got a sudden urge to buy a plot of land to just grow a whole bunch of celery and fennel watching your video.
    But then I realized I'm too poor ;__; .

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