The Ultimate Guide to Culinary Cutting Terms

🍌A banana is considered a berry in botanical terms because it develops from a single flower with one ovary, has a soft skin, and its fleshy interior contains seeds embedded in the flesh. Unlike the common culinary understanding of a berry, botanical berries have specific criteria that include a soft, fleshy outer wall that ripens into the pericarp (the fruit wall) and seeds within the fleshy pulp 🍓Strawberries and raspberries aren't really berries in the botanical sense. They are derived from