These Wild Food Facts Will Make You Think Twice About Your Next Meal

Berry Confusing

In the botanical world, strawberries and raspberries aren’t really berries. They are derived from a single flower with more than one ovary, making them an aggregate fruit. True berries stem from one flower with one ovary—making bananas, but not raspberries, a fruit.

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