Bananas Are Berries But Strawberries Somehow Aren't

Botany quietly flipped everything you learned about fruit.

This sounds like a wind-up, but it's true. To a botanist, a banana counts as a berry.

A true berry grows from one flower with one ovary and holds its seeds inside the flesh.

Strawberries fail that test. Their tiny seeds sit on the outside, so they're not berries at all.

Grapes, tomatoes and even avocados make the berry list too. The fruit aisle is stranger than it looks.