Some of Vegetable and Fruits

Many of the fruits and vegetables written about on this page have grown in the wild for thousands of years. When people began to eat them as food they simply gathered the wild fruits and vegetables. Then, about 11,000 years ago people began to plant fruit and vegetables, to farm the plants and to care for them. The farmers experimented and grew new kinds of the wild fruits and vegetables.
Fruits and vegetables found growing in one part of the world were taken by explorers and traders to many other parts of the world. The fruits and vegetables were then planted and grown in many countries around the world. For example, it is believed that Christopher Columbus took pineapples to Spain from South America in the 1400s.
So where did the first fruits and vegetables of their kind come from?
First, some fruits:

In China, apricots were grown 4000 years ago and peaches over 2000 years ago.

The avocado is native to South America.

It is not known for certain where the lemon originated but India, Burma and southern China are the most likely places.

Pears grew wild in Britain.

Greece is one country where olives first grew.

Pineapples are native to Brazil.

Apricot is a fruit.It is very sweet in taste.It is grown in China over 4000 years ago


Peaches are  also type of fruits.They are sweet in taste and are grown in China over 2000 years ago

The Avocado (Persea americana) is a tree native to Central America, classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae along with cinnamon, camphor and bay laurel. Avocado or alligator pear also refers to the fruit, botanically a large berry that contains a single seed

The Pear is any of several tree and shrub species of genus Pyrus /ˈpaɪrəs/, in the family Rosaceae. It is also the name of the pomaceous fruit of these trees. Several species of pear are valued for their edible fruit, while others are cultivated as ornamental trees. The genus Pyrus is classified in subtribe Pyrinae within tribePyreae.

Some vegetables:

Cauliflower comes from China, where they were about the size of a cricket ball.

Carrots are one of the world's most popular vegetables. But did you know that until about the 1600s carrots were purple?The orange ones were grown in Holland and sold to other countries in the 1600s and 1700s.

Green beans were grown in North and South America.

Onions were grown in the Middle East thousands of years ago and slaves, building the pyramids in ancient Egypt (about 4000 years ago), ate onions, garlicand radishes.

The ancient Greeks cooked and ate wildasparagus about 2500 years ago.

The Romans grew parsnips and made them into stews and soup in Italy about 2300 years ago.

Potatoes originated in South America and were taken to England and Europe by explorer Francis Drake in the 1500s. At first people in England and Europe didn't eat the potatoes, they just grew the plant because they thought it looked pretty!

Spinach was first grown in Persia, which is now called Iran, at least 2000 years ago.

Sweet corn was given to explorer Christopher Columbus by the people of Cuba in the 1492. He took the plant back to Spain.

Tomatoes come from South America and Spanish explorers took them to Europe in the 1500s.

Is it fruit or vegetable? What is the difference between fruit and vegetables?According to The Macquarie Dictionary, a vegetable is any plant whose fruit, seeds, leaves, stems, roots or tubers are used for food.
Fruit is the edible part of a plant that develops from a flower.

For More Information visit the sites given below
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/plantsalpha.HTM
http://www.thefruitpages.com/whyfruit.shtml
http://www.thepuzzlefactory.com/