Eggplant: The Fruit – Harvest to Table
The eggplant is a fruit not a vegetable. Botanically speaking a fruit is the ripened ovary–including the seeds–of a flowering plant. That means that many foods called vegetables when cooking are actually fruits. That list would include squash, pumpkin, cucumber, sweet pepper, tomato and eggplant. Does that make ratatouille technically a kind of fruit sald?