We are a reliable and experienced Agricultural and other commodities traders developing a growing network of trading contacts around the world         Fruits & Vegetables Please feel free to Contact Us for quotations and offers.         Fruit  normally means the fleshy seed-associated structures of certain plants that are sweet and edible in the raw state, such as apples, oranges, grapes, strawberries, juniper berries and bananas, or the similar-looking structures in other plants, even if they are non-edible or non-sweet in the raw state, such as lemons and olives. Seed-associated structures that do not fit these informal criteria are usually called by other names, such as vegetables, pods, nut, ears and cones. In biology, on the other hand, a fruit is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, mainly one or more ovaries. Taken strictly, this definition excludes many structures that are "fruits" in the common sense of the term, such as those produced by non-flowering plants (like juniper berries, which are the seed-containing female cones of conifers[1]), those that develop from many flowers fused together (like figs), and fleshy fruit-like growths that develop from other plant tissues (like cashew fruits). The term false fruit (pseudocarp, accessory fruit) is sometimes used for these structures. On the other hand, the botanical sense includes many structures that are not commonly called "fruits", such as bean pods, corn kernels, wheat grains, tomatoes, and many more. Often the botanical fruit is only part of the common fruit, or is merely adjacent to it. However, there are several variants of this definition, and none really fits the enormous variety that is found among plant fruits.[2]             Vegetable usually means an edible plant or part of a plant other than a sweet fruit or seed. However, the word is not scientific, and its meaning is largely based on culinary and cultural tradition. Therefore, the application of the word is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. For example, some people consider mushrooms to be vegetables,[1][2][3] while others consider them a separate food category.[4] Some vegetables can be consumed raw, and some may (or must) be cooked in various ways, most often in non-sweet (savory or salty) dishes. However, a few vegetables are often used in desserts and other sweet dishes, such as rhubarb pies and carrot cakes. As an adjective, the word vegetable is used in scientific and technical contexts with a different and much broader meaning, namely of "related to plants" in general, edible or not — as in vegetable matter, vegetable kingdom, vegetable origin, etc..[5] The meaning of "vegetable" as "plant grown for food" was not established until the 18th century.[6]     Please feel free to Contact Us for quotations and offers. International Organizations ******* Useful Links OECD FAO WTO  World Bank IMF Eurostat The European Union's Publications Office