A couple of questions

Are corn kernels berries?

It is not a berry, but a kind of fruit called a caryopsis, which is a seed surrounded by an extremely thin and usually inedible layer. Each kernel of a corn cob is a fruit, and it looks like one fruit because they are all attached to the same stem, being the cob.

Are corn kernels fruit?

Corn, Zea mays, belongs to the Poaceae family, and while eaten sometimes as a vegetable and sometimes as a grain, it is actually classified by botanists as a fruit, as are tomatoes, green peppers, cucumbers, zucchini and other squashes.

Is corn a berry?

“Corn is a seed derived from the flower/ovary of the corn plant,” he says, “so is technically a fruit.” More specifically, corn is a caryopsis, which is a type of fruit in which the seed coat is tightly fused with the pericarp (that's the fleshy bit, like the part of a peach that you eat).

What is a corn kernel classified as?

The corn kernel itself (where popcorn comes from) is considered a grain. To be more specific, this form of corn is a “whole” grain. To complicate things a little more, many grains including popcorn are considered to be a fruit.

Is corn kernel a nut?

The answer to your question depends, but corn definitely isn't a nut, as it lacks a hard, inedible shell.

Are grains fruits?

So grains are fruits (ie. they are the mature, seed bearing part of a flowering plant). The term vegetable generally refers to other plant parts such as roots, leaves and stems. As has been mentioned, the term fruit has a different meaning culinary practise than it does in biology.

Is tomato a fruit or a veggie?

To a botanist, a fruit is an entity that develops from the fertilized ovary of a flower. This means that tomatoes, squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, corn kernels, and bean and pea pods are all fruits; so are apples, pears, peaches, apricots, melons and mangos.

Is a pepper a berry?

Tomatoes, peppers, cranberries, eggplants and kiwis come from a flower with one ovary, and so are also berries, she said. Other plants, such as the strawberry and the raspberry, have flowers with more than one ovary.