The hottest CHILE PEPPERTOMATO: Fruit or Vegetable? Ruling of UNITED STATE SUPREME court on Tomatoes. How do they grow seedless WATERMELON?How do they determine CHILI PEPPERS relative spicyness. Interesting facts about AVOCADOS.Around the world with STRAWBERRIES. How GRANNY SMITH APPLE got its name.
Botanically speaking, the tomato you eat is a fruit. A "fruit" is any fleshy material covering a seed or seeds.
Horticulturally speaking, the tomato is a vegetable plant. The plant is an annual and non-woody. Most fruits, from a horticultural perspective, are grown on
a woody plant, with the exception of strawberries.
In 1893, the UNITED STATES SUPREME court ruled the tomato was a "vegetable" and therefore subject to import taxes. The suit was brought by a consortium of growers who wanted
it declared a vegetable to protect U.S. crop development and prices. Fruits, at that time, were not subject to import taxes and foreign countries could flood the market with lower priced produce.
HOW DO THEY GROW SEEDLESS WATER MELONS?
Bees. Yes the bees do it. They cross pollinate. The seedless water melon plant is sterile and can be pollinated only by crossing it with pollen from a regular seeded water melon. In order to accomplish this, growers plant
seeded and seedless plants adjacent to one another and, with the help of pollen-carrying bees, they pollinate seedless plants to produce seedless watermelons.
How they determine CHILI PEPPERS relatives spicyness or how 
they are?
How is their "heat" measured? The Scoville scale is used. It was developed by Willbur Scoville in the 1920's. The Scoville rating is obtained by high pressure liquid chromatograpy. The Scoville measurement is an actual scintific measurement of the amount
of CAPSAICIN contained in the pepper. Although there are at least five types of capsaicin contained in a pepper, the liquid chromatography measures these all at once.
AVOCADO
Avocado was discovered in Mexico approximately 291 B.C. Archaeologists in Peru have reportedly found avocado seeds BURIED WITH MUMMIES dating to 750 B.C.
WHY THEY CALL HASS AVOCADO "HASS".
A California postman, Rudolph Hass dicovered this variety with the help of his children who by chance found it growing in La Habra, California. The origninal Hass tree in La Habra is still standing.
AROUND THE WORLD WITH STRAWBERRIES
If all the strawberries produced in California this year (1996) were laid berry to berry they'd wrap around the world 15 times. That's enough strawberries to provide every U.S. household with 12 pint baskets.
How the granny smith apple got its name?
The tart green apples were first grown by gray-haired grandma Maria Ann Smith in a subrb of Sydney Australia.
BANANAS
Bananas were dicovered by Alexander The Great in India. They were brought to United States in 1830 from central America.
MANGO 
Yes Mango is the number one selling fruit in the World. India is the biggest producer of mangoes in the World.