Are potatoes a vegetable or fruit?

While they are often considered vegetables for culinary purposes, botanically speaking, they are not fruits.

Here's why:

* Fruits develop from the ovary of a flower and contain seeds. Potatoes don't fit this definition.

* Tubers, on the other hand, are modified stems that store food for the plant.

So, while you might cook potatoes with your vegetables, they're not actually in the same botanical category.