Do you prefer fruit or vegetables?

[SpriggyTheHedgehog]

Boring question I know but I'm curious.

I loved fruit as a child. I ate it constantly. We had an excellent fruit shop where I lived and I regularly devoured apples, kiwis and kumquats and other assorted fruits. I liked some vegetables too but not nearly so many as in adulthood.

Now I much prefer vegetables. I'll eat almost any vegetable in large quantities but I'm really not a big fan of fruit. I love bananas(if still pretty green) I enjoy the occasional piece of apple, I like strawberries, blackberries, mango, grapes,an occasional Kiwi and peaches but don't eat any of them very often. Citrus fruit is too intense for me now. Someone bought me some raspberries recently and I have absolutely no desire to eat them.(Don't worry, I'll probably freeze them and put them in something.)

Are you a fruit bat or a veggie lover?

Veggie lover. Never eat fruit.

Vegetables.

Fruit in its natural form makes my throat swell and itch.

I love banana milkshakes tough and cherry Pepsi max!

Vegetables, mostly green ones.

Oh, vegetables without a doubt. Nothing better than 5 different ones on a Sunday roast and I love a veggie starter in a fine dining restaurant which had made a vegetable the star of the dish.

I do like fruit too but can take it or leave it.

Veg all the way for me. I rarely eat fruit - maybe an apple or banana a week and a few raisins here and there... I eat quite a bit of salad veg though (tomatoes, cucumber, peppers etc.) which I guess are fruits, strictly speaking.

Veggies! Have to make myself eat fruit I don't enjoy it at all.

I like both but I probably eat more vegetables. I’m not keen on the run of the mill fruits like apples. I prefer things like fresh mango and pineapple which is a bit more expensive to buy so I just get them weekly instead of daily. Broccoli, carrots, potatoes, peas etc are eaten daily in my house

Fruit - can’t get enough of it. Had about five different types for breakfast

Veggies all the way. They make up a large part of every meal for me.
I wouldn’t eat fruit as a meal, so snacking on it between meals just seems like a waste of calories to me! Plus I don’t like it very much.

Veg.
I find fruit too sweet.
We have about 8-10 portions of veg a day

Vegetables. Fruit's a faff and I'm not convinced about its nutritional value; it seems to me it's largely sugar – anyway, it gives me a sugar rush and doesn't fill me up at all.

Having said that, I probably have one piece most days, but we order a fruit and veg box, so it's always in – if I had to go out and buy it I don't think I would. I only eat easy things like apples and bananas though, nothing you have to get in a mess peeling like oranges or anything that needs prepping and chopping.

I love cooking with veg, though, and sometimes I want nothing more than a tray of baked mixed veg with some chickpeas and feta.

P.S Just to reassure people I am not saying that one choice is superior to the other. I'm just curious. I'd love to be able to eat more fruit but unfortunately it doesn't like me much either. I can only eat about two portions or I'll be spending the rest of the day in the bathroom.

Veg for me. I have to make myself eat fruit. I take a tupperware box of cut up fruit that I can pick at throughout the day at my desk, but if I took a whole apple or orange instead, I know I would just end up bringing it home again.

Hang on - on second thoughts is wine technically fruit?

I've been a vegetarian for over 20 years, but still get most of my 5 a day from fruit and salad! I have come to eat most vegetables as an adult, but I far prefer them in recipes rather than as a side. I only really eat side veg with Sunday dinner or bangers and mash, for example.

Definitely veggies, I love veg!

I rarely eat fruit but eat loads of vegetables. I do worry I should be eating both.

I love veg in big quantities, never been a lover of fruit i only eat banana's and strawberries

I love both but find it easier to eat a lot of fruit because it needs less prep. So today my meals will include:
breakfast: banana plus mixed berries
snack: grapes
lunch: main course ~2 servings veg and dried mango
snack: raspberries
dinner: ~ 2 servings veg and 1 serving fruit

So, 6 servings fruit and 4 servings veg. Most of the veg needed cooking and even those that didn't (I've just had some guacamole and a tomato salsa as part of my lunch) needed more preparation than the fruit which just needed picking out of the fruit bowl. I know we're suppose to eat more veg than fruit, so, those of you who don't eat veg, what do you eat as veg based snacks (and breakfast)?

Veg, broccoli and cauliflower are the best! Hmmmmmmmmm can sit and eat a bowl full.
Though i do love grapes, can eat a whole box

Vegetables - but I do like fruit when it's more like a sweet and savoury accompaniment, if that makes sense?

For example, one of my favourite things is chicken where I've roasted some Rhubarb sticks in with it, I'd cook cherries with something like duck, I make a salad dressing with oil, vinegar, orange juice and Thyme and a good salad always includes two types of fruit, that kind of thing.

Oh, and my homemade blackberry, elderflower and lemon jam is used (with Thyme and Rosemary) for roast lamb as much as DP likes dolloping it on croissants (yuk).

The only sweet, fruity thing I make is a fruit salad breakfast in summer with raspberries, cherries and strawberries from the garden, together with nectarines, yoghurt and assorted edible flowers/baby sprigs of mint. It's how I snared DP

Hang on - on second thoughts is wine technically fruit?

This is another bug bear. Our culinary divisions of 'fruit' and 'veg' have no botanical basis. We eat lots of fruits as veg (famously tomatoes but also aubergine, courgettes, peppers, avocado, pumpkins and squash, peas, sweetcorn, olives, okra, beans, chickpeas etc etc) but also eat rhubarb as a fruit (even though it's a stem). Some vegetables (things like sweet potato, beetroot and carrots) have higher sugar content than many berries. So why is one considered 'better' than the other?

Ooooooo both couldn't live without raspberries, blueberries and strawberries. Love bananas, apples and pineapples too. Love a home made fresh fruit salad with fresh fruit juice poured over.

Also a huge veg lover and can't have a meal without a good portion of veg or salad.

I sound super healthy based on the above but I'm not, slightly over weight and a huge lover of food in general..

darlingnikita that's exactly what I made last night. Heaven in a roasting dish

Never eat fruit, so it must be vegetables.

Not that fussed about them either, though.