Fruit type and edible part of different crops
All cereal crops and grasses (e.g., rice, wheat, maize): The fruit type is caryopsis; the economic part is the endosperm and embryo of the grain.
Most leguminous crops like gram, pea, arhar: The fruit type is a legume or pod; the economic part is the seed or cotyledons.
Groundnut: The fruit is a lomentum (a type of legume); the economic part is the seed/cotyledons.
Mango: A drupe; the edible portion is the mesocarp (the fleshy middle layer).
Ber, Plum, Date Palm: These are also drupe fruits; the edible parts include the epicarp and mesocarp.
Tomato, Grape, Brinjal, Banana, Chilli: These are berries; the economic parts are the pericarp and placenta.
Papaya: A berry; the edible portion is the mesocarp.
Citrus species (e.g., orange, lemon): The fruit is a hesperidium; the edible part is the endocarpic juicy hairs.
Pomegranate: Classified as a balusta; the edible part is the aril (the juicy covering of seeds).
Apple: A pome; the edible portion is the fleshy thalamus (receptacle).
Bael: Not distinctly classified above, but the edible part is both mesocarp and endocarp.
Cucurbits (e.g., watermelon, cucumber, pumpkin): The fruit is a pepo; the edible part includes the epicarp and mesocarp.
Coconut: Botanically a nut; the edible part is the endosperm (both the water and the white kernel).
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