This One Shocking Fact About Bananas Will Probably Blow Your Mind

This is wild.

This is a banana. But you knew that already.

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Ignore the plastic wrap.

Bananas, as you *PROBABLY* know, are a fruit, and a pretty popular one at that.

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They go great in smoothies, they're delicious on their own, and if you're Gwen Stefani, they're really fun to spell out in a song.

But I'm about to toss some banana knowledge at you that's pretty shocking. So if I were you, I would grab a chair, because it's about to get REAL.

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OK, so here's the deal. Bananas aren't just *ANY* fruit. They're technically BERRIES.

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I was shocked. Are you shocked?

Here's the 411 on berries: There are "botanical berries," which fit the scientific definition, and then fruits that are thought of as berries in the culinary sense.

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According to the New World Encyclopedia, botanical berries are fruit with a "fleshy or pulpy" single body, with the seeds within the flesh of the fruit (with usually more than one seed).

That means fruits/veggies that we normally don't think of as berries, like tomatoes and avocados, technically are berries, while raspberries and blackberries aren't *REAL* berries. Weird, huh?!

That would mean a banana, with its seeds INSIDE the single ovary wall, is a berry!

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Consider this new knowledge BERRY interesting.

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H/T BuzzFeed Community user Markie McCoy, who shared this fact!