Technically, pickles may be considered both a fruit and a vegetable. While they are made from cucumbers, which are a vegetable, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled them a ‘fruit of the vine’ because of their seeds.

Is a pickle and a cucumber a fruit?

From a culinary perspective, a fruit is an edible food that typically has seeds inside. ... This is because the cucumber is the fruit of a flowering plant and has seeds inside! So, with this in mind, a cucumber - and by definition, a pickle - is both a member of the vegetable family and the fruit family.

Is cucumber is a fruit?

The botanical classification: Cucumbers are fruit.

A botanical fruit would have at least one seed and grow from the flower of the plant. With this definition in mind, cucumbers are classified as fruit because they contain tiny seeds in the middle and grow from the flower of the cucumber plant.