Fruit are the means by which angiosperms disseminate their seeds. Edible fruits in particular have long propagated using the movements of humans and other animals in a symbiotic relationship that is the means for seed dispersal for the one group and nutrition for the other; humans, and many other animals, have become dependent on fruits as a source of food. Consequently, fruits account for a substantial fraction of the world's agricultural output, and some (such as the apple and the pomegranate) have acquired extensive cultural and symbolic meanings.

In common language and culinary usage, fruit normally means the seed-associated fleshy structures (or produce) of plants that typically are sweet (or sour) and edible in the raw state, such as apples, bananas, grapes, lemons, oranges, and strawberries. In botanical usage, the term fruit also includes many structures that are not commonly called as such in everyday language, such as nuts, bean pods, corn kernels, tomatoes, and wheat grains.

Many common language terms used for fruit and seeds differ from botanical classifications. For example, in botany, a fruit is a ripened ovary or carpel that contains seeds, e.g., an orange, pomegranate, tomato or a pumpkin. A nut is a type of fruit (and not a seed), and a seed is a ripened ovule.

In culinary language, a fruit is the sweet- or not sweet- (even sour-) tasting produce of a specific plant (e.g., a peach, pear or lemon); nuts are hard, oily, non-sweet plant produce in shells (e.g. hazelnut, acorn). Vegetables, so-called, typically are savory or non-sweet produce (e.g. zucchini, lettuce, broccoli, and tomato). But some may be sweet-tasting (sweet potato).

Examples of botanically classified fruit that are typically called vegetables include cucumber, pumpkin, and squash (all are cucurbits); beans, peanuts, and peas (all legumes); and corn, eggplant, bell pepper (or sweet pepper), and tomato. Many spices are fruits, botanically speaking, including black pepper, chili pepper, cumin and allspice. In contrast, rhubarb is often called a fruit when used in making pies, but the edible produce of rhubarb is actually the leaf stalk or petiole of the plant. Edible gymnosperm seeds are often given fruit names, e.g., ginkgo nuts and pine nuts.

Botanically, a cereal grain, such as corn, rice, or wheat is a kind of fruit (termed a caryopsis). However, the fruit wall is thin and fused to the seed coat, so almost all the edible grain-fruit is actually a seed.

he outer layer, often edible, of most fruits is called the pericarp. Typically formed from the ovary, it surrounds the seeds; in some species, however, other structural tissues contribute to or form the edible portion. The pericarp may be described in three layers from outer to inner, i.e., the epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp. Fruit that bear a prominent pointed terminal projection is said to be beaked

Consistent with the three modes of fruit development, plant scientists have classified fruits into three main groups: simple fruits, aggregate fruits, and multiple (or composite) fruits. The groupings reflect how the ovary and other flower organs are arranged and how the fruits develop, but they are not evolutionarily relevant as diverse plant taxa may be in the same group.

Simple fruit are the result of the ripening-to-fruit of a simple or compound ovary in a single flower with a single pistil. In contrast, a single flower with numerous pistils typically produces an aggregate fruit; and the merging of several flowers, or a 'multiple' of flowers, results in a 'multiple' fruit. A simple fruit is further classified as either dry or fleshy.

Berries are a type of simple fleshy fruit that issue from a single ovary. (The ovary itself may be compound, with several carpels.) The botanical term true berry includes grapes, currants, cucumbers, eggplants (aubergines), tomatoes, chilli peppers, and bananas, but excludes certain fruits that are called "-berry" by culinary custom or by common usage of the term – such as strawberries and raspberries. Berries may be formed from one or more carpels (i.e., from the simple or compound ovary) from the same, single flower. Seeds typically are embedded in the fleshy interior of the ovary.

Aggregate Fruit, also called an aggregation, or etaerio; develops from a single flower that presents numerous simple pistils. Each pistil contains one carpel; together, they form a fruitlet. The ultimate (fruiting) development of the aggregation of pistils is called an aggregate fruit, etaerio fruit, or simply an etaerio.

Hybrid fruit are created through the controlled speciation of fruits that creates new varieties and cross-breeds. Hybrids are grown using plant propagation to create new cultivars. This may introduce an entirely new type of fruit or improve the properties of an existing fruit.

Accessory Fruit Fruit may incorporate tissues derived from other floral parts besides the ovary, including the receptacle, hypanthium, petals, or sepals. Accessory fruits occur in all three classes of fruit development – simple, aggregate, and multiple. Accessory fruits are frequently designated by the hyphenated term showing both characters. For example, a pineapple is a multiple-accessory fruit, a blackberry is an aggregate-accessory fruit, and an apple is a simple-accessory fruit.

A large variety of fruits – fleshy (simple) fruits from apples to berries to watermelon; dry (simple) fruits including beans and rice and coconuts; aggregate fruits including strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, pawpaw; and multiple fruits such as pineapple, fig, mulberries – are commercially valuable as human food. They are eaten both fresh and as jams, marmalade and other fruit preserves. They are used extensively in manufactured and processed foods (cakes, cookies, baked goods, flavourings, ice cream, yogurt, canned vegetables, frozen vegetables and meals) and beverages such as fruit juices and alcoholic beverages (brandy, fruit beer, wine). Spices like vanilla, black pepper, paprika, and allspice are derived from berries. Olive fruit is pressed for olive oil and similar processing is applied to other oil-bearing fruits and vegetables. Some fruits are available all year round, while others (such as blackberries and apricots in the UK) are subject to seasonal availability.

Typically, many botanical fruits – "vegetables" in culinary parlance – (including tomato, green beans, leaf greens, bell pepper, cucumber, eggplant, okra, pumpkin, squash, zucchini) are bought and sold daily in fresh produce markets and greengroceries and carried back to kitchens, at home or restaurant, for preparation of meals.

The alphabetical list of all the fruit-based recipes on this site follows, (limited to 100 recipes per page). There are 5021 recipes in total:

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'West Indian' Mulled Wine      Origin: Fusion	Achard de pahua confit (Achard of Confit of Pahua)      Origin: Tahiti	Air Fryer Corn on the Cob      Origin: Britain
Äppelkuch (Luxembourg Apple Cake)      Origin: Luxembourg	Achards de papaye verte (Green Papaya Pickles)      Origin: Mayotte	Air Fryer Green Banana Plantain Chips      Origin: Fusion
�°C6;blekage (Danish Apple Cake)      Origin: Denmark	Achari Murgh (Achari Chicken)      Origin: Britain	Air Fryer Honey-glazed Ham      Origin: Britain
'Ika Mata (Tokelauan Style Raw Fish)      Origin: Tokelau	Achari Roast Chicken      Origin: Pakistan	Air Fryer Key Lime Cupcakes      Origin: America
'Ika Mata (Kiribati Style Raw Fish)      Origin: Kiribati	Achiote Paste      Origin: Mexico	Air Fryer Lemon Butterfly Cakes      Origin: Britain
'Ika Mata (Tuvaluan Raw Fish)      Origin: Tuvalu	Achiote Paste      Origin: Nicaragua	Air Fryer Moroccan Spiced Chicken Wings      Origin: Britain
'Ika Mata (Cook Island Style Raw Fish)      Origin: Cook Islands	Ackee and Callaloo Bake      Origin: Jamaica	Air Fryer Oaty Banana Blueberry Muffins      Origin: Britain
'Marmalade on toast' porridge      Origin: Britain	Ackee and Saltfish      Origin: Jamaica	Air Fryer Orange Chicken      Origin: Fusion
'Ota (Raw Fish)      Origin: Tokelau	Ackee Dip      Origin: Mexico	Air Fryer Quick Christmas Cake      Origin: Britain
'Ota 'Ika (Niuean Raw Fish)      Origin: Niue	Açucarinhas (Coconut and Sugar Biscuits)      Origin: Sao Tome	Air Fryer Sausage Rolls      Origin: Britain
'Ota 'Ika (Tongan Raw Fish)      Origin: Tonga	Ad Aves Hircosas Omni Genere (How to Prepare 'High' Birds of Any Kind)      Origin: Roman	Air Fryer Toasted Crumpets      Origin: Britain
2-Minute Lemon Cheesecake      Origin: Britain	Ad Digestionem (An Aid to Digestion)      Origin: Roman	Air Fryer White Fish      Origin: Britain
3-Step Blueberry Cheesecake      Origin: American	Adaka Roti      Origin: Sri Lanka	Ají de Tamarillo (Ecuadorian Tree Tomato Hot Sauce)      Origin: Ecuador
7-Up Lemon Cheesecake with Strawberry Glaze      Origin: American	Adenydd Cath Fôr gyda Saws Tartar Cyflym (Fried Skate Wings with Quick Home-made Tartar Sauce)      Origin: Welsh	Aji Verde (Spicy Peruvian Green Sauce)      Origin: Peru
8 Minute Cheesecake      Origin: American	Admiral Sauce      Origin: Britain	Ajlouke et Potiron (Pumpkin Dip)      Origin: Tunisia
9-minute Microwave Pineapple Cake      Origin: American	Adobo Sauce      Origin: Mexico	Ajvar (Aubergine and Pepper Dip)      Origin: Serbia
A Delicious German Pudding-sauce      Origin: Britain	Adobo Valentine Lamb      Origin: American	Akoho sy Voanio (Chicken in Coconut Milk)      Origin: Madagascar
A German Custard Pudding Sauce      Origin: Britain	Adobong Pato a la Moja (Duck Adobo with Pineapple and Dates)      Origin: Philippines	Akutekarsh (Chicken with Nut Sauce)      Origin: Abkhazia
A Messe of Greens      Origin: Britain	Afalau Sur Bach wedi Piclo (Pickled Crabapples)      Origin: Welsh	Akwadu (Baked Bananas with Lemon Juice and Coconut)      Origin: Equatorial Guinea
A Potage of Roysons (A Pudding of Raisins)      Origin: England	Afghani Chicken Curry      Origin: Pakistan	Al Machboos (Emirati Spiced Rice With Chicken)      Origin: UAE
A second sort of lemon cheesecakes      Origin: Britain	Afia Efere (White Soup)      Origin: Nigeria	Al Rangina (Dates in Butter Sauce)      Origin: Saudi Arabia
Aadun      Origin: Nigeria	African-style Barbecue Sauce      Origin: African Fusion	Aladdins drömkaka (Aladdin's Dream Cake)      Origin: Sweden
Aaloo Gosht (Mutton Curry with Potatoes)      Origin: Pakistan	Agidi (Fermented Cornflour Pudding)      Origin: Nigeria	Alas con mostaza (Mustard Chicken Wings)      Origin: Mexico
Aam Aur Podina ki Chatni (Mango and Mint Chutney)      Origin: India	Agidi Jollof      Origin: Nigeria	Alaskan Goose Barnacles      Origin: America
Aam Ka Meetha Achaar (Sweet Mango Chutney)      Origin: India	Ahi Poke Bowl      Origin: Hawaii	Albóndigas al curry (Curried meatballs)      Origin: Spain
Aam Kulfi (Mango Ice Cream)      Origin: India	Ahi Poke Bowl      Origin: Kiribati	Alcapurrias de Jueyes (Crab-Stuffed Fritters)      Origin: Puerto Rico
Abacate Recheado com Atum (Avocado Stuffed with Tuna)      Origin: Guinea-Bissau	Ai Manas (Chilli Sauce with Eggs)      Origin: East Timor	Alfajores      Origin: Welsh (Patagonia)
Abernethy Biscuits      Origin: Scotland	Ailes de raie sauce au beurre noir (Skate wings with black butter sauce)      Origin: France	Alfajores de Mandioca (Cassava Alfajores)      Origin: Argentina
Abgousht (Persian Beef Stew)      Origin: Iran	Air Fryer Banana Bread      Origin: Britain	Algerian Beghrir (Honeycomb Pancakes)      Origin: Algeria
Abrikossuppe (Apricot Soup)      Origin: Denmark	Air Fryer Blueberry Baked Oats      Origin: Britain	Algerian Dried Apricots in Syrup      Origin: Algeria
Absolutely Delicious Cheesecake      Origin: American	Air Fryer Breaded Cod      Origin: America	Algerian Saffron and Raisin Couscous      Origin: Algeria
Accra Banana Peanut Cake      Origin: Ghana	Air Fryer Carrot, Almond and Pine Nut Cake      Origin: Britain	Aliter Avem (Birds, Another Way)      Origin: Roman
Accras de Morue      Origin: French Guiana	Air Fryer Cheesecake      Origin: Britain
Achaari Jhinga (Indian Pickled Prawns)      Origin: India	Air Fryer Cheesecake II      Origin: Britain

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