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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Apple and Carrot Quencher      Origin: American	Apple Muffins with Ground Ivy      Origin: Denmark	Arni Souvla (Skewered Lamb)      Origin: Cyprus
Apple and Cinnamon Muffins      Origin: Britain	Apple Muse      Origin: England	Aromatic Pork and Potato Casserole      Origin: Ireland
Apple and Cottage Cheese Muffins (Äppelmuffins med KESO)      Origin: Sweden	Apple Nut Cobbler      Origin: Britain	Arrowroot Halwa      Origin: India
Apple and Cream Pie      Origin: American	Apple Pasty      Origin: England	Arrowroot Sauce      Origin: British
Apple and Honey Sponge      Origin: Manx	Apple Pie      Origin: Britain	Arroz con Leche (Ecuadorian Rice Pudding)      Origin: Ecuador
Apple and Lavender Jelly      Origin: Britain	Apple Pie      Origin: Britain	Arroz con Leche (Rice with Milk)      Origin: Colombia
Apple and Lemon Fruit Leather      Origin: British	Apple Pie Smoothie      Origin: American	Arroz con leche sin azúcar de absorción rápida (Sweet Rice Pudding, made by Rapid Absorption)      Origin: Spain
Apple and Mint Jelly      Origin: Britain	Apple Preserve      Origin: Britain	Arroz de Coco e Papaia (Rice with Coconut and Papaya)      Origin: Angola
Apple and Pear Harvest Pie      Origin: South Africa	Apple Rose Tarts      Origin: Britain	Arroz doce (Sao Tomean Rice Pudding)      Origin: Sao Tome
Apple and Pear Tarte Tatin      Origin: France	Apple Sauce      Origin: Britain	Arroz Integral com Mantiega de Amendoim e Bananas (Brown Rice with Peanut Mantiega and Bananas)      Origin: Angola
Apple and Plum Charlotte      Origin: Britain	Apple Tansy      Origin: British	Arroz Rojo (Mexican Red Rice)      Origin: Mexico
Apple and Potato Cake      Origin: Ireland	Apple Tart Spiced with Herb Bennet Root      Origin: Britain	Aruba Chicken      Origin: Aruba
Apple and Rhubarb Compote      Origin: Britain	Apple, Chestnut and Mugwort Stuffing for Roast Goose      Origin: Britain	Aruba Green Seasoning      Origin: Aruba
Apple and Whitebeam Berry Pie      Origin: Ireland	Apple, Cider and Onion Soup      Origin: British	Aruba Mango Chutney      Origin: Aruba
Apple and Wild Service Berry Pie      Origin: Ireland	Apple, Pear and Cinnamon Crumble      Origin: British	Aruban Curried Chicken      Origin: Aruba
Apple Butter      Origin: American	Appulmoy (Apple Stew)      Origin: England	Aruban Curried Goat      Origin: Aruba
Apple Butter      Origin: Britain	Apricot and Bergamot Chicken      Origin: Britain	Aruban Curried Mutton      Origin: Aruba
Apple Butter Squares      Origin: American	Apricot Betty      Origin: British	Aruban Iced Coconut Soup      Origin: Aruba
Apple Cake      Origin: British	Apricot Blatjang      Origin: South Africa	Ash Guznh Mazndrana (Mazandarani Style Nettle Soup)      Origin: Iran
Apple Cake      Origin: Ireland	Apricot Char-grilled Mackerel      Origin: Fusion	Ashkenazi Charoset      Origin: Jewish
Apple Charlotte      Origin: Britain	Apricot Chutney      Origin: Britain	Asian Duck Curry      Origin: Fusion
Apple Charlotte      Origin: Britain	Apricot Compote      Origin: Britain	Asparagus in Egg Sauce      Origin: Britain
Apple Cheesecake      Origin: Britain	Apricot Crumble      Origin: British	Asparagus in Orange Sauce      Origin: Spain
Apple Cheesecakes      Origin: Ireland	Apricot Jam      Origin: Britain	Asparagus Soup      Origin: Britain
Apple Coleslaw      Origin: Britain	Apricot Kolaches      Origin: Czech	Assabeh Tamr (Date Fingers)      Origin: Arabic
Apple Compote      Origin: Britain	Apricot Nectarine Smoothie      Origin: American	Assegas n Tajin s Ifrawen (Camel tagine with dried apricots)      Origin: Western Sahara
Apple Crumble      Origin: British	Apricot Pinwheels      Origin: British	Astelpajusorbee (Sea-buckthorn Sorbet)      Origin: Estonia
Apple Dicky      Origin: England	Apricot Preserve      Origin: British	Aşure (Noah's Pudding)      Origin: Northern Cyprus
Apple Fool      Origin: Britain	Apricot Sorbet      Origin: British	Atún Imperial (Imperial Tuna)      Origin: Peru
Apple Juice Brined Turkey      Origin: American	Aprikosen-Torte (Apricot Torte)      Origin: Germany	Attar Syrup      Origin: Middle East
Apple Juice Caramels      Origin: Britain	Arán Breac (Speckled Bread)      Origin: Ireland	Attiéké et Aloko Poisson (Attieke and Fish Aloko)      Origin: Niger
Apple Kesari with Nutmeg      Origin: India	Ardshane House Irish Stew      Origin: Ireland	Aubergine and Mozzarella Sandwiches      Origin: Britain
Apple Marmalade      Origin: Britain	Arkansas Cheesecake      Origin: American
Apple Miroton      Origin: Britain	Arni Gemisto me Horta ke Feta (Leg of Lamb Stuffed with Greens and Feta)      Origin: Greece

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