Here’s a fruit fact that might surprise you! While strawberries seem like the classic berry, they don’t actually qualify as berries in botanical terms—but bananas do.
Botanically, a berry is a fruit that develops from a single flower with one ovary and has seeds inside the flesh. Bananas meet that definition perfectly. Strawberries, however, form from a flower with multiple ovaries, making them an “aggregate fruit” instead.
So, next time you’re enjoying a banana, you can proudly say you’re eating a berry. And that strawberry shortcake? Technically, not a berry in sight!