Punny Produce
Botanical or Culinary?
Supermarket Science
Around the World
Sweet & Savory
200

This leafy green is often used to tell someone to calm down, usually paired with "out".

What is KALE?

200

Botanically a berry, this red item is often mistaken for a vegetable and used as the base for marinara.

What is a TOMATO?

200

This is the only fruit with it's seeds on the outside.

What is a STRAWBERRY?

200
Known as the "King of Fruits" is Southeast Asia, it is famous for its powerful, pungent odor.

What is DURAN?

200
According to the famous proverb, eating one of these a day keeps the doctor away. 

What is an APPLE?

400

What did the lettuce say to the celery when it wanted to stop talking?

What is LETTUCE be quiet?

400

Though treated like a crisp salad ingredient, this long green item is technically a fruit from the gourd family.

What is a CUCUMBER?

400
Apples float in water because roughly 25% of their volume is made up of this.

What is AIR?

400
Originating in Central and South America, this creamy green fruit is the star of guacamole.

What is AVACADO?

400
This popular green dip's name comes from an Aztec word meaning "avacado sauce."

Guacamole

600

If a friend is acting wild and crazy, you might call them this fruit.

What is a BANANA?

600

Though loved as an orange vegetable favorite, this crisp veggie is technically classified as a root.

What is a CARROT?

600

This spiky tropical fruit up to two years to grow a single full-sized yield.

What is PINEAPPLE?

600
This fuzzy fruit was originally named the "Chinese Gooseberry" before being rebranded by New Zeland growers.

What is a KIWIFRUIT?

600

Popeye the Sailor Man famously gained superhuman strength by eating cans of this leafy green.

What is SPINACH?
800
The official vegetable of people who really love to party.

What is a "TURNIP?"

800

Commonly used as spicy cooking ingredients, jalapenos and habaneros belong to this botanical classification.

What are FRUITS or BERRIES?

800
Bananas are naturally high in this element, giving them a slight (but harmless) level of natural radiation.

What is POTASSIUM?

800

This bright pink, scaly fruit grows on a specific type of cactus.

What is DRAGON FRUIT?

800

This classic French vegetable stew features eggplant, zucchini, peppers, and tomatoes.

What is RATATOUILLE?

1000

What would a piece of produce say when falling in love?

Love you a whole BUNCH or BUNCHES!

1000

Rhubarb is legally classified as fruit in the US for tariff purposes, but botanically it is in this part of the plant. 

What is the STALK or stem?

1000
This vegetable was the very first food to be successfully grown in space aboard the Shuttle Columbia in 1995.

What is the POTATO?

1000
The world's most expensive melon, the Yubari King, is grown exclusively in this country.

What is JAPAN?

1000

In the movie Shrek, the title character famously compares ogres to this layered root vegetable. 

What is the ONION?