FRUIT

Fruit is an organ in flowering plants which is a further development of the fruit (ovary). Fruit is usually covering and protecting a seed. Various fruits and shapes of fruit can not be separated in relation to the main function of the fruit, namely as a plant seed dispenser.

Understanding the fruit in the scope of agriculture (horticulture) or food is broader than the meaning of the fruit above and is usually referred to as fruits. Fruit in this sense is not limited which is formed from the will of the fruit, but can also come from the development of other organs. Therefore, to distinguish it, the appropriate fruit according to the common sense of botany is called the true fruit.

Fruits often have economic value as food and industrial raw materials because in it stored various kinds of plant metabolism products, ranging from carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, alkaloids, to terpenes and terpenoid