
Your love for blueberries, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries runs deep. But there are tons of berry species you *won’t* find on store shelves. If you go by the botanical definition—that a berry is a pit-free, fleshy fruit produced from a single flower containing one ovary—everything from bananas to chili peppers to watermelons counts as a berry. So, with a meaning that broad, what is a berry, really? Colloquially, we tend to use the word “berry” for nutrient-rich, juicy, round, soft-fle