30 Different Types of Berries (and Why You Should Be Eating Each and Every One of Them)

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