Fruits are sources of many drugs. For example, morphine is made from the fruit of the opium poppy.

Certain plants of mostly cultivated varieties spontaneously produce fruits in the absence of pollination and fertilization. This is called parthenocarpy.

The principal purpose of the fruit is to protect and disseminate the seed to prevent the seed from drying until it's mature.

There are broadly two categories of fruits, which are fleshy fruits and dry fruits. An example of fleshy fruits is tomatoes. Fleshy fruits consist of a large amount of soft succulent tissue.

The shelf life of fresh fruits can be prolonged by refrigeration or by removing oxygen from their packaging or storage containers.

Most fruits develop from a single pistil, but where fruit comes from several pistils of a single flower, it may be referred to as an aggregate fruit

Some fruits form without fertilization, and an example is bananas. The process is called Parthenocarpy.

Seedless fruits like tomatoes are sometimes artificially obtained by administering plant growth substances to the ovaries in flowers

Broadly, fruits are classified into fleshy fruits and dry fruits. Fleshy fruits include berries, aggregate fruits, and more. Dry fruits include legumes, capsulate fruits, and nuts.

Pomology is the study of fruits. The source word in Latin is "pomum" which translates to fruits in English.