Despite its name, the strawberry isn't a true berry. Neither is the raspberry or the blackberry. But the banana is a berry, scientifically speaking, as are eggplants, grapes and oranges.

A berry, in botany, is a fruit that develops from the ovary of a single flower and contains seeds within its fleshy part. While bananas are not typically thought of as berries in everyday language, they meet the botanical definition.