Tag: Fig controversy

According to the Mayo Clinic, a vegetarian diet is a meal plan consisting mostly of foods that come from plants, including fruits. This means that, at its most basic level, fruits are absolutely vegetarian.

The common fig is not actually a fruit but a collection of inverted flowers called a syconium. This unique structure is at the heart of the long-standing debate asking: are figs technically not vegan? The answer lies in a fascinating symbiotic relationship between the fig and a tiny pollinator wasp.