system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Is a fruit or vegetable 'Ripe' when humans deem it fit for consumption, or is it a biological state for the plant?
gpt
We eat most fruits when they're biologically ripe. We eat most vegetables early. Broccoli and cauliflower we eat the unopened buds of their flowers; cabbages, lettuces and mustards we eat the leaves before the plant buds. We eat peas young, but most beans we let mature.