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I couldn‘t get past 4. Either Neal or I don‘t know our vegetables.

Fruits and berries are not vegetables. But potato man is :)

Tomato is a berry.

I did not select tomato.

This is not true. E.g. zucchinis/courgettes are fruits but are widely considered vegetables: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zucchini

Same for eggplants/aubergines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggplant

That is correct. "Vegetable" is not a category which would be useful to a biologist.

A common mistake is to consider a tomato a vegetable, perhaps it might help.

Nah.A tomato is clearly a vegetable like all the other plant parts. "Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food." All other definitions are just arbitrary and there is no reason why a tomato should not be considered a vegetable.

The definition you cite is also arbitrary, and language changes over time, and over regions.

For what it's worth, I consider tomato a vegetable too, and so, I failed the level initially. Which, to be honest, mirrors my experience with real captchas - I usually have a disagreement with them, regarding what counts as part of the traffic light etc.

Have you considered you might be a robot?

I also got stuck there. If a site gives me that, either some customer is paying me to use that site (I'll paste the screenshot into an AI) or I'll use another site.

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