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Fruit and vegetables
Some fruit and vegetables are always countable:    Larger fruit or vegetables, that you do
> Do you like bananas?
Some are always uncountable:
> Celery is usually eaten raw.
Some may be countable or uncountable, depending on whether you are thinking of them as plants or as food and on how they are prepared as food. If you are thinking of a fruit or vegetable as a plant you are usually talking about the whole fruit or vegetable, so it will be countable:
> Plant the cabbages in rows.
not eat whole, are uncountable as food:
► duck with spring cabbage
Others maybe eaten whole (countable)...
> baked apples *■ baby carrots
... or prepared in such a way that they are not eaten whole (uncountable in British English but still countable in American English):
► stewed apple (BrE)/stewed apples {NAmE}
> grated raw carrot {BrE)/grated raw carrots (NAmE)
stone [BrE) / pil [NAmE)
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corn on the cob
sweetcorn {BrE} corn {NAmE)
aubergine (BrE) eggplant (NAmE)
yam
squash
peas and beans
avocado
a bunch of grapes
banana
berries
citrus fruits
pool I I pith \Brf)
marrow (BrE)
pumpkin
kidney beans chickpeas
(especially BrE) garbanzos (NAmE)     bean sprouts