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Placenta and pericarp are both edible portions in
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A true fruit consists of a pericarp (fruit wall) formed from ovary wall and seeds formed from ovules. Pericarp is divisible into epicarp, mesocarp and endocarp. Tomato is a berry fruit derived from bicarpellary, syncarpous, bi-to tetralocular ovary with swollen placentae. Berry consists of a membranous skin represented by epicarp. Mesocarp is the middle fleshy part. Endocarp, septa and placentae are pulpy and edible. All parts of the fruit, except the small seeds, are edible.