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An apple grows on a tree and has little seeds inside.

Why do fruits have seeds?

To grow new plants
Each seed can grow into a brand new plant, so fruit is how plants make babies. When animals eat fruit and carry the seeds away, new plants can sprout far from the parent.

Fruits like apples contain seeds because seeds are how plants make new plants, carrying everything needed to grow into a fresh tree or plant of the same kind. The sweet, juicy fruit around the seeds exists partly to attract animals, who eat the fruit and later drop or spread the seeds somewhere new.

Fruit has nothing to do with staying cold, and seeds don't make fruit taste sour — flavor comes from sugars and acids in the fruit's flesh, which is a completely separate matter from the seeds' actual job of growing new plants.

When an animal eats a fruit and later passes the seeds in its droppings far from the parent tree, that seed often gets a helpful boost of natural fertilizer right where it lands.

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