Answering Your Big Fig Questions | Vegetarian Times

Before tomato season even wraps up, fruit and veggie obsessives often find themselves moving on to another late-summer crop, figs. Your Instagram, filled with beautiful bowls of tastefully arrayed bulbs is likely evidence of that. But here’s the thing: Not everyone thinks figs are something vegans and vegetarians should be eating – and there’s some confusion about what figs technically even are in the first place (hint: not a fruit). So we’re getting figgy with it and answering some of your big fig questions.