Fruits and vegetables grow by converting sunlight into energy. Plants have chloroplast cells that use the sun's rays to make energy that they store. The chloroplast cells are green and are what makes the plants look green. Vegetables are the plant's roots, stalks, or leaves. All of there parts of the plants are used to catch more sun and then store it for later.

Fruits are the plants way of protecting and dispersing the plant's seeds. Fruits are the structures around the seeds. The include things like watermelons, grapes, green beans, and tomatoes, but also include things that we often don't think of as being fruits, such as a hazelnut, walnut, or coconut. The fruit is often sweet and nutritious so that animals will take the fruit and move it to a new area, and then the seed will end up in a new place to grow away from the adult.

Mitosis - the regular process of cell division. The seed itself requires fertilization and most fruits won't develop without seeds. The energy and matter that goes into the growing fruits and vegetables is obtained by photosynthesis just as is for any other plant tissue.