[ They sure do exist, and he even knows the term for it in Japanese cuisine. But culture and ethics aside, fruits aren't animals. They aren't sentient. They move, but they don't react, and that's the largest different to him, who takes another bite of the still smiling apple, and now half its face is gone inside of Minato's own uncaring mouth, slow chews so that he's not swallowing whole pieces of nut. ]

Things don't need a brain or nervous system to move, just chemical signals will work. Like a Venus flytrap, or Mimosa pudica.

[ Which moves at the slightest of touches, but in the end is just a plant. ]