If you have a potato, it has the features/characteristics of a vegetable A potato is healthy, and it gets this from being a vegetable A vegetable gets its features/characteristics from food A vegetable can be eaten, just like food We can then say that a vegetable inherits the ability to be eaten from food And that the potato inherits this from being a vegetable The potato class inherits from the vegetable class the healthiness, but the vegetable class doesn’t inherit healthiness from the food class
