i want to know tomato is veg ro frouit?

Answer 1

U want to know what a botanist would say?..........He will say it is a fruit .Why U ask,it is because anything which has seeds is a fruit.Did U know the fleshy part is actually the enlarged or swollen orary,yes I did write OVARY.but some fruits like the apple is the swollen thallamus.People call some fruits as vegetables because of how they use it in the kitchen to cook.

Answer 2

Tomatoes…a vegetable or a fruit? That is the question that has been burning in all of our heads since we came into this world. Actually, it is both. It has been recorded in history that in 1893, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the tomato is a vegetable. It all started with the Tariff Act of 1883 that placed an import duty on vegetables, but admitted fruits into the country without charge. So, a man by the name of Nix, sued to collect back taxes he had paid on imported tomatoes.

Nix claimed that the tomato was a fruit. He stated that vegetables are the leaves and stems of plants, while a fruit was the actual "berry" that was created. He also said the tomato has seeds, a characteristic of vegetables. Most botanists and scientists agreed with him and viewed the tomato as a fruit. They said that true fruits developed from the ovary or base of the plant, and usually did contain the seeds.

However, on May 10, 1893 the United States Supreme Court upheld the decision of the lower courts and officially named the tomato a vegetable. So, legally, the tomato is a vegetable. Whether people agree with the ruling or not, is a different story.

Answer 3

A tomato is neither a fruit or a vegetable. A tomato is a berry!

The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum, formerly Lycopersicon lycopersicum) is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, native to Central and South America, from Mexico to Peru. It is a short-lived perennial plant, grown as an annual plant, typically growing to 1-3 m in height, with a weakly woody stem that usually scrambles over other plants. It is a close relative of the potato.

The leaves are 10-25 cm long, pinnate, with 5-9 leaflets, each leaflet up to 8 cm long, with a serrated margin; both the stem and leaves are densely glandular-hairy. The flowers are 1-2 cm across, yellow, with five pointed lobes on the corolla; they are borne in a cyme of 3-12 together. The fruit is an edible, brightly coloured (usually red, from the pigment lycopene) berry, 1-2 cm diameter in wild plants, commonly much larger in cultivated forms.

Answer 4

A tomato is definately a fruit. True fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of a flower, and contain the seeds of the plant (though cultivated forms may be seedless).Some plants have a soft part which supports the seeds and is also called a 'fruit', though it is not developed from the ovary: the strawberry for example. Some things which are strictly fruits may be called 'vegetables' because they are used in savoury rather than sweet cooking. The tomato, though technically a fruit, is often USED as a vegetable.So a tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but can be used as a vegetable in cooking.

Answer 5

Unfortunately I don't remember the source of this quote but it seems to fitting not to put it in here:
The knowledgeable man knows that the tomato is a fruit,
the wise man knows not to put it into a fruit salad.

Answer 6

I know its not a "veg". Not sure about a "frouit" coz I don't know what that is!!

(it's a fruit)

Answer 7

I don't know about a frouit. But my understanding is it is a fruit.

Answer 8

Fruit

The tomato is now grown world-wide for its edible fruits, with thousands of cultivars having been selected with varying fruit types, and for optimum growth in differing growing conditions

Answer 9

it's not a frouit but it is a FRUIT. the reason being is that it's seeds are inside

Answer 10

Biologically it is a fruit, as it is developed from a flower, all things that develop from flowers are, botanically, fruit, such as cucumbers, marrows, gerkhins, but potatoes, carrots, turnips, parsnips are vegetables because they develop even if the plant doesn't flower. It doesn't matter whether you eat them raw of cooked, makes no difference.