me and my friend fought the whole school year over this question and i need to know!
2006-06-20 08:44:58 · 38 answers · asked by fret87 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Entertaining
fruit
2006-06-20 08:47:34 · answer #1 · answered by magict1974 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Fruit
2006-06-26 07:50:17 · answer #2 · answered by AL 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fruit
2006-06-20 09:22:12 · answer #3 · answered by lolitakali 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fruit
2006-06-20 09:06:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Botanically speaking, the tomato is a fruit and is classified as a berry. It is a fruit because it is a ripened mature ovary containing seed. One can confirm this by looking up both "fruit" and "tomato" in a dictionary. Things like peppers, eggplants and cucumbers are also fruits by this definition.
Horticulturally speaking it is defined as a vegetable for two other reasons:
1- it is a nonwoody annual (ok, what I want to know then why dont they say watermelons are vegetables?)
2- it was classified this way in 1893 by the Supreme Court for trade reasons (imposing import taxes to protect growers)
2006-06-20 08:52:43 · answer #5 · answered by slavabogu7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fruit.
2006-06-20 08:48:49 · answer #6 · answered by FnK 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tomato is a fruit, but many people say it is a vegetable. I really don't know why they say that. Not to be mean but that people who think it is a vegetable should really read information books.
2006-06-20 16:37:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is considered to be a fruit but everyone considers it a vegetable. Guess it could be both.
2006-06-20 08:47:35 · answer #8 · answered by sarteaga1970 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
fruit,but I think that it is considered a fruit because most vegetables end up green.
2006-06-20 08:53:55 · answer #9 · answered by allenrtla1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Webster's dictionary it's a fruit-like vegetable, so that makes it a veggie with fruity characteristics.
2006-06-20 08:49:21 · answer #10 · answered by yankee_blondie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Legally it's a fruit, however congress ordered it to be considered a vegetable in order to tax it.
2006-06-20 08:48:30 · answer #11 · answered by J Somethingorother 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋