2006-07-02 15:58:52 · 50 answers · asked by xxiangel 2 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
It's both. The word "vegetable" doesn't have a scientific or botanical definition, it's just an arbitrary word to describe some of the plants that people eat. The word "fruit" DOES have a botanical definition - it's the ripened ovary of a flowering plant. Since people call tomatoes vegetables, they're vegetables, and since a tomato is the ripened ovary of a flowering plant, it's a fruit. Since "vegetable" doesn't have a specific definition, there's no reason that a plant can't be both.
2006-07-02 16:18:33 · answer #1 · answered by zmm 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Tomato is among the fruits categorised as vegetables.
Mango, Orange, Grapes, Bananas, Berries, Tomatoes, Capsicums, Chillies, Gourds, Pumkins etc etc are all scientifically fruits
According to ur question
In the above examples we categorized them in different groups - Fruits and Vegetables (what u mean by the question) and the Tomato belongs to the group Vegetable.
A fruit could be a vegetable, but a vegetable could not be a fruit.
2006-07-04 21:41:02 · answer #2 · answered by Bishwaj 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fruit
2006-07-02 16:00:15 · answer #3 · answered by elizabeth_bjn 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Botanically a fruit, agriculturally a vegetable.
Scientifically, a tomato is the fruit of the plant. However, for trading and regulation purposes, the goverment has classified the tomato in the vegetable category, as opposed to fruit.
2006-07-02 16:20:01 · answer #4 · answered by crazy_sherm 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Tomato by scientific definition is a fruit
2006-07-02 16:00:48 · answer #5 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
tomato is not a fruit, its a vegetable. that's why you can put it on a salad can you do that with banana, peach etc... no. Why? because they are fruit so tomato is a vegetable not fruit, remember that.
2006-07-02 16:03:50 · answer #6 · answered by babygurl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Check out the web sight (http://www.sciencebob.com/lab/q-tomato.html) and get the real answers! By the way, it is considered to be a fruit! But I can`t say that that is because it has seeds. All plants produce seeds of some sort, vegetable and fruit.
2006-07-02 16:12:26 · answer #7 · answered by jerseyshorechef1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A tomato is a vegetable
2006-07-02 16:04:50 · answer #8 · answered by antionette s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad.
2006-07-02 16:04:52 · answer #9 · answered by monkeylord_16 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The tomato (Solanum lycopersicum, formerly Lycopersicon lycopersicum) is a plant in the Solanaceae or nightshade family, native to Central, South, and southern North 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.
2006-07-02 16:02:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋