is a tomato a vegetable?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

no it is considered a fruit this question has been asked alot on here on yahoo answers
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purplekitten
3 weeks ago

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The tomato is technically a berry, they are fruits because they contain seeds.

Here is what Wikipedia has to say about the fruit/vegetable issue on the tomato:

Botanically speaking, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant, i.e. a fruit. However, from a culinary perspective the tomato is typically served as a meal, or part of a main course of a meal, meaning that it would be considered a vegetable (a culinary term which has no botanical meaning).

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Norm
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The confusion about 'fruit' and 'vegetable' arises because of the differences in usage between scientists and cooks. Scientifically speaking, a tomato is definitely a fruit. True fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant (though cultivated forms may be seedless). Blueberries, raspberries, and oranges are true fruits, and so are many kinds of nut. 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 is an example. As far as cooking is concerned, 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, and a bean pod is also technically a fruit. The term 'vegetable' is more generally used of other edible parts of plants, such as cabbage leaves, celery stalks, and potato tubers, which are not strictly the fruit of the plant from which they come. Occasionally the term 'fruit' may be used to refer to a part of a plant which is not a fruit, but which is used in sweet cooking: rhubarb, for example. So a tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but can be used as a vegetable in cooking.

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Answer 3

No, tomatoes are actually fruits. Tomatoes are still widely considered to be a vegetable because back in the days when you bartered for food from vendors and markets and other things, vegetables were cheaper than fruits so people tried to convince the vendors that they WERE in fact vegetables, instead of fruits. And the vendors bought it.

Answer 4

According to Wikipedia, many of the foods we call vegetables are actually fruits. This is what it says:
"In botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant. In many species, the fruit incorporates the ripened ovary and surrounding tissues. Fruits are the means by which flowering plants disseminate seeds. Evolution has led plants to adopt certain basic mechanisms, seemingly without close regard to the tissues involved. No one terminology really fits the enormous variety that is found among plant fruits. Botanical terminology for fruits is inexact and will remain so. In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to just those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy, examples of which include plum, apple and orange. However, a great many common vegetables, as well as nuts and grains, are the fruit of the plant species they come from."

I always thought a fruit was defined as having the seeds on the inside, but apparently its more complicated than that. Confusing isn't it?

Answer 5

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.

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.

The word tomato derives from a word in the Nahuatl language, tomatl (IPA /tɔ.matɬ/).

Answer 6

Fruit

Answer 7

Technically a Fruit as the seeds are on the inside, but it is often labelled as a vegetable

Answer 8

Depends on the definition of vegetable you accept.

Personally who cares?!
Nothing better than a fresh home grown tomato. Wish I had some right now.

Answer 9

some people say its a fruit cause it has seeds and others say thats its a vegetable the world may never know LOL its a fruit

Answer 10

Fruit.

Answer 11

no the tomato is a fruit