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2006-07-07 10:50:09 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
It's a fruit because it's classified as a berry. A tomato is the entire ovary of it's plant and it's entire ovary wall ripens into an edible pericarp. These are distinct characteristics of berries. However, it is also considered as a vegetable because of it's culinary usage, in which, mostly it is served as a meal (usually part of a main course) rather than as a dessert.
The ff URL will explain why a tomato was considered a fruit and a vegetable as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato#Fruit_or_vegetable.3F
2006-07-07 12:24:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Fruit
2006-07-07 11:25:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tomato is a Fruit.
2006-07-07 11:11:16 · answer #3 · answered by fatsausage 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A fruit
2006-07-08 14:02:53 · answer #4 · answered by Ema 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is a fruit. A vegetable doesn't have and fruits do. Thus, classifying a tomato as a fruit.
2006-07-07 10:57:33 · answer #5 · answered by Sarah B 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
But veggies have seeds inside, too !!
And at my house, a tomato is a veggie, because I sure wouldn't want to throw an orange or a peach into a beef soup !
2006-07-07 10:55:41 · answer #6 · answered by madamspinner2 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A tomatoe is a fruit, because it has a seed!!
2006-07-07 10:53:11 · answer #7 · answered by lainey101 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
a tomato is a fruit
2006-07-07 14:03:15 · answer #8 · answered by jacicat 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The scientific definition of a fruit is that it should be or have a ripened ovary. Tomato is a ripened ovary and hence a fruit.
2006-07-07 16:05:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
anything with seeds is a fruit, tomato is a fruit.
2006-07-07 11:50:07 · answer #10 · answered by blah 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋