is a tomato a fruit or vegetable?

Answer 1

To really figure out if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable, you need to know what makes a fruit a fruit, and a vegetable a vegetable. The big question to ask is, DOES IT HAVE SEEDS?

If the answer is yes, then technically, you have a FRUIT. This, of course, makes your tomato a fruit. It also makes cucumbers, squash, green beans and walnuts all fruits as well. VEGETABLES such as, radishes, celery, carrots, and lettuce do NOT have seeds (that are part of what we eat) and so they are grouped as vegetables.

Now don't go looking for tomatoes next to the oranges in your grocery stores. Certain fruits like tomatoes and green beans will probably always be mostly referred to as "vegetables" in today's society. Goodluck ^_^

Answer 2

Fruit

Answer 3

The best answer is both. Yes, it is a fruit but so is a pepper, an eggplant, a cucumber, a squash or an okra pod. People used to say it was not a vegetable because it came from the fruit of a plant. But they never remarked the same way about the other veggies listed above for some reason. To me, a vegetable is any large plant part used primarily for savory rather than dessert purposes. I am not sure what category this puts rhuibarb in, since it is a stalk used for desserts.

Answer 4

Fruit

Answer 5

Tomato is a fruit. All fruits have seeds and vegetables don't.

Answer 6

Fruit.

Answer 7

Botanically it is a fruit (as most of the other answerers state). Socially, it is
probably thought of and eaten as/like a vegetable more often. From this, legally, in the United States, a (to my mind crazy) US Supreme Court decision from, as I recall, about 90 years ago, decided that tomatoes are vegetables
for legal definition purposes. I do not know if they are similarly defined in any other country.

Answer 8

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 weak, 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 9

some people say vegetable because theres a certain vitamin in it that only vegetables have, but some people say fruit because it has seeds and grows from a plant. Me, i say FRUIT.

Answer 10

Well let's see here...fruits have seeds, a tomato has seeds, so a tomato is a fruit.