what is the tomato, a fruit or a 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.

Answer 2

Fruit

Answer 3

Fruit

Answer 4

Botanically speaking, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant, i.e. a fruit or, more precisely, a berry. 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 (and is) considered a vegetable.

The USDA also considers the tomato a vegetable.

Answer 5

A Tomato is a fruit.

Answer 6

The tomato is a confused little fruit.

Answer 7

Fruit.

look at the flesh and pips. What vegetable do you know that looks like that? On the other hand, what fruits can you name that look like that?

See? Its a fruit. Thats how you tell the difference.

Incidentely, Cucumber is 90% water, and semi-fruit like, like a long melon, but is a vegetable.

Answer 8

A tomato is a fruit its got seeds in it

Answer 9

Tomato is a fruit because it contains seeds.

Answer 10

Yes, It is right that tomato is fruit and in past many years back people think that it is a poison no one eat it.

But today we use it.

Tomato is fruit