is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

Answer 1

a fruit because it has seeds. anything with seeds is a fruit

Answer 2

Botanically speaking, the tomato you eat is a fruit. So is a watermelon, green pepper, eggplant, cucumber, and squash. A "fruit" is any fleshy material covering a seed or seeds.

Horticulturally speaking, the tomato is a vegetable plant. The plant is an annual and nonwoody. Most fruits, from a horticulture perspective, are grown on a woody plant (apples, cherries, raspberries, oranges) with the exception of strawberries.

In 1893, the United States Supreme Court ruled the tomato was a "vegetable" and therefore subject to import taxes. The suit was brought by a consortium of growers who wanted it declared a vegetable to protect U.S. crop development and prices. Fruits, at that time, were not subjected to import taxes and foreign countries could flood the market with lower priced produce. (A hundred years really hasn't changed anything.)

Answer 3

Fruit.

Answer 4

It's a fruit
One of the best things I've heard is:
The definition of intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. The definition of wisdom is knowing not to put tomatoes in a fruit salad.
Classic

Answer 5

Fruit.

Anything with seeds is a fruit, such as apples, pears, bananas, tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers...

Stuff like seedless grapes have been bred and changed to get rid of the seeds, in a similar way that dogs are bred for a certain trait!

Answer 6

According to the Collins Pocket Dictionary it's a fruit.

Answer 7

A fruit, but all fruits are vegetables.

Answer 8

A fruit definitely!

Answer 9

READ THIS:

http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutother/tomato

Answer 10

It's classed as a fruit because it has seeds; which makes a cucumber a fruit too!

Answer 11

Fruit. Just like you?