Are tomatoes a fruit or vegetables?

Answer 1

Its afruit if there are seeds in it it is a fruit

Answer 2

It's both. Botanically, a fruit is the ripened, seed-bearing ovary of a flowering plant, which a tomato is. The word "vegetable" doesn't have a botanical or scientific definition, it's just a word that is arbitrarily applied to some of the plants that people eat. Since people apply this word to tomatoes, tomatoes are vegetables. Since "vegetable" doesn't have a specific definition, there's no reason that something can't be both a fruit and a vegetable at the same time.

Answer 3

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 4

In biology there is not really a category for "vegetable"

Fruit is basically something that helps the plant reproduce, it has seeds IN it or ON it.

Fruits: Strawberries & Pinnaples, Green Peppers and Cantelope, Tomatoes and Passion Fruit, Avacado and Apricot.

Some of the confusion with vegtables come in with "other" plant matter that we eat as part of our diet.

Non Fruit:
Carrots & Turnips, Garlic and Onion, Potatoes and Yams, Lettuce and Cabbage

They are not part of the main reproductive structures of the plant. Although with "tubers" such as potatoes the "eyes" are capable of propagating "clones" of the individual.

The above "non fruits" are either the leaves or the roots of the plant. Not the part that happens after the flowering.

The main purpose of the "fruit" is either to provide nutrition to the seeds as they grow into future plants, OR to dupe an animal into eating the fruit and spreading the seeds further from the parent in the waste.

So in conclusion tomatoes are technically a fruit.

Answer 5

tomatoes comes under fruit category.

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.

Answer 6

Fruit.

Answer 7

tomatoes are actually fruits. thats becuz they have seeds and all vegetables dont. most people think that tomatoes are vegetables but they're wrong!!

Answer 8

Tomatoes are actually fruits.

Answer 9

Anything with seeds inside is a fruit. So, it's a fruit.

Answer 10

It's a fruit cause friend is a produce guy and he says so...

Answer 11

its a fruit because of the seeds.