Is a pumpkin a fruit or a vegetable?

Answer 1

fruit it has seeds

Answer 2

Just like a tomato, it's both. Botanically, a fruit is the seed-bearing ripened ovary of a flowering plant, which a pumpkin is. The word "vegetable" doesn't have a botanical or scientific definition, it's just an arbitrary word that people use to describe some of the plants that we eat. Since people call pumpkins vegetables, they're vegetables. Since "vegetable" doesn't have a specific definition, there's no reason that a plant can't be a fruit and a vegetable simultaneously.

Answer 3

Surprise!¡¡¡¡ A pumpkin is actually a fruit, a member of the Cucurbitaceae family of plants with trailing vines
Pumpkins are believed to have been first cultivated in Central America. Spanish and Portuguese explorers carried pumpkin seeds back to Europe in the 14th century. In North America, Native Americans grew pumpkins for food long before the first Europeans arrived on the continent in the 1600s.

Answer 4

The people who said it is a vegetable are wrong. It is commonly thought to be that, but, in fact, it is an overgrown berry, therefore a fruit, because it has seeds inside. Vegetables don't. They develop seeds on their plants apart from the fruit, or they develop rhizomes such as potatoes or peanuts. Rhizomes are growths on the root system that are the regenerative part of the plant and will cause new plants to grow from them, as plants grow from seeds.

Answer: A pumpkin and all squashes, along with cucumbers, are berries, ergo, fruits.

Answer 5

Fruit

Answer 6

A fruit has seeds in its edible flesh. More accurately, the usually edible reproductive body of a seed plant. A vegetable is a herbaceous plant grown for an edible part that is usually eaten as part of a meal. Pumpkins, cucumbers, eggplants, squashes, etc. are all fruit.

Answer 7

Technically- since it has seeds inside and develops from a flower, it would be a fruit. More specifically, a Squash Fruit.
but it's not what most people consider a fruit, and from a culinary view it's considered a vegetable.

Answer 8

A pumpkin is a fruit to a biologist, because it has seeds. From a culinary point of view, we treat it as a vegetable, because it is not sweet.

Answer 9

vegetable---they have seeds too. Are flowers fruits? because they also have seeds you know. (to the person who answered first)
I have a pumpkin growing in my yard right now. It is larger than a basketball, and it seems to be doing well. I did not plant it, it just started growing one day. Pretty cool huh?

Answer 10

The pumpkin is a squash fruit.
Go figure. My mom always told me to "eat your vegetables" and there'd be squash on the plate. So... she was WRONG! Ha! She should have said, "eat your squash fruit"....

that just sounds wrong ....

Answer 11

Pumpkins are in the squash family. They are a veggie.