is a tomato is fruit or a vegetable?

Answer 1

Fruit.
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.
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 2

Fruit

Answer 3

Fruit

Answer 4

Tomatoes are now eaten freely throughout the world, although their seeds cannot be digested and pass straight through the human intestines. Today, their consumption is believed to benefit the heart. Lycopene, one of nature's most powerful antioxidants, is present in tomatoes and has been found to be beneficial in preventing prostate cancer, among other things.

Botanically a fruit, the tomato is nutritionally categorized as a vegetable. (See below.) Since "vegetable" is not a botanical term, there is no contradiction in a plant part being a fruit botanically while still being considered a vegetable.

Answer 5

Fruit

Answer 6

A tomato is a fruit that is used like a vegetable.

Answer 7

Not that you really need another person answering this, but yes, officially I have heard and read that it is a fruit. But because I have never tasted tomato pie, or had tomatoes and ice-cream, or tomato smoothies..... (nor would I ever want to taste these things) it is and always will be part of the vegetable family to me! As others have said, it is used like a vegetable which is best in savory dishes.

Answer 8

In 1893 United States Supreme Court ruled that a tomato is a vegetable. So legally, it seems, the tomato is not a fruit.

Answer 9

A tomato is a fruit by definition. If you are going to categorize it, it is a vegetable. You know what I mean and I am not going to say anymore.Good day.

Answer 10

i see that a lot of ppl here skiped their biology class but that's ok because tomato is vegetable. Apple is a fruit but tomato is a vegetable, and to ppl that say everything with seeds is fruit well that's just plain bs

Answer 11

Fruit.