is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

Answer 1

Botanically speaking, the tomato is a fruit and is classified as a berry. It is a fruit because it is a ripened mature ovary containing seed.
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Hey since Pluto is not a planet anymore, maybe they will change a tomato to a vegetable...lol Makes more sense.

Answer 2

Fruit

Answer 3

A fruit that is used like a vegetable

Answer 4

A tomato is Fruit

Answer 5

Fruit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato

Answer 6

Fruit.

Answer 7

Fruit.

Answer 8

"The United States Congress passed the Tariff Act of 1883, a rather innocuous piece of legislation requiring a 10% tax on imported vegetables, in response to growing international trade. Just a few short years later, a tomato importer evaluated the law closely, and decided to challenge it on the botanical grounds that a tomato was in fact technically a fruit, not a vegetable, and should therefore be exempt from said tax. John Nix's case posed merit enough to land the case before the Supreme Court in 1893. In Nix vs Hedden, 149 U.S. 304 (1893), Justice Gray wrote, "Botanically speaking, tomatoes are fruits of a vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans, and peas. But in the common language of the people...all these are vegetables, which are grown in kitchen gardens, and which, whether eaten cooked or raw, are, like potatoes, carrots, parsnips, turnips, beets, cauliflower, cabbage, celery and lettuce, usually served at dinner in, with or after the soup, fish or meats which constitute the principal part of the repast, and not, like fruits generally, as dessert [1]." The court rejected the botanical truth that the tomato is in fact a monstrously sized berry, and deferred to the culinary vernacular of vegetable to describe it. Thus is tax yet paid on imported tomatoes." (Source: http://lamar.colostate.edu/~samcox/Tomato.html )

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Answer 9

A Fruit.

Answer 10

Usually considered a vegetable by most, but classified as a fruit.