are tomatoes fruits or vegetables?

Question

are there any tomatoholics out there who know?

Answer 1

I'm a tomatoholic and it's a fruit

Answer 2

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 3

Fruits

Answer 4

Fruit

Answer 5

Fruit

Answer 6

Fruit

Answer 7

Fruit.

Answer 8

apparently fruit, but I think of it as a vegetable. I would eat an apple or strawberries before bed but not a tomato. the seed rule has an exception with the cucumber though.

Answer 9

Tomatoes are a fruit, but we tend to use them in cooking as a vegetable!

Answer 10

Hello. -

Fruit is defined as the ripened ovary or ovaries (blossom) of a seed-bearing plant, together with accessory parts, containing the seeds. A vegetable is defined as a plant cultivated for an edible part, such as the root of the beet, the leaf of spinach, or the flower buds of broccoli or cauliflower.

According to these definitions, tomatoes are fruit.

Have a nice day. :)