why do some peope say tomato is A VEGETABLE?

Answer 1

it's not as sweet as other fruits.

Answer 2

Because they think it is. Tomatoes are usually served as a vegetable dish in the main meal. People think of fruit more as a dessert or snack. Does it really matter what a tomato's botanical label is? Enjoy a nice ripe one today. Or cooked up a sweet fried green tomato. Whatever you call the nice little red guys, they are tasty and are good for you!
By the way, cucumbers, which often are found cuddling tomatoes in a salad, are also fruits.

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. It is a short-lived perennial plant, grown as an annual plant, typically growing to 1-3 m in height, with a weak, woody stem that usually scrambles over other plants. The genus Solanum also contains the eggplant and the potato, as well as many poisonous species.

The leaves are 10-25 cm long, pinnate, with 5-9 leaflets, each leaflet up to 8 cm long, with a serrated margin; both the stem and leaves are densely glandular-hairy. The flowers are 1-2 cm across, yellow, with five pointed lobes on the corolla; they are borne in a cyme of 3-12 together. 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.

The word tomato derives from a word in the Nahuatl language, tomatl. The specific name, lycopersicum means "wolf-peach" (compare the related species, S. lycocarpum, whose scientific name means "wolf-fruit", common name "wolf-apple.")

Answer 3

Because it's only recently been called a fruit from news and media in the last several years, and it now just gives us something else to argue about,...
In the past it's always been known as a vegetable, and because used with vegetables most of the time, many people always just kept assuming it was. I still consider it a vegetable even though it may be a fruit, It just doesn't taste like a fruit to me, so I like to think it's a vegetable.

Answer 4

Tomato is a fruit of the tomato plant and is classified as a berry. Some people may confuse it as a vegetable because of how it is used, cooked and prepared in dishes.

Answer 5

Maybe because it doesn't taste as sweet as a fruit, we tend to treat it as a vegetable, we eat it in salad which is mainly vegetables. We don't store it with the other fruit in the fruit bowl, it's even stored with the veggies in the supermarket.

Answer 6

Because you eat it with salads, and sandwiches.

Fruits you eat by itself or mixed in with other fruits. Can you imagine a fruit salad with tomatoes?

To me, although it has citric acid (which is why it's technically considered a fruit), it is treated more like a vegetable.

Answer 7

Probably because it is shown with veggies in books and flyer while a child... don't find out it is a fruit until later years...

Also, it is grown in a garden so some that do not know, just assume it is.

Answer 8

It is a veggie, but also considered a fruit because it has seeds



most fruits grow over the ground.... (trees, vines)
and veggies grow from the underground

Answer 9

Tis a fruit

Answer 10

because tomato is like all other vegetables it has vitamins and all other things like vegetables

Answer 11

i say it's a fruit. i think people consider it a vegetable because it goes in salads, burgers, and isn't really sweet. then again, there are salads with oranges in them, burgers with pineapple in them, and there are fruits (e.g. grapefruit) that aren't sweet.