is a pumpkin a fruit or vegtable?

Answer 1

Hi,
This question always causes a stir and I find it amusing to read the answers. After reading all of the answers you still won't know for sure what it really is.

Have a read of some of the other answers on this site below

http://www.stupidquestionsanswered.com/answered/pumpkin.htm

Answer 2

good on you Giddaymate!! Actually the site you link does give the answer: "a pumpkin is a fruit, just as are tomatoes, cucumbers, squashes, avocado, green, yellow, and red peppers and pea pods"

Anything with seeds inside it is a fruit. But note that there are fruits that do not have seeds inside them either because they are triploid [3sets of chromosomes instead of 2 -- banana]; or self incompatible clones [pineapple -- but this is a multiple fruit, made up on a number of fruits in a single unit] or are false fruits [strawberry -- the "seeds" on the *outside* are the real fruits, carried on a tasty receptacle]

Answer 3

A fruit. Determined by the seed producing mechanism in the ovary of the plant.

Answer 4

A veggie is a plant or part of a flower used as food

Answer 5

Both are good for you, each fruit/vegetable has different vitamins. Thus as more variety, as better. Vegetables have generally less sugar than fruits.

Answer 6

i guess technically its a fruit because it has seeds- which makes it a fruit. other people have said its a squash- im not sure about that.
other fruits often mistaken for vegetables include
tomatoes
cucumber

cya

Answer 7

A pumpkin is a vegetable; it's actually a gourd, and related to squash.

Answer 8

neither it is defined as an eclesiaginoton "a seeded plant which grows by stem from the ground, and is orange"

Answer 9

i knew a girl name pumpkin once. she was kinda fruity

Answer 10

so what is a squash classified as? which food group does it belong to?