Is a pumpkin a fruit or vegetable?

Question

just wondering. I know a tomato is a fruit so a pumpkin is a what?

Answer 1

Pumpkins are fruit. See URL below for lots of neat facts about pumpkins.

Answer 2

Cucumbers are actually in the melon family so I would consider them a fruit (though I am not for sure on this). They may not be sweet but neither are Tomatoes and they are a fruit (it's true, look it up in a dictionary). Pumpkins are a type of squash so it is probably a vegetable, which is odd since it is usually eaten sweet. Go figure.

Answer 3

Fruit.

Answer 4

fruit used as a fruit or vegetable.
see pumpkin empanadas and pumpkin pie and
pumpkin soup and pumpkin tempura

all yummy, i'd say!

and full of vitamin a(skin and hair and eyes ) and fiber and more..
i'm hungry for pumpkin !

Answer 5

Both. It is the portion of the plant containing seeds, hence a fruit.

All fruits are vegetables being food derived from plants.

Answer 6

pumpkins are vegetables. and you rigth about the tomato is a fruit.

Answer 7

pump‧kin  [puhmp-kin or, commonly, puhng-kin] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun
1.a large, edible, orange-yellow fruit borne by a coarse, decumbent vine, Cucurbita pepo, of the gourd family.
2.the similar fruit of any of several related species, as C. maxima or C. moschata.
3.a plant bearing such fruit.

Answer 8

Its the only fruit in the world that people actually cook soup with it as a vegetable.

Answer 9

a fruit. technically a fruit has seeds and pumpkins have seeds.

Answer 10

Its a gourd and neither a fruit or vegetable