Is an olive a veggie or fruit? and are tomatoes vegies or fruits?

Answer 1

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To really figure out if it 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 2

Fruit or Vegetable?
An interesting aspect of tomato history is the classic debate: Is the Tomato a Fruit or Vegetable? I guess that depends on whom you are asking. By definition, a fruit is the edible plant structure of a mature ovary of a flowering plant, usually eaten raw; some are sweet like apples, but the ones that are not sweet such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, etc. are commonly called vegetables. Botanists claim that a fruit is any fleshy material that covers a seed or seeds where as a horticulturists point of view would pose that the tomato is a vegetable plant. Until the late 1800's the tomato was classified as a fruit to avoid taxation, but this was changed after a Supreme Court ruling that the tomato is a vegetable and should be taxed accordingly





Definitions of what an olive is:

1)A Mediterranean evergreen tree (Olea europaea) having fragrant white flowers, usually lance-shaped leathery leaves, and edible drupes.
2) The small ovoid fruit of this tree, an important food and source of oil.
3) A yellow green of low to medium lightness and low to moderate saturation.

The fruit is a small drupe 1-2.5 cm long, thinner-fleshed and smaller in wild plants than in orchard cultivars.

Answer 3

Olive and tomatoes are considered fruit, tomatos are a member of the nightshade family like eggplant. As the olive is the fruit of the olive tree, anything with a pit is a fruit, seed to pumpkins and squash are on the borderline.

Answer 4

I think that the olive is a fruit
and I know that a tomato is a fruit

Answer 5

If it has a seed, it is a fruit. If not it is a veggie. So, tomatoes are fruits. I'm not sure if olives have seeds or not, but you could check and have your answer. I hope you found this helpful!

Answer 6

Fruit have seeds in them: Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers. An olive has a pit, and so do cherries, that being said an olive is a fruit, and so are tomatoes.

Answer 7

Botanically they are indeed both fruits. However, in agreement with MommyBlue78, there was actually a Supreme Court ruling back in the late 1800s that declared the tomato a vegetable in terms of cooking and eating.

Answer 8

The olive is a fruit and the tomato is a berry.

Answer 9

An olive is a drupaceous fruit
A tomatoe is the fruit of a vine native to South America.

Answer 10

an olive is considered a fruit.. why, not sure, something to do with the seed in the core..tomatoes are a fruit since they have seeds and juice..i dont consider tomatoes a fruit..