is a tomato a fruit? how do you know?

Answer 1

A tomato is a fruit because it is the ovary of the plant and holds the developing seeds.

Answer 2

Seed-producing vascular plants (meaning, they have a xylem and phloem to carry food and water throughout their "bodies") are split into two groups, gymnosperms and angiosperms. Gymnosperms produce seeds that aren't covered by fruit, like pine trees. Angiosperms produce seeds covered by fruit. Biologically, any fruit that covers a seed is a fruit, even if we might call it a vegetable. So, technically, cucmbers are fruits, tomatoes are fruits, and so forth. Carrots, however, are not fruits, for they don't cover seeds. The part of the carrot that you eat is the root.

The tomato has been under debate for a long time. Is it a fruit or a vegetable? As a matter of fact, in 1893, the US Supreme Court declared it was a vegetable. But due to its scientific definition, today we say it's a fruit.

So, the answer, put short and simple, is that a tomato is a fruit.

Answer 3

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.

NOW YOU KNOW!

Answer 4

In 1893, the United States Supreme Court officially labeled them a vegetable. This is goes against the Webster's Dictionary, Worcester's Dictionary and the Imperial Dictionaries (and what I think is common sense), definitions of "fruit" and "vegetable." Each dictionary defined "fruit" as the seed of plants, or that part of plants which contains the seed, and especially the juicy, pulpy products of certain plants, covering and containing the seed, clearly defining tomatoes as fruit.

The reason? Money, what else. Under the Schedule G.-Provisions of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, there were tariffs placed on tomatoes imported from the West Indies because they were considered a vegetable, and imported vegetables were subject to tariffs. So the US gets it's Money and legally Tomatoes are vegetables.

Answer 5

Yes it is because of the seeds, and it's high acidity? Vegetables don't have seeds or stones in them. That's how you know!
Yes tomatos taste more like a vegetable than a fruit but they are fruit.. same goes for pumpkin! Cucumbers, Avocados sorta break
the rule but are really herbs neither fruit nor vegetables but some do classify them as fruit
which is sorta correct!

Answer 6

A fruit is a plant's ripened ovary and contains seeds. Tomatoes are actually fruits, as are cucumbers, avacados, peppers, and many other "vegetables".

Answer 7

tomatoes are fruits
how do i know? My mother told me
nicholas

Answer 8

tomato is a fruit i have this lesson in my book it is all about seed's and dispersal seed's

Answer 9

Fruits have seeds.

Answer 10

Yes, it is a fruit! I was taught that in school years ago.