What makes a veggie a veggie and a fruit a fruit?

Question

I just want to know what is the true definition of a fruit and a veggie? Why are they what they are? Tomato a veggie? Why? TELL ME WHY?

Answer 1

Fruits have seeds, and yes a tomato is a fruit.

Answer 2

A fruit is the matured ovary of a flower, containing the seed. After fertilization takes place and the embryo (plantlet) has begun to develop, the surrounding ovule becomes the fruit. I won't go on about the four types of fruit--simple, aggregate, multiple and accessory--which explain things like berries and pineapples.

A vegetable is considered to be edible roots, tubers, stems, leaves, fruits, seeds, flower clusters, and other softer plant parts. In common usage, however, there is no exact distinction between a vegetable and a fruit. The usual example is the tomato, which is a fruit, but is eaten as a vegetable, as are cucumbers, peppers, melons, and squashes. The classification of plants as vegetables is largely determined by custom, culture, and usage.

Answer 3

A fruit scientifically speaking is a fertilised plant ovary, the fruit contains cotyledons/seed leaves which the seedling will grow from, and usually endosperm, which is the food reserve for the seedling. A vegetable is everthing on the plant except the fruit, stem, leaf, flower, root.

Answer 4

Fruits have seeds directly on or inside of them. Some vegetables eventually get seeds but the seeds are seperate from the actual vegetable. Example: carrots get seeds the second year but they get a flower/seed in the upper leaves and not on the actual carrot root itself. The rest of the vegetables like corn is actually the seed itself.

Answer 5

The fruits contain seeds and veggies don't.

Answer 6

A fruit is a mature fertilised flower.

The little gren star shaped thing you pull of the top of a tomato is a calyx. This was originally underneath the flower.

Answer 7

vegetables must be root, stem, or leaf - fruit must be a fleshy covering of seeds.