Is a tomato a fruit or vegitable?????/?

Question

And I expect answers. Also, what about a watermelon??

My standerds:
If it is bright, it's a fruit. If is is dull, it's a vegi.

Egplant is a vegi cause it has it's own strip poll and the pissomine is a vile fruit

Answer 1

It is a fruit.

Whoever says vegetable is a complete idiot.

Answer 2

It's a fruit, and here's why:

Botanically speaking, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant, that is a fruit or, more precisely, a berry. However, from a culinary perspective, the tomato is not as sweet as those foodstuffs usually called fruits and it is typically served as part of a main course of a meal, as are other vegetables, rather than at dessert. As noted above, the term "vegetable" has no botanical meaning and is purely a culinary term.

This argument has led to actual legal implications in the United States, Australia and China. In 1887, U.S. tariff laws that imposed a duty on vegetables but not on fruits caused the tomato's status to become a matter of legal importance. The U.S. Supreme Court settled this controversy in 1893, declaring that the tomato is a vegetable, using the popular definition which classifies vegetable by use, that they are generally served with dinner and not dessert. The case is known as Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304). Strictly speaking, the holding of the case applies only to the interpretation of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, and not much else. The court does not purport to reclassify tomato for botanical or for any other purpose other than paying a tax under a tariff act. However, the USDA also considers the tomato a vegetable.

The tomato has been designated the state vegetable of New Jersey. Arkansas takes both sides by declaring the "South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato" to be both the state fruit and the state vegetable in the same law, citing both its botanical and culinary classifications. In 2006, the Ohio House of Representatives passed a law that would have declared the tomato to be the official state fruit, but the bill died when the Ohio Senate failed to act on it.

But due to the scientific definition of a fruit and a vegetable, the tomato still remains a fruit when not dealing with tariffs. Nor is it the only culinary vegetable that is a botanical fruit: eggplants, cucumbers, and squashes of all kinds (including zucchini and pumpkins) share the same ambiguity.

Answer 3

They claim a tomato is a fruit, I say it's a veg. It's only one of the main ingredients in V8 juice along with celery, carrots, beets, lettuce, spinach and parsley. There isn't any fruit in that! Maybe they company who makes this stuff should look at that more carefully and say that a tomato is in fact a vegetable. A watermelon I believe is a fruit. :)
Have a great day.

Answer 4

a tomato is a fruit because it has seeds. Definition of a fruit: the part of the plant that contains the seed. a watermelon is a fruit too.

Answer 5

By scientific definition it is in fact a fruit. But I always think of it as a veggie. Watermelon is a fruit.

Answer 6

Tomatoes is a vegetable, and Watermelon is a Fruit...

Answer 7

technically a tomato is a fruit
a watermelon is a fruit

Answer 8

A tomato is a fruit and a watermelon is a vegetable.

Answer 9

It has seeds - so it technically is a fruit. So is a watermelon for the same reason.

Answer 10

Well, tomato to me is a vegetable but technically it's a fruit.

Watermelon is a fruit.

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Answer 11

Both are fruits Friend