tomato is a kind of fruit or vegetable?

Answer 1

The tomato is the end product of a fertilised flower so it is a fruit. Vegetables are either leaves eg. lettuce, roots or tubers eg carrots and potatoes or stems think celery. As stated by other respondents the fruit of a plant contains the seeds.

Answer 2

Fruit

Answer 3

tomatoes are fruits biologically

anything can be a vegetable because it is just a culinary term

so tomatoes are BOTH fruits and vegetables

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable Vegetable is a culinary term. Its definition has no scientific value and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. All parts of herbaceous plants eaten as food by humans, whole or in part, are generally considered vegetables. Mushrooms, though belonging to the biological kingdom fungi, are also commonly considered vegetables. Though the exceptions are many, in general, vegetables are thought of as being savory, and not sweet. Culinary fruits, nuts, grains, herbs, and spices are all arguably the exceptions.

Since “vegetable” is not a botanical term, there is no contradiction in referring to a plant part as a fruit while also being considered a vegetable

Answer 4

Tomato is a fruit

Answer 5

tomato is a fruit and some people don't no this because there are disagreements about it but the answer is yes cos it has seeds fruit has seeds vegetables don't.

Answer 6

Tomatoes are fruit.

I've heard something about seeds before, but it doesn't make sense in the other answers, or cucumbers, peppers, squash, corn, peas, beans, etc would all be "fruit", too, by their definition.

Answer 7

fruit

Answer 8

i always thought it was a vegetable but i heard that it was a fruit because it has seeds. =]

Answer 9

It is a fruit b/c it has seeds!

Answer 10

tomato is a veg its from the same family as the potatoe, that is the nightshade family of plants