fruit or veggie?

Question

if tomatoes are technically fruit because they grow on a vine, wouldn't that make snow peas a fruit too?

Answer 1

You're confusing botany with culinary nomenclature. This is always the basis for confusion.

All ripened ovaries are botanical fruits. This includes, but is not limited to, tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplant, peppers, pea pods, bean pods etc.

Botanically, there is no such thing as a vegetable. This is a culinary term. This is not a botanical term. This is like comparing Greek to Latin. You can't compare and contrast.

You can call a tomato a vegetable if you like. You can call a potato a vegetable but I call it a STEM (tuber). I call spinach a bunch of leaves and stems, not a vegetable. See my point? We are both correct because we're speaking two different languages here.

The tomato is a culinary exception (being called by its correct botanical term as a fruit unlike cucumbers etc) because of legal taxation issues back in the early 20th century. Therefore, the tomato is both a culinary fruit and a botanical fruit. The cucumber is a botanical fruit but not always a culinary fruit. Culinary definitions depend on the person and are therefore, not scientific.

Just to make it more interesting for you,

Watermelons are botanical berries. Strawberries, raspberries and blackberries are not.

Answer 2

A fruit is defined as the fruity covering around the seeds. It is the ovary of the plant. Fruitfruits.s must have seeds. Yes snow peas are

Answer 3

As usual, the problem is the underlying premise in the question.

You questions assumes that because something grows on a vine it is a fruit.

Answer 4

Peas are a seed. Peas grow in a pod. With the snow peas you eat the pod. Pod is not fruit.

A fruit is defined as having flesh with seeds within. Tomato, apple, watermelon, squash, pumpkin.

Veggie has no seeds. Lettuce, cabbage, broccoli, spinach.

Answer 5

Botanically speaking, a fruit is a fertilized ovary of a flower, containing seeds protected by a fleshy cover. So tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, okra, green beans, squashes, pumpkins, cucumbers and all types of melons are really fruits, although we may refer to them as vegetables.

Answer 6

nah snow peas are a vegetable!
beans grow on a vine 2 and thats a veggie

Answer 7

Something doesn't have grow on a vine to make it a fruit, its determined by whether it has seeds or not

Answer 8

yes tomatoes are fruits
anything that has seeds is a fruit
test it youll see

Answer 9

fruit did u know they use to be poisonous