is a potato a vegetable? Please give reasons for your answers, there is a lot of money riding on this!?

Answer 1

yes because you're eating the tuber or root part of the potato

Answer 2

Potato varieties bear flowers containing asexual parts. Flowers are mostly cross-pollinated by other potato plants, including by insects, but a substantial amount of self-fertilizing occurs. Any potato variety can also be propagated vegetatively by planting pieces of existing tubers, cut to include at least one or two eyes. Some commercial varieties of potatoes do not produce seeds at all (they bear imperfect, single-sex flowers) and are propagated only from tuber pieces. Confusingly, these pieces can bear the name "seed potatoes". After potato plants flower, some varieties will produce small green fruit that look similar to green cherry-tomatoes. These produce seeds like other fruits. Each of the fruits can contain up to 300 true seeds. One can separate seeds from the fruits by putting them in a blender on a slow speed with some water, then leaving them in water for a day so that the seeds will sink and the rest of the fruit will float. However, some horticulturists sell chimeras made by grafting a tomato plant onto a potato plant, which can produce both edible tomatoes and potatoes.
I have to say no the potato IS NOT A VEGATABLE it is a tuburous fruit.....

Answer 3

A fruit (fruiting body) is generated by sexual reproduction (pollination) except in rare cases where plants are infertile and yet still produce from fruiting structures (banana) or when they reproduce asexually (mushrooms). Potato plants have flowers and can be pollinated to produce seeds. That isn't the part we eat, so what we eat can't be considered a fruit. A fruit has seeds. Or spores. Rarely infertile (banana). Any other part of a plant, even part of a root that you can grow another plant from, is part of the vegetation or a vegetable. Don't confuse me with legumes because peanuts are really bizarre.

Answer 4

If there's money riding on your answer I wouldn't be asking it here. It's a tuber, but I would suggest a little research on the subject. Good luck with that.

Answer 5

By most definitions, yes, it is. It certainly isn't a fruit.

I can't think of any edible root (tuber) that would be considered
a fruit. They're all veggies, at least by the American
Dietetic counsil, etc (the people who define food groups
and create multi-colored pyramids).

Answer 6

Botanically potato is defined as a swollen stem. So it is not a true vegetable or a tuber.

Answer 7

It's not a vegetable. It's a tuber; a root.