Why are cucumbers vegetables and not fruits?

Question

I have been wondering why cucumbers have been listed as a vegetable. The tomatos are a fruit, so why not cucumbers?

Answer 1

The cucumber (Cucumis sativus) is a widely cultivated plant in the gourd family Cucurbitaceae, which includes squash, and in the same genus as the muskmelon.

Having an enclosed seed and developing from a flower, cucumbers are scientifically classified as a fruit. Much like tomatoes and squash, despite the scientific classification their sour-bitter flavor contributes to cucumbers being percieved, prepared and eaten as vegetables

Answer 2

Is A Cucumber A Fruit

Answer 3

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Why are cucumbers vegetables and not fruits?
I have been wondering why cucumbers have been listed as a vegetable. The tomatos are a fruit, so why not cucumbers?

Answer 4

A fruit is actually the sweet, ripened ovary or ovaries of a seed-bearing plant. A vegetable, in contrast, is an herbaceous plant cultivated for an edible part (seeds, roots, stems, leaves, bulbs, tubers, or nonsweet fruits). So, to be really nitpicky, a fruit could be a vegetable, but a vegetable could not be a fruit.
The Nutriquest team offers a similar answer, adding that most fruits are sweet because they contain a simple sugar called fructose, while most vegetables are less sweet because they have much less fructose. The sweetness of fruit encourages animals to eat it and thereby spread the seeds. The site also presents an interesting list of fruits that are often thought to be vegetables:

tomatoes
cucumbers
squashes and zucchini
avocados
green, red, and yellow peppers
peapods
pumpkins

Answer 5

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Cucumbers are scientifically classified as fruits. Having an enclosed seed, and developing from a flower, botanically speaking, cucumbers are classified as fruits, however, they tend to be seen as vegetables bieng prepared and eaten as such.

Answer 6

Agriculturally, cucumbers are vegetables, but botanically (which is the only correct way hehe), cucumbers are fruits, and strangely enough, berries at that! Agricultural definitions don't make that much sense to me, but tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchinis, eggplants, they are allll fruits! Hurray!

Answer 7

I don't think fruits and vegetables are mutually exclusive. Tomatoes, for example, are both. Fruits refer to a specific plant part, the part that has seeds. Vegetables seem to refer to any plant part that is edible and nonsweet.

Answer 8

Just eat and enjoy your cucumber, whether it be a fruit or vegetable!

Answer 9

Science tells you that cucumbers are fruit. (they enclose the seeds & develop from a flower)
Common Sense tells you not to include them in a fruit salad.

Answer 10

Because cucumbers are green!