Why is a tomato a fruit?

Question

I made myself some vegetable soup and the main ingredient is the tomato. And it made me think of the name, "vegetable soup".

Answer 1

It's a fruit because its seeds reproduce

Answer 2

A Tomato is a fruit because it has seeds. This is an exception to the banana

Answer 3

Tomato might be a vegetable in culinary sense, but scientifically it's a fruit. So are beans, eggplant, cucumber etc... They all are fruits because they are ripened ovaries of flowering plants. (that's the definition of fruit -in science: the ripen ovary of a flowering plant)

The term vegetable is a culinary term. It has no scientific value. How's your soup anyway? Tasty? Well enjoy.......

Answer 4

Technically, a fruit is anything that grows in the ovary of a flower. I tomato grows in the ovary of a flower. Therefore the tomato is considered a fruit.

Answer 5

a fruit is something that uses seeds as its reproductive system, tomatos use seeds to reproduce therefore a tomato is classified as a fruit! =)

Answer 6

it is called a fruit because it has seeds. Anything with seeds is a fruit. this means that cucumbers, peppers and many other foods are also fruit.

Answer 7

Tomato, is not fruit its vegetable

Answer 8

well fruits have seeds

and since a tomato has seeds its a fruit!

as are:
-peppers
-cucumbers
-strawberries!

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Answer 9

anything that has a seed is a fruit.

Answer 10

a tomato has seeds so that classifies it as a frut