Is a tomato a fruit or vege?

Answer 1

a tomato is a fruit. It has more than one seed.

Answer 2

TOMATO FRUIT OR VEGE..............VERY DEBATE-ABLE
An interesting aspect of tomato history is the classic debate: Is the Tomato a Fruit or Vegetable? I guess that depends on whom you are asking. By definition, a fruit is the edible plant structure of a mature ovary of a flowering plant, usually eaten raw; some are sweet like apples, but the ones that are not sweet such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, etc. are commonly called vegetables. Botanists claim that a fruit is any fleshy material that covers a seed or seeds where as a horticulturists point of view would pose that the tomato is a vegetable plant. Until the late 1800's the tomato was classified as a fruit to avoid taxation, but this was changed after a Supreme Court ruling that the tomato is a vegetable and should be taxed accordingly.




www.uga.edu/vegetable/tomato.html

Answer 3

Scientifically speaking, a tomato is definitely a fruit.
True fruits are developed from the ovary in the base of the flower, and contain the seeds of the plant (though cultivated forms may be seedless). Blueberries, raspberries, and oranges are true fruits, and so are many kinds of nut. Some plants have a soft part which supports the seeds and is also called a 'fruit', though it is not developed from the ovary: the strawberry is an example. As far as cooking is concerned, some things which are strictly fruits may be called 'vegetables' because they are used in savoury rather than sweet cooking. The tomato, though technically a fruit, is often used as a vegetable, and a bean pod is also technically a fruit. The term 'vegetable' is more generally used of other edible parts of plants, such as cabbage leaves, celery stalks, and potato tubers, which are not strictly the fruit of the plant from which they come. Occasionally the term 'fruit' may be used to refer to a part of a plant which is not a fruit, but which is used in sweet cooking: rhubarb, for example. So a tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but can be used as a vegetable in cooking.

Answer 4

Fruit

Answer 5

Definately tomato is a fruit but it is better known as a vegetable.

Answer 6

Many people think it's a fruit and many people think it's a vegetable, but to me, it's a fruit regardless of anything, but I just heard on television it is a fruit.

Answer 7

It's a fruit

Answer 8

fruit

Answer 9

Its a Fruit man, It has more than one seed,

Answer 10

technically a fruit but used as a vegetable.