What about a tomato makes it a fruit?

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Answer 1

a tomato has seeds in it all fruits have seeds in them

Answer 2

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 3

It is the swollen ovary of the tomato plant and has seeds in it.

Most fruit plants bloom and are then pollinated. The fruit develops just behind where the flower was.

Many vegetables are botanically fruits but are classified by grocers based on usage.

Answer 4

Actually a tomato is more of a berry due to the fact that it grows on a vine and contains seeds.

Answer 5

Then seeds make it a fruit.
l don't remember where l read about it but l also remember that the banana is also a fruit along with the avocado. l mean, you think you've seen it all and then something like that comes along and hits you, right?
lol

Answer 6

Have you ever bitten into a raw tomato? They're delicious any way you eat them: stir fried, raw, chopped up and thrown into a Cesar salad... I don't think this is a scientifically accurate answer but it makes perfect sense to me. :)

Answer 7

The way the seeds are transported

Answer 8

it has seeds which makes it technically an ovary of a plant...which produce fruits...not veggies

Answer 9

i didnt know it was a fruit i thought it was a vegetable

Answer 10

-it has seeds

-it grows on a vine

-it has parasites

-and it sometimes tastes sweet [the juice] which other veggies cannot taste sweet--:)