is tomato a fruit or vegetable?

Question

I know the answer just want to know what you have to say. I will place the correct answer after everyone answers so you can see who's right or wrong.

Answer: Depends. Fruit is a science term, vegetable is a culinary term. Fruits can be considered vegetables and vegetables can be considered fruits. A fruit has seeds, a vegetable is a plant, or part of a plant, that we eat. An apple can be called a vegetable. It all depends on if your a cook or scientist. Although in 1883 the supreme court ruled that a tomato is a vegetable.

Its both. To really figure out if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable, you need to know what makes a fruit a fruit, and a vegetable a vegetable. The big question to ask is, DOES IT HAVE SEEDS?

Vegetable is a culinary term. Its definition has no scientific value and is somewhat arbitrary and subjective. All parts of herbaceous plants eaten as food by humans, whole or in part, are generally considered vegetables. Mushrooms, though belonging to the biological kingdom, fungi, are also commonly considered vegetables…Since ‘vegetable’ is not a botanical term, there is no contradiction in referring to a plant part as a fruit while also being considered a vegetable. Given this general rule of thumb, vegetables can include leaves (lettuce), stems (asparagus), roots (carrots), flowers (broccoli), bulbs (garlic), seeds (peas and beans) and of course the botanical fruits like cucumbers, squash, and capsicums.

http://vegetablegardens.suite101.com/article.cfm/fruit_or_vegetable_

Answer 1

It is a fruit if you it whole, it is a vegetable if you add other veggies with it. there is no right or wrong answer.

Answer 2

Hi,

This plant which comes from America is a fruit.

People use it often raw as an entrée though and with salt on it. Usually, you would rather put sugar on a fruit, but not this one. It is true it looks like a vegetable, but it is not one.

Unless it is ketchup which uses sugar too, mostly the other sauces made of tomatoe will be added salt.

Answer 3

Fruit

Answer 4

It could be both because it has seeds and that makes it a fruit but my dietician told me to think of it as a vegetable.

Answer 5

A fruit, it has seeds but it is eaten as a vegetable and treated as a vegetable, such as we eat it salty and never sweet.

Answer 6

It's supposed to be a fruit I hear. But, in my mind & in the mind of others, we eat it like it is a vegetable as in salads, etc.

Answer 7

I have been telling people in the politcal section that this is what we talk about in the food section all week. LOL

Its legally a vegetable in the USA, but technically a fruit.

So ask yourself, are you a lawyer or are you a botanist.

Answer 8

It's a fruit that we identify as a vegetable, just like peppers, pumpkins, cucumbers, and avocado just to name a few.

Answer 9

Fruit, because it is an ovarian, meaning seeds are inside.
That is the practical definition.

Answer 10

its a fruit since it tastes like 1 and also looks like one and also feels like 1...