Is tomatoe a fruit or vegetable????

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Answer 1

The tomatoe is a vegetable by use but realisticaly it hasn't been defined, please check the reference on the link I am providing you with,

Fruit or vegetable?

Tomato vegetableBotanically speaking, a tomato is the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant: a fruit or, more precisely, a berry. However, from a culinary perspective, the tomato is not as sweet as those foodstuffs usually called fruits and it is typically served as part of a main course of a meal, as are other vegetables, rather than at dessert. As noted above, the term "vegetable" has no botanical meaning and is purely a culinary term.

This argument has led to actual legal implications in the United States, Australia and China. In 1887, U.S. tariff laws that imposed a duty on vegetables but not on fruits caused the tomato's status to become a matter of legal importance. The U.S. Supreme Court settled this controversy in 1893, declaring that the tomato is a vegetable, using the popular definition which classifies vegetable by use, that they are generally served with dinner and not dessert. The case is known as Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304). Strictly speaking, the holding of the case applies only to the interpretation of the Tariff Act of March 3, 1883, and not much else. The court does not purport to reclassify tomato for botanical or for any other purpose other than paying a tax under a tariff act. However, the USDA also considers the tomato a vegetable.

The tomato has been designated the state vegetable of New Jersey. Arkansas takes both sides by declaring the "South Arkansas Vine Ripe Pink Tomato" to be both the state fruit and the state vegetable in the same law, citing both its botanical and culinary classifications. In 2006, the Ohio House of Representatives passed a law that would have declared the tomato to be the official state fruit, but the bill died when the Ohio Senate failed to act on it.

But due to the scientific definition of a fruit and a vegetable, the tomato still remains a fruit when not dealing with tariffs. Nor is it the only culinary vegetable that is a botanical fruit: eggplants, cucumbers, and squashes of all kinds (including zucchini and pumpkins) share the same ambiguity.

The grocers' definition is that a tomato is a vegetable based on the fact that fruits are sweet and vegetables are not.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato

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Answer 2

Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable?

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The confusion about 'fruit' and 'vegetable' arises because of the differences in usage between scientists and cooks. 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 3

a tomato is a fruit and a vegetable because scientist are still arguing about that issue. It has some characteristics of a fruit while it has some characteristics of a vegetables. Its like how different people pronounce it differently. Different people say its a fruit and different people say its a vegetable. One characteristic of a fruit that it has that it has seeds. One characteristic of a vegetable that it has is that it grows from the ground. I hope this helped :)

Answer 4

Fruit

Answer 5

It is a vegetable and I did not find the answer I already know that from knowing my vegetables. The big supermarket will detail it in the store that it is considered to be a vegetable, after all it is found in the section with the other vegetables.

Answer 6

Wikipedia list it as a fruit but that is not
the most credible source. Wikipedia
entries are written by average Joes
just like you and me. Scientist are
arguing back and forth as to which
way to classify it.

My opinion is that it is a fruit because
of it's seeds and it's acidic nature.
I can't think of a vegetable that is
as acidic as a tomato.

Answer 7

Technically its a fruit but most people classify it as a vegetable.

Answer 8

Alot of people will say that a tomato is a vegetable,but technically it is a fruit!! I know a chef and he told me that a tomato is technically a fruit instead of a vegetable!! ;-)

Answer 9

fruit cuz its seeds are found inside
did you know that these 'vegetables' actually fruits too?:
-cucumber
-pepper
ok i cant think of any more right now but thts just cuz its too late for me to be thinking about stuff like this now but I PROMISE there are more!

Answer 10

It's a fruit that we classify as a vegetable, just like peppers, pumpkins, cucumbers and avocados.