tomato...FRUIT or VEGETABLE??

Answer 1

fruit

Answer 2

Fruit

Answer 3

Fruit

Answer 4

Fruit

Answer 5

Fruit

Answer 6

Tomatoes, like most fruits, grow above the ground, but most vegetables grow in or on the ground. However, a pumpkin could be either a fruit or vegetable because of the taste, yet melons are a fruit, and these all grow on the ground.

Cucumbers, brussel sprouts, aubergines and peppers grow above the ground yet are vegetables.

All the above are picked from the main plant, yet cabbage and lettuce are vegetables and are the plant itself. Yet rhubarb, also part of the main plant, grows on the ground and is a fruit.

So I think it is more down to conventional classification, taste,and use.

Answer 7

OK, technically it's fruit. As others have pointed out, it has seeds.

But not really.

I mean, come on. You know it's a vegetable. Botany textbooks be damned.

I mean almost everything you think of as being a berry isn't a berry at all. Technically.

Technically the 21st Century started in 2001.

But not really.

Give in to common sense. The Tomato is a vegetable, facts be damned!

Answer 8

A tomato is a fruit. Everyone who said that it taste like a veggie? What vegetable are they eating that has that acidic taste to it? Tomatoes have a Good amount of acid as does oranges, lemons, limes, well heck all fruit really!

Answer 9

Its a fruit because it is a seed pod with sugary flesh around to attract birds ( and mammals including us) to eat as this is the way the seeds are spread by birds ( and mammals ) eating the fruit and excreting the seeds

Part of the Solanaceae or nightshade family, its close cousins tobacco, chili peppers, potato, and eggplant.

'Since "vegetable" is not a botanical term, there is no contradiction in a plant part being a fruit botanically while still being considered a vegetable'

Answer 10

Fruit!

Answer 11

Fruit!