Is tomatoes a fruit or vegetable?

Question

some people tell me fruit and others tell me vegetable...

Answer 1

fruit. fruits ripen and veggies dont.

Answer 2

Tomatoes are technically a friut, not a vegetable. The tomato meets the classification of a fruit due to having seeds and the tomato plant is considered a "flowering" plant. The reason most people think of it as a vegetable is due to the highly acidic content of the juice - it doesn't taste "sweet" like an apple or orange (even though citrus fruits are highly acidic, too) - and how it is used in most recipes - you don't hear to many soups made from apple sauce, or sandwiches topped with pear slices.

Answer 3

Botanically the Tomato is a fruit. In 1893 Jon Nix et al were fruit importers (or so they thought). They sued New York customs collector Edward Hedden to recover duties "paid under protest" on the import of tomatoes from the West Indies. At the time, vegetables required a 10 percent tariff. Fruits were imported duty-free. In other words Nix said tomatoes were fruit (no duty) and Hedden said they're vegetables (pay me big boy)!

So, they went to court, the Supreme Court. After arguments were presented Justice Gray ruled that because tomatoes where known as and used as vegetables, that's what they were...vegetables! Nix got Nixed!

Answer 4

It's both, actually - the categories are not mutually exclusive. In the case of tomatoes being a fruit, it refers to the scientific classification of the part of the plant (the tomato fruit being the ovary of a flowering plant). "Vegetable" is a culinary term categorizing by the taste and general usage. Since people usually use the word "fruit" in the culinary sense and not the botanical sense, they think fruits and vegetables are opposites, hence the confusion.
(Avocadoes, cucumbers, and many other vegetables are also fruits as well.)

Answer 5

it is a fruit. If it has seeds or a pit then its a fruit. If is does not have anything it is a vegetable (like carrots of raddishes) You will be surprised to find that some produce that you think is a vegetable is indeed a fruit.

Answer 6

Well,by searching the internet i have found out that tomatoe is a FRUIT.I know this because it said on the internet that a tomatoe is a fruit because a tomatoe does have seeds.Any other thing without seeds are vegetables.

Answer 7

speaking scientifically, its a fruit. But the government ruled it a vegetable to make things simple.

Answer 8

Technically, I'm pretty sure they're fruit, but they're treated more like a vegetable.

Answer 9

Tomatoes are classified as a fruit.

Answer 10

It's a fruit because of the seeds

Answer 11

Technically a fruit!