what is a tomato ? a veg or a friut!!. i think its a friut but not sure.?

Answer 1

actually its a member of the fruit family although most people see it as a vegatable.

Answer 2

Why is this such a matter of contention???

Scientifically it is a fruit since it contains the seeds of the plant.

But when talking about cookery or food we use a different definition of fruit and vegetable and usually call anything that is sweet a fruit and anything that is savoury a vegetable.

Different words are used in different circumstances and there is no right answer. Everyone thinks they know the answer but the tomato is neither a fruit nor a vegetable 100% of the time. Regardless of how many exclamation marks you put after your answer!!!

Answer 3

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). 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. So a tomato is the fruit of the tomato plant, but can be used as a vegetable in cooking. Cheers C<

Answer 4

Fruit

Answer 5

Definately A Fruit.

Answer 6

A Fruit

Answer 7

It's a fruit used as a vegetable (along with beans, courgettes, cucumbers etc)
Not to be confused with rhubarb which is a vegetable used as a fruit.
In Portugal, carrots are officially classified as fruit so they can be included in the fruit content of the local speciality carrot jam.

Answer 8

Fruit.

Answer 9

Hello Denny,

Botanically speaking, as has been said a tomato is a fruit because it has seeds. The same could be said for bean pods, cucumbers and squash.

However I know of no one who eats a tomato as a dessert, they are virtually always used as a vegetable and are sold in the vegetable section in stores and supermarkets.

Did you know that the humble tomato was actually taken to court in 1893?

To read about this please go to:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=question143.htm&url=http://www.vegparadise.com/highestperch8.html

or;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nix_v._Hedden

Poseidon

Answer 10

If it had seeds in the middle then it is a fruit, it's a nice easy way of remembering how to tell the difference.


The answer above mine is absolutely correct and a great way of looking at it.

Answer 11

Fruit, (love apple) The potato is sometimes known as a fruit, as it originated from the sweet potato, the Chambers Dictionary describes 'fruit' as being sweet, so this could lead to further argument, not all fruit are sweet ---lemons----rhubarb, for example. I wonder who classified what was fruit and what was vegetable?