is a tomato fruit or vegetable?

Question

i never knew

Answer 1

tomato is a fruit

Answer 2

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?

If the answer is yes, then technically, you have a FRUIT. This, of course, makes your tomato a fruit. It also makes cucumbers, squash, green beans and walnuts all fruits as well. VEGETABLES such as, radishes, celery, carrots, and lettuce do NOT have seeds (that are part of what we eat) and so they are grouped as vegetables.

Now don't go looking for tomatoes next to the oranges in your grocery stores. Certain fruits like tomatoes and green beans will probably always be mostly referred to as "vegetables" in today's society.

Answer 3

Fruit! Lot's of people put it under their vegetable category but it's really a fruit! For some reason I don't think of it as a fruit I think of it as vegetable because fruit s to me I think are sweet. Tomato's Not so much!

Answer 4

It is a fruit, a berry, in fact. The only reason it was ever classified as a vegetable is for tax and tarif reasons. There was no tarif on fruit, only vegetables so the gov classified it a vegetable to make sure they got paid.

Answer 5

Fruit.

Answer 6

Its a fruit!
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letme explain..

just remember a vegetable is something grown from a plant that is a stem, leaf, flower, or root. (Stem- Celery, Leaf-Lettuce, Flower-Broccoli, Root-Carrot, Potato)

and a fruit always has seeds.. and they grow from a flower.
sooooo..
if u've ever seen a tomato plant, its grows a flower first, then the flower reproduces a fruit!
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Answer 7

Tomatos aren't fruits.

They just prefer the company of other tomatoes ;-)

jk they're fruits.

For the record, so are cucumbers, peppers, squashes, etc. Anything with seeds in it is a fruit.

Answer 8

anything that has seeds in it is considered a fruit (this is what my biology teacher told me)...so yes a tomato is a fruit

Answer 9

It's technically a fruit because of it's seeds but part of the reason it is a veggie is because it doesn't really have a sweet taste to it and i think taxes or something.

Answer 10

a fruit