Do you think the tomato is a fruit or a vegetable?

[shacodraco]

lets settle it. I think its a vegetable because you can cook with it and it tastes like a vegetable to me.

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+1 y

i had no idea so many people would answer this question. anyway to all the people saying that its officially a fruit, I know it is from a scientific point of view, but I wanted to see what the average person considers it to be. I guess I should have made it more clear originally but I wasn't exactly sober :O. if I wanted the official answer I would have just googled it so stop pulling out your biology degrees to answer a simple question.

[aMuse]

Tomatoes are fruits, that are sometimes categorized as vegetables due to not being sweet. Vegetable is just a broad sweeping term for edible plants. It's more in reference to roots, shoots, and leaves. Fruit is the product of sexual reproduction in angiosperms. They arise from the fertilized ovaries of the flower. Fruits have seeds in them. Thus a tomato is a fruit.

[Yeahhbro]

It is a fruit because it comes from a tree from the top. Vegetables on the other hand are vegetables because their plant are not tall at all and they are close to the ground.

This is the scientific term...taste has little to do with it...because if that is the case, should sweet potatoes be frutis because they are sweet? What about baby carrots?

[Deft_maiden]

By your logic then all melons are vegetables ? O:O

[Yeahhbro]

Actually melons are considered vegetables because they come from the same family of pumpkins and squash

[Deft_maiden]

I see. And cucumbers?

[Yeahhbro]

cucumbers are fruits!

[hungergames22]

Scientifically, it's categorized as a fruit. But seriously, can you make marinara sauce from a grape? I answered "other," mainly because I wanted to be different. Like the tomato :)

[sweet_18]

It's a magical fruit

[Xx_DRE_xX]

It doesn't really taste sweet to me except for when its made as ketup and we aswell tend to put that in salty things like fries or burgers. when its diced, usually goes in things like Burrtios, Deli Subs, Salads & stews. So seeingit as a fruit is beyond me.

[Anonymous]

i don't think, I KNOW it is a fruit, biologically it is an ovary. :) most fruits that are round with seeds inside or one big seed inside are actually female plant ovaries, hence they house the 'seed' ...the flower parts are the male parts often have have pollen 'sperm' stored in them.

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[Opinion Owner]

avacados taste like a vegetable too but they are scientifically a fruit, and even further classified as a berry.

[shacodraco]

nopenopenopnope. I don't know I guess I'll always consider it a veggie

[Opinion Owner]

well stfu then and stop asking a question here if you already know your answer. uneducated rat.

[shacodraco]

LOL you need to chill out.

[Opinion Owner]

true, sorry for lashing out, but yea saying 'nopenopenopenope' is rude too and really frustrates the other party when they're just trying to help ya know? esp when they have a degree in biology o.O its like why ask the question to 'settle' it if you're just going to say 'nopenopenope..'?

[Betwyn]

+1 for "well stfu then and stop asking a question here if you already know your answer. uneducated rat." LMAO

[msdan12]

+ one love uneducated rat insult!LOL

[Opinion Owner]

lol! <3

[jmr2191]

Ask an geneticist and they will tell you that a tomato is a fruit, as is a green pepper. If it has seeds, it's a fruit. Vegetables have a different method of fertilization than fruits.

[vishna]

The only fruit I can eat the flesh of and enjoy.

It's a fruit...if someone asks I would say fruit...way back when I thought it was a veggie..but way now now I deem it fruit :D

[Cool-Relax]

Tomatoes are classified as fruit. What's to settle? That's already been done.

[cazza3]

Its a fruit, it contains its own seed. You can cook with coconut, raisins, olives, orange, ginger,pumpkin, etc, etc.

[cazza3]

Jebus some people take a frivolous question way too seriously.

If someone asks I say tomato is a fruit but I really don't consider it as a fruit or a vegetable. As far as I'm concerned I like them, they taste good, call it whatever the f*** you want to call it.

[DutchAtheist]

Botanically, it is a fruit.

Gastronomically, it is a vegetable.

Since I'm a man of science I'm sticking with fruit.

[Anonymous]

You asked a question and people were nice about answering it , Everyone didn't have to look the answer up . I already knew , Don't ask questions if your going to be rude and drunk.

[IHateMeganFox]

I've always considered it a vegetable although I know it technically is a fruit.

[SilentTearsz]

Hey,

It's a fruit because it has seeds in it. But I'm still refering to it as a veg.

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

I KNOW it's a fruit. It's a freaking fact. Anyone who says otherwise is just ignorant.

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

btw, technically, there is no such thing as a vegetable. All things have seeds or are seeds. If there aren't seeds for plants, they don't reproduce.

[Transgressionista]

I know its not, but to me it will always be a vegetable

[Anonymous]

In a scientific sense anything that contains a seed and is the product of a plant is a fruit. Therefore squash and greenbeans and peas are fruit too,scientifically. The vegetables are the other parts of the plants suck as the leaves, stems and roots. But in a culinary and grocery aspect a tomato is a vegetable.

[Opinion Owner]

In response to your update I'm sorry you're dumber than the rest of us.

[shacodraco]

Okay thanks

[Opinion Owner]

Its really obnoxious when you ask a question and bitch about the answers. And by the way it doesn't take a biology degree to learn a tomato is technically a fruit, it's something you learn in grade school genius.

[shacodraco]

I hate to be rude on here but you are dumb as f***. Obviously you can't comprehend English or you would have understood from the update that I already knew it was a fruit to begin with. And also I wasn't bitching about any of the answers (I didn't even respond to most of them). I would usually at this point write a long three paragraph or more treatise on the flow dynamics of the sand in your vagina, but unfortunately I am pressed for time. Come out of anon if you want to continue this. KBYE

[Opinion Owner]

Go get drunk and ask some more stupid questions

[shacodraco]

I was actually high not drunk. Anyway I am done with you. You have some serious psycho-bitch issues that you should probably get checked out. If you won't show your face on here at least send me a message so I can block you.

[Opinion Owner]

You have some serious retard issues. You should prob stop doing drugs. It doesn't seem you have many brain cells left.

[Anonymous]

its fruit. I couldn't care less if it tastes like vegetable 'cause there are other fruits that taste weirder.

[Anonymous]

I use to think it was a vegetable, But a teacher told me it's considered a fruit. If it has a seed in it , It will be considered a fruit .

[LonelyandInTheDark]

I love love love tomatoes. I think it fits as a vegetable because of the reasons you gave, I eat it like a fruit as well...

[Anonymous]

well I guess it's really a fruit but I always thought it was a vegetable before I found out it was a fruit. Call it what you want, I don't think it matters.

[dudeman]

vegetable is a culinary term, there is no such thing as a vegetable scientifically

[dudeman]

even what we call fruit isn't really fruit its hypanthamom

[TheGodEmperorLeto]

This is truth.

Everything has a seed or is a seed. Scientifically there's no such thing as a vegetable.

[dudeman]

its weird the seed is technically the fruit the meaty part of the fruit is the hypanthumum and that's what we usually associate as fruit

[doctorwhofan23]

It is a fruit by definition but that does not mean it will go in a fruit solid lol

[josesmaf]

Goes well with vegetables, but I've been told it's a fruit.