Some Say YES & Some Say NO, Would You Say A Tomato Is A Fruit?

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Tomatoes are fruits that are considered vegetables by nutritionists. Botanically, a fruit is a ripened flower ovary and contains seeds. Tomatoes, plums, zucchinis, and melons are all edible fruits, but things like maple “helicopters” and floating dandelion puffs are fruits too.

To Me A Tomato Is A Fruit.

To Me A Tomato Is A Vegetable.

[msmissydc]

Its culinary used as a vegetable. So normally when you talk about a tomato you talk about it in the function of an ingredient, thats why I would go for vegetables.

If you want to talk technical: A tomato plant is a nightshade plant. This is only relevant if you talk about the plant from which the red tomato is the "fruit".

[Static_In_The_Attic]

You are absolutely right & in culinary world a vegetable it is & you can make so many wonderful things with it.

[LavLavLuv]

Vegetruit

[Static_In_The_Attic]

A Vegetruit it is! I love it!

[Craftsman]

Tomato is a vegetable when I put some in salad or on a burger.
Tomato is a fruit when I put it on a peanut butter sandwich, or eat is sun-warmed fresh picked from the vine with a hint of salt as I munch.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Throw a grilled pineapple slice on that burger & life is good.

[Pterodon]

Botanically it’s considered a fruit but it’s eaten as a vegetable

[Static_In_The_Attic]

As for me I eat it as a vegetable as well & I would never put it in a fruit salad.

[strateguy632]

for my fruit means SWEET and even scientificly "fructose" is related to the word fruit but tomato not taste sweet so not fruit. despite any seed vegetable including cucumber undoubtedly vej is the child/fruit of the seed that is not what fruit means to me. it is not tree fruit and not even fruit.

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Hahaha this question brought back memories lol me and my kids and their dad used to argue this all the time… I always said they can call it a fruit all they want, it’s a vegetable to me

[Static_In_The_Attic]

A vegetable I always thought it was until I learned it was actually a fruit, wtf?

[Brainsbeforebeauty]

Right bad enough when argued with my husband but when my younger daughter (probably 7-8 at the time “We’ll technically it’s a fruit mom” I don’t care…I still say VEGETABLE 🤣

[Sevenpointfive]

i think if you want to get technical all fruits and vegetables are considered fruits. vegetable is a made up term for non-sweet fruit. berries is just another classification of a fruit.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Speaking of berries is a pineapple considered a berry, did you ever hear that one?

[PBandJ_Nerd]

In plant biology, it is a fruit. Vegetables is simply a human thing.

[PBandJ_Nerd]

But I think of the tomato as a vegetable personally.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Biology always seems to tell the truth & we should come up with something else instead of calling it a fruit or vegetable.

[sage2021]

They grow on a Vine and are of the vegetable family.

I've never seen a tomato 🍅 in a fruit salad though 🤔

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Tomato salad yes, fruit salad no & now I’m going to have to try putting a tomato in fruit salad.

[sage2021]

**correction** tomatoes are from the fruit family, not vegetable** 🙄

[purplepoppy]

It's a fruit that identifies as a vegetable.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

A tomato in disguise!.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

It's actually more of a fruit because of the way it's formed. There's no vegetables as squishy and seedy as tomatoes that can be eaten raw that comes from a flowering part of a tree. It may be commonly eaten along with vegetables but that doesn't mean it really is one. It is only considered a vegetable by chef or nutritionist when they say "saute the vegetables" or something like that which includes tomatoes and peppers just to keep things shorter and simple.

[Aiko_E_Lara]

Tomatoes aren't even the only fruits that are used in savory dishes. You get tamarind, green mangoes, bilimbi, avocado and sometimes bananas in exotic countries. We can just consider them vegetables just to keep them short. And if tomatoes actually grew in the tropics before it was cultivated, we would be eating them as fruits along with those fruits mentioned.

[NathanDavis]

if you want to get it... you go to the veggies aisle...

not the fruit one

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Good argument & a valid argument on that one as well.

[NathanDavis]

I just moved all the tomatoes and relocated them to the fruit aisle... at my local supermarket

[ShellyB]

I consider it a vegetable but, I thought I read somewhere that it is actually a berry?

[Static_In_The_Attic]

A berry it could be & I’m going to have to look into that one as well & I hear a pineapple is a berry too.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

To Me, A Tomato Is A Vegetable

[Static_In_The_Attic]

That’s what I always thought as well.

[Siri137]

Well, it grows on a tree, and that's what fruit do. How could anyone think that the tomato is a vegetable?

[Likes2drive]

It’s a vegetable to me even though qualifies as a fruit just like an avocado

[Static_In_The_Attic]

A vegetable it is to a lot of people & if fruits have seeds I was thinking about a seedless watermelon.

[Likes2drive]

Or a seedless orange like navel oranges

[Human_M]

It is mostly considered a vegetable where I live.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

I always thought it was a vegetable too.

[Flower7]

Yes because I go by science.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

It’s all about the science & if we went by science nowadays that would fire up a lot of people.

[FunkyMonkee]

I say, no but, I know that it is!

[Static_In_The_Attic]

Exactly & we think alike.

[FunkyMonkee]

Yeah! Let's get married!

[gorydetails]

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing it doesn't belong in a fruit salad. Philosophy is pondering whether ketchup is a smoothie.

[LiamJHayden]

Yes, but I never use it in a fruit salad.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

A tomato salad yes but a fruit salad no, probably too acidic.

[Wise4myage]

Tomatoes have seeds, and that makes them a fruit.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

If fruits have seeds what about a seedless watermelon? Boom!

[Wise4myage]

That's science's fault, lol.

[TheSpaceGnome]

It's a fruit.

[Static_In_The_Attic]

My thoughts exactly due to seeds however what about a seedless watermelon?

[TheSpaceGnome]

Seedless fruit is still fruit, its just sterile fruit.

[Kelly6]

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